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Viewing Album:  Janesville 2019-2023
 
By:Andre Wehrle
Dates:4/26/2019 - 12/31/2023
Album Info:WSOR provides the vast majority of the train action in the rail hub of Rock County. It remains an interesting regional railroad under Watco ownership although there have been quite a few changes. UP serves a few industries around town and runs the occasional unit grain train through to the Landmark Co-op at Evansville via their Harvard Sub from Proviso, although their traffic is a shell of what it was before the GM plant closed in 2008. CP makes cameo appearances via their ex-SOO/IMRL/IC&E branch line up from Davis Jct./Rockford, IL.
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UP local shoves down the old C&NW Afton line to work Evonik
Title:  UP local shoves down the old C&NW Afton line to work Evonik
Description:  Passing under the WSOR's Fox Lake Sub. They'll pause here while the conductor walks ahead to open the gate and derail.
Photo Date:  1/22/2021  Upload Date: 1/24/2021 1:58:46 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  38   Comments: 0
Shoving in the tank cars for Evonik
Title:  Shoving in the tank cars for Evonik
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Photo Date:  1/22/2021  Upload Date: 1/24/2021 2:02:47 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1107(GP60)
Views:  93   Comments: 0
Shoving across Rockport Road and into Evonik
Title:  Shoving across Rockport Road and into Evonik
Description:  UP seems to be doing everything around the Janesville area of late with the same trio of GP60s - 1107, 1145 and 1025.
Photo Date:  1/22/2021  Upload Date: 1/24/2021 2:08:08 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1107(GP60)
Views:  144   Comments: 0
Shoving into the Evonik complex
Title:  Shoving into the Evonik complex
Description:  The chemical plant has been here since 1957 under various names. It took them about an hour and 20 minutes of shuffling tank cars to set out two and pull one (the one closest to the power was the same coming in and going out). There are four stub tracks within the plant, one of which is the old main.
Photo Date:  1/22/2021  Upload Date: 1/24/2021 2:14:25 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1107(GP60)
Views:  105   Comments: 0
Still switching Evonik
Title:  Still switching Evonik
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/22/2021  Upload Date: 1/24/2021 2:17:58 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1107(GP60)
Views:  102   Comments: 0
Pulling through the gate out of Evonik
Title:  Pulling through the gate out of Evonik
Description:  Only the rearmost tank car was picked up, the CALX 1011 closest to the power was with them when they arrived.
Photo Date:  1/22/2021  Upload Date: 1/24/2021 2:29:19 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1107(GP60)
Views:  90   Comments: 0
Pausing while the conductor closes the derail
Title:  Pausing while the conductor closes the derail
Description:  The motorized sliding gate that prevents trespassers from wandering into the Evonik facility will close automatically moments after the train leaves.
Photo Date:  1/22/2021  Upload Date: 1/24/2021 2:31:04 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1107(GP60)
Views:  153   Comments: 0
T004 comes around the wye and enters the Fox Lake Sub
Title:  T004 comes around the wye and enters the Fox Lake Sub
Description:  I'd thought the five-unit power move I'd seen coming into town from the north earlier was T004, so I was surprised to hear this train announce their approach to town. I can't imagine 4174 was their only power out of Horicon, but 4180 and 4170 were picked up from the fuel ramp here in Janesville.
Photo Date:  1/22/2021  Upload Date: 1/24/2021 2:33:07 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4174(SD40-2)
Views:  101   Comments: 0
40 Years Safely Serving Our Communities With Pride
Title:  40 Years Safely Serving Our Communities With Pride
Description:  I really like this 40th Anniversary scheme and really wanted to catch it as soon as I saw the first photos of it. Notable features are the gray roof, Watco logos on the sides and end of the long hood, and white stripes on the rear plow. Notably lacking (and a telltale sign that this wasn't done at Horicon) are the "YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AND THE OBLIGATION TO WORK SAFELY" notices that were above the steps on all red and gray repaints prior to this and 4197.
Photo Date:  1/22/2021  Upload Date: 1/24/2021 2:35:52 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4170(SD40-2)
Views:  355   Comments: 0
Going-away shot
Title:  Going-away shot
Description:  Of course would rather it was leading, but we can still see the straight striping (rather like NS' "Catfish Whiskers") and red goose logo (only the second one on the roster with that, after 4219) on the short hood. Kind of unusual for WSOR units to have the horn midway along the long hood as well, most have it mounted on top of the cab.
Photo Date:  1/22/2021  Upload Date: 1/24/2021 2:37:28 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  162   Comments: 0
Crossing Delavan Drive
Title:  Crossing Delavan Drive
Description:  Track in the foreground once passed through the (now demolished) GM plant, and was used by C&NW and MILW to switch the plant (in more recent years, only UP served it until its closure).
Photo Date:  1/22/2021  Upload Date: 1/24/2021 2:40:01 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4174(SD40-2)
Views:  69   Comments: 0
Parting shot of WAMX 4170 as it trails on another trip to BRC Clearing
Title:  Parting shot of WAMX 4170 as it trails on another trip to BRC Clearing
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/22/2021  Upload Date: 1/24/2021 2:43:00 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4170(SD40-2)
Views:  172   Comments: 0
WAMX 4192 is bathed in winter evening golden light
Title:  WAMX 4192 is bathed in winter evening golden light
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/22/2021  Upload Date: 1/24/2021 2:45:21 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4192(SD40M-2)
Views:  125   Comments: 0
YJA65 on the "loop" off Beloit Avenue
Title:  YJA65 on the "loop" off Beloit Avenue
Description:  It's not possible to see much detail of UP's ex-C&NW South Janesville Yard from the ground, but from the satellite view one can see there's a loop track on the west end which has a spur off it to serve Seneca Foods; crosses over one of the yard leads on a diamond, used to form one leg of a wye (the other leg is stubbed off, with the switch removed) and encircles a few stub-ended RIP tracks which pass through the area where the roundhouse and turntable used to be. Chase of this train continues in the album "UP Harvard Subdivision State Line-S. Janesville."
Photo Date:  2/21/2021  Upload Date: 2/28/2021 8:21:53 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  123   Comments: 1
Y301 drills the yard
Title:  Y301 drills the yard
Description:  The UP local beat me to Tiffany, so I headed back into Janesville to see what was doing on the WSOR. This yard job with the WAMX 4175 (ex-4006) pulled the two tank cars immediately behind the power off the cut and shoved them down to the UP interchange.
Photo Date:  2/21/2021  Upload Date: 2/28/2021 8:26:36 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  101   Comments: 0
Finally got a good look at WAMX 4023
Title:  Finally got a good look at WAMX 4023
Description:  This ex-CN widecab Geep is reportedly in for repairs, and not destined for long-term service on the WSOR system. It was previously based on Watco's Stillwater Central Railroad in Oklahoma.
Photo Date:  2/21/2021  Upload Date: 2/28/2021 8:27:46 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  227   Comments: 1
WAMX 4181
Title:  WAMX 4181
Description:  One of the two ex-BN SD40-2s (then still in Cascade Green) purchased in late 2011, the last "new" motive power acquisition by the Gardner-era WSOR. Previously WSOR 4012.
Photo Date:  4/22/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:37:25 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4181(SD40-2)
Views:  130   Comments: 0
WAMX 4186/3928 switch tracks
Title:  WAMX 4186/3928 switch tracks
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/22/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:39:02 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4186(SD40-2)
Views:  115   Comments: 0
WAMX 4178/4187
Title:  WAMX 4178/4187
Description:  The usual gaggle of red and gray geese.
Photo Date:  4/22/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:40:47 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4178(SD40-2) WAMX 4187(SD40-2)
Views:  242   Comments: 0
WAMX 3928
Title:  WAMX 3928
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/22/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:41:21 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  67   Comments: 0
T004 power runs light north at US 14/Kennedy
Title:  T004 power runs light north at US 14/Kennedy
Description:  Heading to grab their train and switch at the Rotamer siding.
Photo Date:  5/1/2021  Upload Date: 5/8/2021 8:46:23 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4192(SD40M-2)
Views:  254   Comments: 0
Red and gray trio recedes to the north (RR west)
Title:  Red and gray trio recedes to the north (RR west)
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/2021  Upload Date: 5/8/2021 8:46:44 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4173(SD40-2)
Views:  106   Comments: 0
Crossing the Rock
Title:  Crossing the Rock
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/2021  Upload Date: 5/8/2021 8:49:25 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4173(SD40-2)
Views:  110   Comments: 0
Approaching Delavan Drive
Title:  Approaching Delavan Drive
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/2021  Upload Date: 5/8/2021 8:49:40 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4173(SD40-2)
Views:  120   Comments: 0
Crossing Delavan Drive
Title:  Crossing Delavan Drive
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/2021  Upload Date: 5/8/2021 8:50:47 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4173(SD40-2)
Views:  103   Comments: 0
WAMX 4197
Title:  WAMX 4197
Description:  The newest addition to the red and gray brigade. They are no longer done at Horicon, sadly (note the misaligned long hood text, bunched up too close to the end, and lack of "YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AND THE OBLIGATION TO WORK SAFELY" decals above the steps).
Photo Date:  5/1/2021  Upload Date: 5/8/2021 8:51:25 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4197(SD40-2)
Views:  208   Comments: 0
One of a long string of flat cars in T004's train bearing Marine Corps. JLTVs built in Oshkosh
Title:  One of a long string of flat cars in T004's train bearing Marine Corps. JLTVs built in Oshkosh
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/2021  Upload Date: 5/8/2021 8:51:47 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  51   Comments: 0
The Backwards Parade
Title:  The Backwards Parade
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/2021  Upload Date: 5/8/2021 8:52:04 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  41   Comments: 0
One, two, three, four, United States Marine Corps!
Title:  One, two, three, four, United States Marine Corps!
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/2021  Upload Date: 5/8/2021 8:52:18 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  50   Comments: 0
UP 7601 rounds the curve behind Mercy Hospital with Evansville grain loads
Title:  UP 7601 rounds the curve behind Mercy Hospital with Evansville grain loads
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/23/2021  Upload Date: 11/23/2021 10:54:36 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  77   Comments: 0
UP 7601 hugs the river behind Mercy Hospital
Title:  UP 7601 hugs the river behind Mercy Hospital
Description:  On the ex-C&NW line from Madison.
Photo Date:  11/23/2021  Upload Date: 11/23/2021 10:54:47 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  77   Comments: 0
Grain loads cross the Rock
Title:  Grain loads cross the Rock
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/23/2021  Upload Date: 11/24/2021 3:08:53 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 3915(SD70M) UP 6787(AC44CW) UP 7601(AC45CCTE)
Views:  57   Comments: 0
Grain train crossing Beloit Avenue and about to enter the UP yard
Title:  Grain train crossing Beloit Avenue and about to enter the UP yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/23/2021  Upload Date: 11/24/2021 3:09:31 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 7601(AC45CCTE)
Views:  90   Comments: 0
Relative newcomers on the fuel ramp
Title:  Relative newcomers on the fuel ramp
Description:  4196 is the latest red and gray repaint. I wasn't aware the ex-UP SD60M group extended north of the 602Xs. Unlike those, 6031 is the dual-pane windshield variant (as opposed to the "Triclops").
Photo Date:  11/23/2021  Upload Date: 11/24/2021 3:10:03 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4196(SD40-2) WAMX 6031(SD60M)
Views:  228   Comments: 1
WAMX 4196 has joined its former Hammond mate 4197 as part of the red and gray brigade
Title:  WAMX 4196 has joined its former Hammond mate 4197 as part of the red and gray brigade
Description:  Currently the latest to receive the red and gray dip (one can hope the SD60Ms will be joining them sometime soon). It and 4197 were previously in service at Watco's transload facility in Hammond, IN wearing their generic black and yellow scheme.
Photo Date:  11/23/2021  Upload Date: 11/24/2021 3:10:56 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4196(SD40-2) WAMX 6026(SD60M)
Views:  148   Comments: 0
T003 staged in the yard west of Arch St. with nary a red and gray goose to be found
Title:  T003 staged in the yard west of Arch St. with nary a red and gray goose to be found
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/23/2021  Upload Date: 11/24/2021 3:11:15 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 6022(SD60M) HLCX 6313(SD40-2)
Views:  294   Comments: 0
T003 emerges from the twilight glow as it creeps through the yard
Title:  T003 emerges from the twilight glow as it creeps through the yard
Description:  Despite the FRED on the cut of cars second from right, there was no power on the other end.
Photo Date:  11/23/2021  Upload Date: 11/24/2021 3:13:53 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 6022(SD60M)
Views:  123   Comments: 0
Roaring across Rotamer in the last glow of twilight
Title:  Roaring across Rotamer in the last glow of twilight
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/23/2021  Upload Date: 11/24/2021 3:14:53 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 6022(SD60M)
Views:  143   Comments: 0
Squeezing between the Rock River and Mercy Hospital
Title:  Squeezing between the Rock River and Mercy Hospital
Description:  Next shot in in sequence from the chase of this train that began in the album "UP Harvard Subdivision - Evansville Spur."
Photo Date:  7/19/2022  Upload Date: 7/22/2022 2:14:16 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1166(GP60)
Views:  58   Comments: 0
Hugging the west bank of the Rock
Title:  Hugging the west bank of the Rock
Description:  Unlike my photos from last November, you can't see the river due to the leafed-out trees.
Photo Date:  7/19/2022  Upload Date: 7/22/2022 2:14:57 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1166(GP60)
Views:  67   Comments: 0
Five out of six units visible on the bridge
Title:  Five out of six units visible on the bridge
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/19/2022  Upload Date: 7/22/2022 2:15:38 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1166(GP60) UP 1107(GP60) UP 6771(AC44CW) UP 5047(SD70M)
Views:  73   Comments: 0
WAMX 4223 & 4219
Title:  WAMX 4223 & 4219
Description:  Per usual...the WSOR power I'm particularly interested in catching is parked when I go trackside on the railroad. If I catch a train moving it's almost always the same two (4171 or 4173) or a p***brick SD60M leading.
Photo Date:  10/21/2022  Upload Date: 10/31/2022 7:01:03 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4223(SD40M-2)
Views:  84   Comments: 0
WAMX 6029 being serviced
Title:  WAMX 6029 being serviced
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/21/2022  Upload Date: 10/31/2022 7:06:13 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 6029(SD60M)
Views:  105   Comments: 0
40th Anniversary unit heads to tie up
Title:  40th Anniversary unit heads to tie up
Description:  Just ran light east after doing some switching in the yard west of Arch St.
Photo Date:  10/26/2022  Upload Date: 10/31/2022 7:16:19 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4170(SD40-2) WAMX 4180(SD40-2)
Views:  132   Comments: 0
UP local switching Evonik
Title:  UP local switching Evonik
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/26/2022  Upload Date: 10/31/2022 7:16:52 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1166(GP60)
Views:  46   Comments: 0
Pulling toward Rockport Road to clear a switch
Title:  Pulling toward Rockport Road to clear a switch
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/26/2022  Upload Date: 10/31/2022 7:17:55 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1166(GP60)
Views:  54   Comments: 0
Still switching Evonik in the horrible backlighting
Title:  Still switching Evonik in the horrible backlighting
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/26/2022  Upload Date: 10/31/2022 7:18:37 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1166(GP60)
Views:  57   Comments: 0
Well over an hour of shuffling the tank cars at Evonik just to pull one
Title:  Well over an hour of shuffling the tank cars at Evonik just to pull one
Description:  There are four tracks that stub-end within the Evonik property, one of which is the old main (former C&NW line to Beloit) and two of which are spurs into the plant itself.
Photo Date:  10/26/2022  Upload Date: 10/31/2022 7:19:54 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1166(GP60)
Views:  69   Comments: 0
WAMX 4196 would appear to once again be a long-term resident
Title:  WAMX 4196 would appear to once again be a long-term resident
Description:  It was in the exact same spot when I was in Janesville five days earlier. Shortly after being painted in the fall of 2021, it sat (facing west) on the end of the fuel ramp at the south side of the roundhouse for several months. It was in service for a few months in the spring/summer of this year (of course I never caught it) but would seem to once again be parked.
Photo Date:  10/26/2022  Upload Date: 10/31/2022 7:20:31 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4196(SD40-2)
Views:  128   Comments: 0
UP 1166 shoves the Evonik pickup down to the interchange
Title:  UP 1166 shoves the Evonik pickup down to the interchange
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/26/2022  Upload Date: 10/31/2022 7:21:20 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1166(GP60)
Views:  63   Comments: 0

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