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By:Richard Hopfensperger
Dates:1/1/1992 - 12/31/2030
Album Info:The Wisconsin and Southern operates on former Milwaukee Road rails in Oshkosh, WI. This is a look at their operations in the vicinity of Oshkosh.
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WSOR Oshkosh Terminal
Title:  WSOR Oshkosh Terminal
Description:  The interesection of State Hwy 91 (formerly County Hwy X until 1996) and Clairville Road is the location of the WSOR's Oshkosh terminal. Old maps refer to this location as "Fitzgerald" but it is now just another part of Oshkosh. The large grain facility is currently owned by ADM.
Photo Date:  4/6/2014  Upload Date: 4/20/2014 10:55:21 AM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Station,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  318   Comments: 1
WSOR 3813
Title:  WSOR 3813
Description:  WSOR prepares to leave the small yard facility in Oshkosh located at the intersection of State Highway 91 and Clairville Road. The train will be returning to Horicon, a terminal from which WSOR serves numerous branches.
Photo Date:  4/16/2014  Upload Date: 4/20/2014 11:38:34 AM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Station,Track,Action
Locomotives:  WSOR 3813(GP38-2) WSOR 3810(GP38-2)
Views:  530   Comments: 1
WSOR 3804
Title:  WSOR 3804
Description:  As seen from my vehicle, the WSOR Horicon to Oshkosh turn prepares to shove a cut of flat cars to the rail load ramp at the end of the former Milwaukee Road branch to Oshkosh. The train is crossing the intersection of State Highway 91 and Clairville Road on the western edge of Oshkosh.
Photo Date:  4/24/2014  Upload Date: 4/29/2014 9:25:32 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WSOR 3804(GP38) WSOR 3803(GP38AC)
Views:  327   Comments: 1
WSOR 3809
Title:  WSOR 3809
Description:  The WSOR Horicon to Oshkosh turn shoves a cut of flats across Oakwood Road to the loading ramp at what is now the end of the former Twelfth Sub of the Milwaukee Road in Oshkosh, WI. The ramp is located at the very end of what is left of this subdivision.
Photo Date:  6/5/2014  Upload Date: 6/17/2014 10:42:28 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WSOR 3809(GP38-2) WSOR 3803(GP38AC)
Views:  366   Comments: 2
TTDX 931058
Title:  TTDX 931058
Description:  When the WSOR switches the circus style loading ramp at the end of rail in Oshkosh, they often set the loaded cars on the WoW warehouse spur to get them out of the way to place the empties. Here, a cut of loaded cars rests on the warehouse spur as the WSOR shoves the empties to the ramp. There are seven customers in this industrial park for the WSOR.
Photo Date:  6/5/2014  Upload Date: 6/18/2014 6:23:12 AM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  219   Comments: 1
WSOR 3810
Title:  WSOR 3810
Description:  Working from the east end of the small yard on the west side of Oshkosh. The WSOR has a small yard here to work the former Milwaukee Road line. Where this small yard is located, the WSOR had a transload facility for everythhing from intermodal, grain and wven coal. The WSOR had a circus style piggy-back ramp along with a piggy-packer, though they didn't generate much in the way of piggy-back business in Oshkosh. Presently, ADM now owns or at least leases the property that isn't the R.o.W. and works the grain traffic out of and into Oshkosh. The facility is also now a transload facility for Fox River Valley Ethanol. (formerly Utica Energy) Ethanol is loaded into tanks for rail shipment. The ATW flat is an empty spotted at Leeco, waiting to go back to Horicon and wherever else it may end up.
Photo Date:  12/26/2014  Upload Date: 5/22/2015 9:11:34 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WSOR 3810(GP38-2) WSOR 3803(GP38AC)
Views:  253   Comments: 0
WSOR 3803
Title:  WSOR 3803
Description:  The turn out to switch Bemis in the Southwest Industrial Park is just past MP 185. Here the crew works the mill between the Universal Street and 20th Avenue grade crossings.
Photo Date:  5/25/2015  Upload Date: 7/30/2015 8:55:18 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WSOR 3803(GP38AC) WSOR 3805(GP38)
Views:  224   Comments: 0
WSOR 3813
Title:  WSOR 3813
Description:  A WSOR train shoves back to the end of the line in Oahskosh, from Horicon, to pick up some flats loaded with Oshkosh Corporation trucks.
Photo Date:  10/12/2015  Upload Date: 10/11/2016 6:04:00 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WSOR 3813(GP38-2) WSOR 3803(GP38AC)
Views:  198   Comments: 1
AEX 20294
Title:  AEX 20294
Description:  A cut of covered hoppers rolls past the turnout into Bemis. The engines shoved the cars upgrade after switching the plant, and then went back into the spur to allow the cars to roll by, putting the engines on the correct end to head back into the small Oshkosh yard without performing a shove. In this view from the 20th Avenue grade crossing, the engines are out of frame to the left hidden by the trees.
Photo Date:  10/12/2015  Upload Date: 8/2/2017 10:41:59 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  146   Comments: 0
WSOR 3812
Title:  WSOR 3812
Description:  In the winter/spring of 2016, WATCO started a terminal operation in Oshkosh on the former Strey Construction spur. This facility is equipped for trans-loading granular materials from truck to rail. One of the conveyors is visible through the trees. The facility is located on the south side of the line, opposite what is now the United CO-OP elevator, along the former Milwaukee Road branch from Horicon to Oshkosh.
Photo Date:  2/27/2016  Upload Date: 10/27/2016 10:39:39 AM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Roster,Scenic
Locomotives:  WSOR 3812(GP38-2)
Views:  252   Comments: 2
WAMX 3894
Title:  WAMX 3894
Description:  A Wisconsin and Southern train fouls the grade crossing at the intersection of Clairville Road and State Highway 91 on the edge of Oshkosh. The crew is doing some final switching at what is now a United Co-op facility (previously ADM, and before that WSOR Transload facility). The train will then depart for the return to Horicon. The WAMX's are new to the WATCO owned Wisconsin and Southern (WSOR) to replace the 3800 series GP38's.
Photo Date:  3/16/2016  Upload Date: 4/8/2016 8:15:36 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WAMX 3894(GP38-2) WAMX 3893(GP38-2)
Views:  753   Comments: 3
WSOR 4002
Title:  WSOR 4002
Description:  A rare sighting of large six axle road power on the Oshkosh sub. The crew is working at the United Co-op (formerly ADM and before that Olsen) facility in Oshkosh.
Photo Date:  5/30/2016  Upload Date: 9/11/2017 7:15:13 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WSOR 4002(SD40-2) WSOR 4010(SD40-2)
Views:  169   Comments: 3
WSOR 4010
Title:  WSOR 4010
Description:  Switching some cars at the United Co-op grain facility in Oshkosh. There are also loads of steel to spot at either of two steel distributors, some two bay covered hoppers to spot at the trans-load terminal and cars for Bemis.
Photo Date:  5/30/2016  Upload Date: 8/5/2017 7:58:18 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  WSOR 4010(SD40-2) WSOR 4002(SD40-2)
Views:  294   Comments: 1
WSOR 4010
Title:  WSOR 4010
Description:  Switching the United Co-op elevator in Oshkosh.
Photo Date:  5/30/2016  Upload Date: 8/5/2017 8:16:51 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  WSOR 4010(SD40-2) WSOR 4002(SD40-2)
Views:  317   Comments: 3
WAMX 3891
Title:  WAMX 3891
Description:  Running on former Milwaukee Road right of way, a WSOR train enters Oshkosh from the southwest. The train works out of Horicon, working the line to Oshkosh. This grade crossing is located at the Highway 91 / Clairville Road intersection.
Photo Date:  7/11/2016  Upload Date: 11/15/2017 7:48:08 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WAMX 3891(GP38-2)
Views:  186   Comments: 1
WAMX 3891
Title:  WAMX 3891
Description:  Three units pull a WSOR train into its small yard in Oshkosh. Decades ago, before this location was absorbed into Oshkosh, it was known as Fitzgerald. Back then, there were still a couple miles to traverse before arriving in Oshkosh.
Photo Date:  7/11/2016  Upload Date: 11/15/2017 7:52:57 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WAMX 3891(GP38-2) WSOR 3811(GP38-2) WSOR 3813(GP38-2)
Views:  181   Comments: 1
WAMX 3891
Title:  WAMX 3891
Description:  A WSOR train reaches Oshkosh and enters the small yard. In reality this "yard" is not much more than a run around and is adjacent to the United Co-Op elevator facility with its numerous tracks. There is also a spur which serves as the WATCO Port and Terminal facility in Oshkosh, trans-loading granular commodities into these two bay covered hoppers via conveyor. The terminal facility also is involved in transferring between truck and tank cars marked with "inedible tallow". The flat cars with plate steel on them will be going to one or both of the two steel processing centers located on the line.
Photo Date:  7/11/2016  Upload Date: 11/15/2017 8:02:01 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WAMX 3891(GP38-2) WSOR 3811(GP38-2) WSOR 3813(GP38-2)
Views:  188   Comments: 1
WSOR 4011
Title:  WSOR 4011
Description:  Quite a lash up of locomotives for this days run to Oshkosh on the former Milwaukee Road right of way from Horicon. The four units are between S. Oakwood and Clairville roads while working the industrial park.
Photo Date:  10/11/2016  Upload Date: 11/22/2017 6:37:49 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WSOR 4011(SD40-2) WSOR 4007(SD40-2) WAMX 3891(GP38-2) WAMX 3895(GP38-2)
Views:  275   Comments: 1
Working in Oshkosh
Title:  Working in Oshkosh
Description:  Four units (WSOR 4011 out of frame, right) foul the Clairville Road / State Highway 91 intersection. The train is preparing to depart for its return to Horicon on this former Milwaukee Road branch.
Photo Date:  10/11/2016  Upload Date: 11/22/2017 6:47:30 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WAMX 3891(GP38-2) WAMX 3895(GP38-2) WSOR 4007(SD40-2)
Views:  330   Comments: 1
Heavy Snowfall
Title:  Heavy Snowfall
Description:  The WSOR turn to Oshkosh is working the array of tracks at the United Co-op/WATC Port and Terminal location. Look close and one can make out the roof of the fabric and pole building that is part of the United Co-op facility behind the train.
Photo Date:  1/25/2017  Upload Date: 1/30/2018 6:40:07 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  WAMX 4174(SD40-2) WAMX 3870(GP38-2) WAMX 3891(GP38-2)
Views:  302   Comments: 0
WAMX 3870
Title:  WAMX 3870
Description:  The 3870 is bracketed by WAMX 3891, to its rear, and 4174 leading. Visibility is hampered in this January 2017 snow storm as the train works Oshkosh.
Photo Date:  1/25/2017  Upload Date: 1/30/2018 6:47:34 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  WAMX 3870(GP38-2)
Views:  175   Comments: 0
WAMX 4174
Title:  WAMX 4174
Description:  Heading deeper into Oshkosh, WAMX 4174 and the rest of its locomotive set, run around a cut of cars as the crew works in a snowstorm.
Photo Date:  1/25/2017  Upload Date: 1/30/2018 6:53:27 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  WAMX 4174(SD40-2)
Views:  218   Comments: 1
WAMX 4174
Title:  WAMX 4174
Description:  The locomotive set of the Horicon to Oshkosh turn runs east through a clearing at the end of Global parkway. The WSOR works the industrial park on the west side of Oshkosh along the former Milwaukee Road right of way. A snowstorm of wet and heavy snow is making the job a little more difficult.
Photo Date:  1/25/2017  Upload Date: 1/30/2018 6:58:09 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  WAMX 4174(SD40-2) WAMX 3870(GP38-2) WAMX 3891(GP38-2)
Views:  321   Comments: 0
WAMX 3891
Title:  WAMX 3891
Description:  WAMX 3891 is the trailing unit of three as the turn from Horicon is working Oshkosh. Covered hoppers are abundant along the line in Oshkosh. Bemis receives plastic pellets, the Watco Port and Terminal Facility trans loads roofing granules and the United Co-op ships corn; all in covered hoppers.
Photo Date:  1/25/2017  Upload Date: 1/30/2018 7:13:18 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  WAMX 3891(GP38-2) WAMX 3870(GP38-2)
Views:  259   Comments: 1
WAMX 3891
Title:  WAMX 3891
Description:  A pair of former Union Pacific units lead their train into Oshkosh for the WSOR. The train is approaching the Clairville Road/State Highway 91 intersection and grade crossing.
Photo Date:  3/24/2017  Upload Date: 8/28/2017 3:55:51 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WAMX 3891(GP38-2) WAMX 3894(GP38-2)
Views:  264   Comments: 0
WAMX 3891
Title:  WAMX 3891
Description:  A nice sized train approaches the WSOR (WATCO) terminal on the west side of Oshkosh on former Milwaukee Road right of way. Traffic has picked up since the end of the Milwaukee era.
Photo Date:  3/24/2017  Upload Date: 8/28/2017 3:59:46 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WAMX 3891(GP38-2) WAMX 3894(GP38-2)
Views:  230   Comments: 0
WAMX 3891
Title:  WAMX 3891
Description:  WAMX units lead their WSOR train into Oshkosh.
Photo Date:  3/24/2017  Upload Date: 8/28/2017 4:04:23 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WAMX 3891(GP38-2) WAMX 3894(GP38-2)
Views:  269   Comments: 0
WAMX 3891
Title:  WAMX 3891
Description:  WSOR Horico to Oshkosh turn fouls the Clairville Road/State Highway 91 intersection grade crossing as it enters the terminal/yard in Oshkosh.
Photo Date:  3/24/2017  Upload Date: 9/21/2017 8:33:14 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WAMX 3891(GP38-2) WAMX 3894(GP38-2)
Views:  264   Comments: 0
WAMX 3891
Title:  WAMX 3891
Description:  Former UP GP38-2's replaced the WSOR's GP38's. Here a pair lead their train across the Clairville Road/State Highway 91 intersection grade crossing into the small yard and transload terminal at Oshkosh.
Photo Date:  3/24/2017  Upload Date: 8/28/2017 4:07:10 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  WAMX 3891(GP38-2) WAMX 3894(GP38-2)
Views:  267   Comments: 0
IANR 1052
Title:  IANR 1052
Description:  A WSORtrain enters the yard/terminal facility in Oshkosh. Between the grain elevator (currently United Co-op), the Fox River Valley Ethanol tanks and trans-load, the WATCO terminal operations and the other businesses located on the WSOR line in town, it is a busy place.
Photo Date:  3/24/2017  Upload Date: 9/21/2017 8:38:13 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  WAMX 3891(GP38-2) WAMX 3894(GP38-2)
Views:  219   Comments: 0
WSOR Trans-Load
Title:  WSOR Trans-Load
Description:  Once in a while, DODX cars loaded with Oshkosh Truck military vehicles return to Oshkosh for refurbishment. This traffic is brought into town via the WSOR and is off load on the siding at the end of Global Parkway. The vehicles are all taken off by a crane brought in to do the job. Many of the vehicles can not move under their own power. They are off-loaded and trucked to the Oshkosh Corporation facility to do the work.
Photo Date:  4/30/2017  Upload Date: 8/29/2017 10:08:42 AM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives: 
Views:  149   Comments: 0
DODX 42323
Title:  DODX 42323
Description:  Oshkosh Corporation trucks are returning home to be refit. The trucks will be craned off the train onto flatbed tractor-trailers and brought to the proper Oshkosh Corporation facility.
Photo Date:  5/4/2017  Upload Date: 8/29/2017 10:17:12 AM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  167   Comments: 0
WAMX 4182
Title:  WAMX 4182
Description:  There is a great deal of planning and work to return these trucks to Oshkosh Corporation for refit. The WSOR will be using parent company WATCO's WAMX 4182 to move the cars into position for the crane. It can take up to two days to off load a long string of cars this way, at the end of Global Parkway.
Photo Date:  5/4/2017  Upload Date: 8/29/2017 10:32:02 AM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WAMX 4182(SD40-2)
Views:  389   Comments: 0
WAMX 4192
Title:  WAMX 4192
Description:  Four units, including one unkown GP38-2, at work at the Oshkosh terminal at Clairville Road and State 91. The units all look like WSOR, but are listed as parent company WATCO property, WAMX.
Photo Date:  5/6/2017  Upload Date: 8/31/2017 11:50:33 AM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WAMX 4192(SD40M-2) WAMX 3892(GP38-2) WAMX 3893(GP38-2)
Views:  437   Comments: 0
WAMX 3891
Title:  WAMX 3891
Description:  It doesn't take long for a long line of automobiles to accumulate when the WSOR fouls 20th Avenue while switching Bemis in Oshkosh.
Photo Date:  7/7/2017  Upload Date: 12/16/2018 3:13:36 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WAMX 3891(GP38-2) WAMX 3893(GP38-2) WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  206   Comments: 0
WATCO Terminal
Title:  WATCO Terminal
Description:  A look at the United CO-OP and WATCO facilities in Oshkosh from the inetersection of Clairville Road and HWY 91. The newer grain bins dominate over the older bins at the elevator. The WATCO/WSOR facilities in Oshkosh have certainly grown over the last 20 years. It is not uncommon to see close to 30 cars spotted at the terminal. This count doesn't include the cars at Bemis, Lapham-Hickey and Leeco.
Photo Date:  10/28/2018  Upload Date: 4/7/2019 11:15:53 AM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  70   Comments: 0
WATCO Terminal
Title:  WATCO Terminal
Description:  A large concrete pad with loading ramps and two tracks was put in on the north side of the former Milwaukee Road line. The facility is used for transloading tanks, covered hoppers and the occassional boxcar via a mobile cross dock that has been seen at the location. The facility is also used to load Oshkosh Corp. vehicles onto flatcats. Leeco, a receiver of plate steel via rail is seen in the back ground. This opened in June 1018 after construction started in late 2017.
Photo Date:  10/28/2018  Upload Date: 4/7/2019 11:22:53 AM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  89   Comments: 0
WATCO/WSOR Terminal
Title:  WATCO/WSOR Terminal
Description:  A look at some flatcars spotted at the new in 2018 piggyback ramps.
Photo Date:  10/28/2018  Upload Date: 4/7/2019 11:35:08 AM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives: 
Views:  87   Comments: 0


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