unloading rock along the new doubletrack between Parkwood and Graces

A735 passes the WSOR ballast train, which is unloading rock for the new doubletrack project between Parkwood and Graces.

A WSOR SD20 put on a sound show as it and the trailing GP38 work hard to get their large cut of rock cars underway, passing the town water tower and some scenic pine trees.

The first snow of southern Wisconsin has also brought a rare appearance of the MAJ(Madison-jvl) on the wye as they drop off mow ballast cars off for a future ballast train on the Waukesha sub

wsor ran a extra coal train to the madison uw heater. The sd-40 had trouble fitting around the tight curve at the heater!

Passing the old MILW depot on West Washington St. and the display trainset parked alongside is this coal extra for the UW "heater", located just past the modern looking UW Kohl Center in the backg... (more)

This unit coal extra out of Janesville makes the bend onto the WSOR Prairie sub with a load for the UW "heater".

Coming across the old crossing of the CNW in the middle of Monona Bay on the ex MILW entrance into Madison is an extra unit coal train for the University of Wisconsin "heater". This train came up... (more)

WSOR's PM job has just made a set out & pickup at a customer's spur and gets a roll northward. Try getting that service on a Class 1 RR.

Its harvest time in northern Dane County as the "PM job" heads north to Reedsburg out of Madison.

The setting sun on a pleasant Saturday afternoon bathes the farms of southern Wisconsin and the WSOR adds a diversion to the pastures of the dairy state.

WSOR's JMA train shatters the silence on this otherwise peaceful Saturday afternoon in small town America.

With 55 loads of coal & misc. manifest tacked on, the JMA gets down to business climbing out of the Rock River valley. Trailing unit 4050 is a notorious smoker in spite of the grade.

A somewhat rare Saturday Janesville-Madison turn leaves it's terminal in nice afternoon light and crosses the Rock River bridge.