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Viewing Album:  WSOR Waterloo Subdivision
 
By:Andre Wehrle
Dates:12/29/2006 - 12/29/2023
Album Info:WSOR and CP (Or CPKC, since April 2023) trains on this rickety ex-Milwaukee Road branchline that connects Madison with Watertown. WSOR serves the local industries from the east side of Madison to Clasen Quality Choclate in Watertown; CP has trackage rights for ballast trains to the Michels transload site just east of Waterloo.
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SOO 61092
Title:  SOO 61092
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/8/2018  Upload Date: 6/10/2018 9:25:03 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
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Views:  43   Comments: 0
Shoving back to pick up the conductor
Title:  Shoving back to pick up the conductor
Description:  The first of several telephoto shots I took on this chase in which this line's undulating profile is quite apparent.
Photo Date:  6/8/2018  Upload Date: 6/10/2018 9:25:57 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6011(SD40-2)
Views:  224   Comments: 0
"0730 Transfer" ready to roll with 62 loads of rocks
Title:  "0730 Transfer" ready to roll with 62 loads of rocks
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/8/2018  Upload Date: 6/10/2018 9:26:58 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6073(SD40-2)
Views:  93   Comments: 1
Cresting one rise, into the next dip
Title:  Cresting one rise, into the next dip
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/8/2018  Upload Date: 6/10/2018 9:38:40 PM
Location:  Hubbleton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6073(SD40-2)
Views:  74   Comments: 0
Ambling through the greenery
Title:  Ambling through the greenery
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/8/2018  Upload Date: 6/10/2018 9:41:13 PM
Location:  Hubbleton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6073(SD40-2)
Views:  62   Comments: 1
Approaching County Rd. G
Title:  Approaching County Rd. G
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/8/2018  Upload Date: 6/10/2018 9:41:59 PM
Location:  Hubbleton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6073(SD40-2)
Views:  70   Comments: 1
Crossing County Rd. G
Title:  Crossing County Rd. G
Description:  There are three signalized grade crossings on the line between the ballast transload and the junction with the main at Watertown. Two of them are some of the few remaining in southern Wisconsin, even on branch lines, with the old-school 8" diameter incandescent lights.
Photo Date:  6/8/2018  Upload Date: 6/10/2018 9:42:59 PM
Location:  Hubbleton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6073(SD40-2)
Views:  102   Comments: 0
Ballast train drifts through thx farm country of Jefferson County
Title:  Ballast train drifts through thx farm country of Jefferson County
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/8/2018  Upload Date: 6/11/2018 2:04:21 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6073(SD40-2)
Views:  73   Comments: 0
Not-so-thrillini roller coaster ride
Title:  Not-so-thrillini roller coaster ride
Description:  The lallast train power rises out of yet another dip in the line as it approaches Gypsy Road.
Photo Date:  6/8/2018  Upload Date: 6/11/2018 2:05:49 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6073(SD40-2)
Views:  76   Comments: 1
CP 6073, 6011 and the ballast train approaching Gypsy Road
Title:  CP 6073, 6011 and the ballast train approaching Gypsy Road
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/8/2018  Upload Date: 6/11/2018 2:06:33 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6073(SD40-2)
Views:  1003   Comments: 1
An inbound Waterloo branch train parked at Twin Lane Road
Title:  An inbound Waterloo branch train parked at Twin Lane Road
Description:  The train was left here after a catastrophic gas explosion in downtown Sun Prairie the previous evening.
Photo Date:  7/11/2018  Upload Date: 7/21/2018 7:00:32 PM
Location:  Sun Prairie, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  139   Comments: 2
WAMX 3947 In Your Face
Title:  WAMX 3947 In Your Face
Description:  Normally this perspective is frowned upon, but the train is parked with no crew and the engines shut down. 3947 was the first addition that Watco made to the locomotive fleet on the WSOR system back in spring of 2014. It was soon joined by 3928 (As built, those two were sequentially numbered on the D&H and again on the UP), which received a WSOR 35th Anniversary scheme in the early summer of 2015 (the last with the thin chevron stripes on the short hood). 3947 remained in hideous patched UP yellow until the spring of 2017.
Photo Date:  7/11/2018  Upload Date: 7/21/2018 7:01:25 PM
Location:  Sun Prairie, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  184   Comments: 1
Blastoff!
Title:  Blastoff!
Description:  The L468 crew starts the pull west toward Madison (normally the train that works this branch is the L464). This train was held due to the emergency response to a catastrophic gas main explosion in downtown Sun Prairie the previous evening.
Photo Date:  7/11/2018  Upload Date: 7/21/2018 7:01:50 PM
Location:  Sun Prairie, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  117   Comments: 1
Wider view of this attractive EMD duo kicking up dust as it crosses Twin Lane Road
Title:  Wider view of this attractive EMD duo kicking up dust as it crosses Twin Lane Road
Description:  The trailing unit is one of two Helm (HLCX) units currently active on the WSOR system. It was built as a Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México SD40, since upgraded to SD40-2 standards. It is also one of very few (may be the last) units left in the maroon and blue paint scheme.
Photo Date:  7/11/2018  Upload Date: 7/21/2018 7:02:22 PM
Location:  Sun Prairie, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  153   Comments: 1
Blasting Through
Title:  Blasting Through
Description:  Normally, trains would be eastbound on this line at this time of day, so this was a rare opportunity for light like this!
Photo Date:  7/11/2018  Upload Date: 7/21/2018 7:03:22 PM
Location:  Burke, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  357   Comments: 1
MGHX 1019 ex-CRIP
Title:  MGHX 1019 ex-CRIP
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/11/2018  Upload Date: 7/21/2018 7:04:05 PM
Location:  Burke, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  45   Comments: 0
MGHX 1019
Title:  MGHX 1019
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/11/2018  Upload Date: 7/21/2018 7:05:08 PM
Location:  Burke, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  35   Comments: 0
MGHX 1004 ex-C&NW
Title:  MGHX 1004 ex-C&NW
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/11/2018  Upload Date: 7/21/2018 7:09:09 PM
Location:  Burke, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
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Views:  56   Comments: 0
CP 5996 eases onto the Crawfish River bridge with an empty ballast train
Title:  CP 5996 eases onto the Crawfish River bridge with an empty ballast train
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/14/2019  Upload Date: 6/14/2019 7:21:52 PM
Location:  Hubbleton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5996(SD40-2)
Views:  176   Comments: 0
Multimarks rumble over the Crawfish River
Title:  Multimarks rumble over the Crawfish River
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/14/2019  Upload Date: 6/14/2019 7:23:36 PM
Location:  Hubbleton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5996(SD40-2)
Views:  150   Comments: 0
GREX 2800 brings up the rear of the empty ballast train
Title:  GREX 2800 brings up the rear of the empty ballast train
Description:  After a string of CP/SOO family cars was a cut of GREX conveyor cars with this at the end.
Photo Date:  6/14/2019  Upload Date: 6/14/2019 7:26:31 PM
Location:  Hubbleton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  76   Comments: 0
Empty ballast train crests the last rise nearing its destination
Title:  Empty ballast train crests the last rise nearing its destination
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/14/2019  Upload Date: 6/14/2019 7:27:13 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5996(SD40-2)
Views:  176   Comments: 2
Conductor about to disembark from CP 5996 to line the spur switch into the ballast loading site
Title:  Conductor about to disembark from CP 5996 to line the spur switch into the ballast loading site
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/14/2019  Upload Date: 6/14/2019 7:28:49 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5996(SD40-2)
Views:  168   Comments: 1
The ballast train sits for a few minutes while the conductor lines the switch
Title:  The ballast train sits for a few minutes while the conductor lines the switch
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/14/2019  Upload Date: 6/14/2019 7:29:59 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5996(SD40-2)
Views:  149   Comments: 0
GREX 2800
Title:  GREX 2800
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/14/2019  Upload Date: 6/14/2019 7:31:13 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  33   Comments: 0
GREX 2800 follows the ballast train across Peschel Road
Title:  GREX 2800 follows the ballast train across Peschel Road
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/14/2019  Upload Date: 6/14/2019 7:31:52 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  47   Comments: 0
The train has stopped with GREX 2800 fouling the main
Title:  The train has stopped with GREX 2800 fouling the main
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/14/2019  Upload Date: 6/14/2019 7:33:29 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  90   Comments: 0
Ballast power rolls across Dayton Street
Title:  Ballast power rolls across Dayton Street
Description:  8WWA-24 has just cut off from their string of loads from the "Pit" just outside of Waterloo. Apparently the plan was to wye the power, which would have been a major bummer for me since I had gone after this train in the hope of chasing the SD60-3 leading back to Portage.
Photo Date:  4/24/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:45:26 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6302(SD60-3)
Views:  128   Comments: 0
Never Mind
Title:  Never Mind
Description:  After pulling ahead toward the east leg of the wye (end of the former Watertown Sub Main Track 2), the crew was then told by the dispatcher to NOT wye their power after all, and backed up to collect the train.
Photo Date:  4/24/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:45:42 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 2313(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  65   Comments: 0
Coupled Up
Title:  Coupled Up
Description:  Ready to pull the loaded ballast train around the tightly curving west leg of the wye. Due to the overcast, I decided to try the view from the north side of the tracks, so of course the sun promptly peeked out. Not for long, though.
Photo Date:  4/24/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:46:08 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6302(SD60-3)
Views:  113   Comments: 0
Entering home rails
Title:  Entering home rails
Description:  Leaving trackage rights over WSOR's Waterloo Sub, which CP acquired in 1998 after they sold the line to WSOR in order to retain access to the "Michels Pit" ballast transload site. 6302 is one of the first of the ten "SD60-3"rebuilds done at NRE Silvis, completed just before the "Golden Beaver" paint scheme was reintroduced late in 2017.
Photo Date:  4/24/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:46:27 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6302(SD60-3)
Views:  119   Comments: 0
Tight Turn
Title:  Tight Turn
Description:  The 8WWA loaded ballast train (with a few company Difcos up front followed by the GREX conveyor string) makes a sharp left around the west leg of the wye to go west to Portage on the Watertown Sub main.
Photo Date:  4/24/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:46:46 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  42   Comments: 0
Loaded WWA-13 gets underway from the Pit
Title:  Loaded WWA-13 gets underway from the Pit
Description:  Couldn't catch the empties coming out of Portage in the morning with the repainted SD40-2s leading due to work.
Photo Date:  5/13/2022  Upload Date: 5/21/2022 12:20:44 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 2276(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  79   Comments: 0
Beavers on the River
Title:  Beavers on the River
Description:  I was pleasantly surprised to find out that CP is giving at least a few of their SD40-2s the new Golden Beaver dip, along with PTC capability that makes them able to lead on U.S. mainlines once again. Also notice the DMVW car first up in the train, the previous day a westbound CP manifest had three ex-CN SD60Fs heading for service on that road.
Photo Date:  5/13/2022  Upload Date: 5/21/2022 12:23:33 PM
Location:  Hubbleton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6025(SD40-2) CP 5973(SD40-2) CP 2276(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  183   Comments: 0
Home Rails
Title:  Home Rails
Description:  A small group of CP's company ballast car fleet still carries untouched Milwaukee Road markings...I think there were four in this train.
Photo Date:  5/13/2022  Upload Date: 5/21/2022 12:24:01 PM
Location:  Hubbleton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  40   Comments: 0
Ornis Road at 1445
Title:  Ornis Road at 1445
Description:  One of the few crossings on this branch where I hadn't previously shot one of these ballast trains.
Photo Date:  5/13/2022  Upload Date: 5/21/2022 12:30:44 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 2276(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  80   Comments: 0
Fresh red CP 6025
Title:  Fresh red CP 6025
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/13/2022  Upload Date: 5/21/2022 12:34:50 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6025(SD40-2)
Views:  104   Comments: 0
2WWA-17 rolls across the Crawfish, taking thd Herzog set out to Michels Pit to for another trainload of ballast
Title:  2WWA-17 rolls across the Crawfish, taking thd Herzog set out to Michels Pit to for another trainload of ballast
Description:  A number of the SD40-2s received fresh coats of "Golden Beaver" paint a little over a year ago, and began appearing on these ballast and other MoW trains (post-merger in 2023, often sharing such duties with KCS SD70MACs, of all things). I had yet to catch one leading until now, and I wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to get a matching pair!
Photo Date:  6/17/2023  Upload Date: 6/18/2023 6:31:41 PM
Location:  Hubbleton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6025(SD40-2)
Views:  59   Comments: 0
The empty Herzog train slows as it approaches the switch to the Pit
Title:  The empty Herzog train slows as it approaches the switch to the Pit
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/17/2023  Upload Date: 6/18/2023 6:33:38 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6025(SD40-2)
Views:  40   Comments: 1
Conductor Steve climbs down to line the switches into the Michels Pit ballast loading site
Title:  Conductor Steve climbs down to line the switches into the Michels Pit ballast loading site
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/17/2023  Upload Date: 6/18/2023 6:34:00 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6025(SD40-2)
Views:  60   Comments: 0
London (Ont.)-built Golden Rodents
Title:  London (Ont.)-built Golden Rodents
Description:  Did I mention I really, really wanted to get one of these repainted SD40-2s leading?
Photo Date:  6/17/2023  Upload Date: 6/18/2023 6:35:02 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6025(SD40-2)
Views:  83   Comments: 0
Just Waiting
Title:  Just Waiting
Description:  Conductor Steve had to walk a ways into the Pit and line several switches before the train could pull in and begin loading.
Photo Date:  6/17/2023  Upload Date: 6/18/2023 6:35:31 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6025(SD40-2)
Views:  82   Comments: 0
Beaver Sandwich
Title:  Beaver Sandwich
Description:  The train pulled into the Pit, coupled onto five loaded WSOR Difcos (both railroads utilize this ballast transload site) and pulled them out to set them out of the way on the main west of the switch.
Photo Date:  6/17/2023  Upload Date: 6/18/2023 6:37:47 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6017(SD40-2) CP 6025(SD40-2)
Views:  82   Comments: 0
Profile of a Red Golden Rodent basking in the sun
Title:  Profile of a Red Golden Rodent basking in the sun
Description:  About to pull back into the Pit, the train will be split into two sections for loading on the two tracks in the Pit.
Photo Date:  6/17/2023  Upload Date: 6/18/2023 6:38:38 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6025(SD40-2)
Views:  148   Comments: 0
Train loaded and re-assembled, 2WWA-17 is now ready to blast off from the Pit
Title:  Train loaded and re-assembled, 2WWA-17 is now ready to blast off from the Pit
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/17/2023  Upload Date: 6/18/2023 6:40:52 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6017(SD40-2)
Views:  36   Comments: 0
2WWA-17 now eastbound over the Crawfish with the loads
Title:  2WWA-17 now eastbound over the Crawfish with the loads
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/17/2023  Upload Date: 6/18/2023 6:41:37 PM
Location:  Hubbleton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6017(SD40-2)
Views:  37   Comments: 0
Crossing Dayton Street, ready to line the wye switch
Title:  Crossing Dayton Street, ready to line the wye switch
Description:  After rounding the tight curve on the west leg of the wye, the train will run parallel to the Watertown Sub main for a couple miles before joining the double track CTC territory at Watertown West. The switch used to be in Watertown proper, but was moved following a derailment in fall 2015. Prior to that, it used to be standard practice for these trains to run the power around and shove out onto the main via the east wye switch before heading west.
Photo Date:  6/17/2023  Upload Date: 6/18/2023 6:42:09 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6017(SD40-2)
Views:  36   Comments: 0

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