A 50-degree day has the snow melting in Wisconsin. The result is mushy roadbed conditions over the frozen tundra necessitating a few slow orders on both the CP and nearby UP Adams sub. The loca... (more)
Interestingly, both these trains had a SOO widecab trailing in their consists. 280 meets it's counterpart, 281, on the doubletrack at Tamarack. 280 has just crossed over 2/1 in front of 281, an... (more)
A rare move over the otherwise unused Sauk branch is seen as the WSOR shoves hopper cars into storage. This ex-Milwaukee branch once served the US Army Badger Ammo plant.
A WSOR hopper train quietly passes the frozen mill pond nearing "Mazo". The hoppers will be shoved onto the Sauk spur for storage after the train passes the switch lead a few hundred yards ahead.
WSOR makes a move on the Prairie sub past the old wig-wag dating from the Milwaukee Road days. This is one of two active magnetic flagmen that can be found along this line west of Madison.