A face only a mother could love. The Central Wisconsin Railroad started with a fleet of ancient ex-MILW FM switchers on the ex-MILW line west of Waukesha. Few of the FM fleet ever turned a revenue... (more)
CWRC 728 (ex-MILW) faces a dismal fate as is sits at the makeshift CWRC engine facility just west of Waukesha, WI in November of 1983.
The Central Wisconsin Railroad was a fairly short-lived operation that in 1980 took over Milwaukee Road trackage west from Waukesha, WI, to Milton Junction and later expanded. Most of its diesel f... (more)
3 FM's face a dismal future as they rest in the weeds west of Waukesha, WI. The Central Wisconsin RR Co. took over these ex-MILW tracks. Eventually, this would become the WSOR mainline, but the FM... (more)
CWRC 736 faces a dismal fate as is sits at the makeshift CWRC engine facility just west of Waukesha, WI in November of 1983.
CWRC 1200 rests under a gantry crane in at the Miller Compressing scrapyard in Milwaukee, WI in December of 1992. The Allen Bradley clock, the largest 4 sided clock in the world at the time, says ... (more)
CWRR 1207, nee WIWR 1207, nee CWRR 783, nee MILW 783, sits in the Miller Compressing scrapyard in Milwaukee, awaiting her fate in August of 1985.
I can't imagine trying to start a RR with a fleet of ancient FM switchers, but that is what the CWRC tried to do with the ex-MILW line west of Waukesha. Few of the FM fleet ever turned a revenue m... (more)