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12/23/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Andre Wehrle
Dates:10/11/2003 - 9/30/2024
Album Info:Canadian National's former Wisconsin Central LTD lines from Stevens Point westward; including ex-Soo Line, Milwaukee Road, and GBW trackage.
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BLE 866 paired with IC 9566, and a lone ballast hopper presumably awaiting a RIP
Title:  BLE 866 paired with IC 9566, and a lone ballast hopper presumably awaiting a RIP
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Photo Date:  9/30/2023  Upload Date: 10/2/2023 6:05:32 PM
Location:  Wisconsin Rapids, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  BLE 866(SD38AC) IC 9566(GP38-2)
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"Humpback" end of GECX 2029
Title:  "Humpback" end of GECX 2029
Description:  This gives the Tier 4 GEVOs a distinctive look apart from their Evolution Series predecessors. Also note the two-chime back-up horn. Some newer EMDs, such as the Tier 4 SD70ACes, also have them, along with the CP GP20C-ECOs, although I have yet to hear a crew actually use one in place of the main horn when operating the unit long-hood-forward.
Photo Date:  9/30/2023  Upload Date: 10/2/2023 6:06:00 PM
Location:  Wisconsin Rapids, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  GECX 2029(ET44AC) GECX 2029(ET44AC) GTW 6221(GP38-2)
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GTW 6221 rolls up to the west end
Title:  GTW 6221 rolls up to the west end
Description:  After the morning L518 Biron mill run, the crew (or another, perhaps the L558 Necedah turn) performed other work with this unit throughout the day while I was chasing L581 to Wausau and back.
Photo Date:  9/30/2023  Upload Date: 10/2/2023 6:06:48 PM
Location:  Wisconsin Rapids, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  GTW 6221(GP38-2)
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M344 creaks around the curve on the connection to the Whitehall Sub (ex-GBW)
Title:  M344 creaks around the curve on the connection to the Whitehall Sub (ex-GBW)
Description:  The ex-GBW main continues to the right (east), but stub-ends just west of the former 17th Ave. N crossing (south of the two existing RR crossings on that road). About 2,800' of the line is removed up to just east of 10th Ave. N, where a tiny stub formed by the southwest quadrant connecting track to the ex-MILW Valley Sub still exists for some reason. Then the line is removed through the former location of the diamond (done almost immediately upon the acquision of the GBW/FRVR by WC in 1993). Additional connecting tracks on the east side of the ex-MILW line allow for service as far as Plover.
Photo Date:  9/30/2023  Upload Date: 10/2/2023 6:07:29 PM
Location:  Wisconsin Rapids, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CN 2275(ES44DC) CN 2770(ES44AC)
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Butt-end first, CN 2275 enters the Whitehall Sub approaching 25th Ave. N with M344
Title:  Butt-end first, CN 2275 enters the Whitehall Sub approaching 25th Ave. N with M344
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Photo Date:  9/30/2023  Upload Date: 10/2/2023 6:08:22 PM
Location:  Wisconsin Rapids, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CN 2275(ES44DC)
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Whitehall Sub Sunset
Title:  Whitehall Sub Sunset
Description:  Walker is an unincorported community, technically located one crossing east of here, about halfway between Wis. Rapids and Dexterville along the ex-GBW.
Photo Date:  9/30/2023  Upload Date: 10/2/2023 6:09:35 PM
Location:  Walker, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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M344 flies west into the dusk, crossing County Highway D between cranberry bogs
Title:  M344 flies west into the dusk, crossing County Highway D between cranberry bogs
Description:  This part of the Whitehall Sub (ex-GBW main) runs through the heart of west-central Wisconsin cranberry country. On Google Maps, I see three cranberry farms within two miles of this spot. According to the USDA, as of 2016 Wisconsin produced 64% of the nation's cranberries.
Photo Date:  9/30/2023  Upload Date: 10/2/2023 6:10:23 PM
Location:  Walker, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CN 2275(ES44DC)
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WC freight
Title:  WC freight
Description:  Videotaping the eastbound WC freight through Junction City. My mother took the still photos while I videotaped.
Photo Date:  10/11/2003  Upload Date: 9/17/2006 12:56:56 AM
Location:  Junction City, WI
Author:  Jennifer Heise
Categories:  RollingStock
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