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JC crossing the Milton Shopiere Rd. overpass |
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9/21/2008 Upload Date: 9/21/2008 7:17:45 PM |
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Avalon, WI |
| Author: |
Jim Wehrle |
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WSOR 4005(SD40-2) |
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T004 highballing Van Allen Rd. about two miles east of town |
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9/4/2012 Upload Date: 9/7/2012 12:12:41 AM |
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Janesville, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WSOR 4012(SD40-2) |
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Heading to Bardwell after picking up some grain hoppers on the Elkhorn branch |
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After a long day, the T004 crew will tie the train down at Bardwell, where it will sit until the Metra rush is over in the evening. Then it will become train T002 to Chicago. |
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9/4/2012 Upload Date: 9/7/2012 12:14:38 AM |
| Location: |
Darien, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WSOR 4012(SD40-2) |
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UP 1421 leads three other UP Geeps on WSOR G-33, Avalon unit grain |
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Loaded train headed back to Janesville at LaPrairie Town Hall Road. |
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11/10/2013 Upload Date: 11/11/2013 6:57:39 PM |
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Janesville, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1421(GP40-2) GMTX 2317(GP38-2) |
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The two E8s and six cars of the High Iron Travel excursion cut across the fields toward Van Allen Rd. |
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6/20/2014 Upload Date: 6/24/2014 10:11:52 PM |
| Location: |
Janesville, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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SLRG 515(E8A) |
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| Title: |
Making good time and looking mighty fine |
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6/20/2014 Upload Date: 6/24/2014 10:20:32 PM |
| Location: |
Janesville, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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SLRG 515(E8A) SLRG 518(E8A) |
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269 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
GAVX 7161 the Gavilon switcher |
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This plant is the source of the unit grain trains like the one I photographed on Friday. |
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5/3/2015 Upload Date: 5/4/2015 11:49:49 PM |
| Location: |
Avalon, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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GAVX 7161(SD40-2) |
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390 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SLRG 4137 and the IPH equipment move race the rain |
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5/3/2015 Upload Date: 5/4/2015 11:51:03 PM |
| Location: |
Bardwell, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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SLRG 4137(GP40FH-2) |
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537 Comments: 1 |
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SLRG 4137 picking up speed |
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5/3/2015 Upload Date: 5/4/2015 11:51:50 PM |
| Location: |
Bardwell, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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SLRG 4137(GP40FH-2) |
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435 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SLRG 4137 about to duck under CR X |
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5/3/2015 Upload Date: 5/4/2015 11:54:48 PM |
| Location: |
Bardwell, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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SLRG 4137(GP40FH-2) |
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764 Comments: 1 |
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SLRG 100 is freshly repainted, ex-IC/CN 100 |
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5/3/2015 Upload Date: 5/4/2015 11:56:08 PM |
| Location: |
Bardwell, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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SLRG 100(E9A) |
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| Title: |
SLRG 518 |
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I don't believe this unit was repainted, but may have had some work done following its breakdown prior to last November's Polar Express runs. |
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5/3/2015 Upload Date: 5/4/2015 11:57:20 PM |
| Location: |
Bardwell, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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SLRG 518(E8A) |
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241 Comments: 0 |
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SLRG 101 was supposed to be repainted in Horicon, but was needed in service |
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5/3/2015 Upload Date: 5/4/2015 11:57:55 PM |
| Location: |
Bardwell, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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SLRG 101(E9A) |
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676 Comments: 0 |
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WSOR 4078 light engine and LHF trundles back to J'ville from Bardwell |
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Approaching Van Allen Road. Welded rail was installed along this stretch this spring, but surfacing work is still not finished and thus speed is still 10 MPH. Had been 25 on the jointed rail that was replaced! |
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8/23/2015 Upload Date: 8/26/2015 10:52:59 PM |
| Location: |
Janesville, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WSOR 4078(SD40M-2) |
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323 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
WSOR 4007 flies through with a local bound for Bardwell |
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This train was going by the symbol Y302 on the radio, which is a Janesville yard job. This move would be more typical of L351, the usual Elkhorn branch job. |
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11/6/2016 Upload Date: 11/8/2016 6:55:26 PM |
| Location: |
Avalon, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WSOR 4007(SD40-2) |
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181 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
WSOR 4007 is, incredibly, now part of an endangered species |
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I must have caught this locomotive leading six times in as many months when I first started railfanning the WSOR back in 2007. I was getting frustrated because I wanted to expand my roster! Now the WSOR SD40-2s are being relettered and numbered into the WAMX roster by parent company Watco. They will, thankfully, retain their red and gray paint and goose logo. |
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11/6/2016 Upload Date: 11/8/2016 6:57:30 PM |
| Location: |
Avalon, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WSOR 4007(SD40-2) |
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203 Comments: 1 |
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SLRG 101 leads the Graffiti (er, Polar) Express |
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Bit of a downer that Iowa Pacific couldn't have at least washed off the two ex-NJT coaches before deadheading this consist to Middleton. At least the 101 looks good and had a cool sounding M5 horn. |
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11/6/2016 Upload Date: 11/8/2016 7:04:34 PM |
| Location: |
Avalon, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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SLRG 101(E9A) |
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| Title: |
SLRG 101 in the biggest gap in the tree shadows I could find |
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The train ran on the first day after the time change...pretty much impossible to avoid shadows by 1PM! |
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11/6/2016 Upload Date: 11/8/2016 7:05:31 PM |
| Location: |
Avalon, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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SLRG 101(E9A) |
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292 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
'40s humming along approaching Van Allen Road |
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3/6/2020 Upload Date: 3/7/2020 7:54:25 PM |
| Location: |
Janesville, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4171(SD40-2) |
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| Title: |
Clean car, dirty mind |
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The reporting marks are a slight eyebrow-raiser. Badger State Ethanol was built in Monroe at the start of the 2000s ethanol boom (when ethanol was supposed to be the savior that would end our dependence on fossil fuels), and long strings of these cars for the inbound corn and tank cars for the outbound product were all over the WSOR system. It didn't quite work out that way, and it's been quite a few years since I last saw one of these cars. However, Badger State was perhaps single-handedly responsible for ensuring continued rail service to Monroe, as the high volume of traffic it generated in the early years spurred improvements to the previously moribund line. |
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3/6/2020 Upload Date: 3/7/2020 7:55:30 PM |
| Location: |
Janesville, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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T004 power runs light to collect two from DeLong |
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Coming back from Rockford, I pulled off in Janesville to see what I could find. I was picking up a FRED beep on the scanner and checked out the UP yard first. No sign of any action there, so I headed north on Read Road and found this train already going over the crossing. I turned around and took Avalon Road to this location, expecting them to come flying through en route to Bardwell and points east. Instead they came to a stop and cut off the power to make a pickup here, which I have never known the road train to do. DeLong acquired this grain facility at Avalon from Gavilon in 2016. Their switcher, ex-BN SD40-2 7161, can be seen just to the right of the WSOR power. |
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5/6/2021 Upload Date: 5/8/2021 10:48:44 PM |
| Location: |
Avalon, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4175(SD40-2) TDCX 7161(SD40-2) |
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217 Comments: 1 |
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Up close while the conductor lines the switch and opens the derail |
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5/6/2021 Upload Date: 5/8/2021 10:49:00 PM |
| Location: |
Avalon, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4175(SD40-2) |
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130 Comments: 1 |
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Pulling two from DeLong out to the main |
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After they backed these down onto the rest of the train, I had hoped they might highball for points east, but instead they turned the lights off. |
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5/6/2021 Upload Date: 5/8/2021 10:49:14 PM |
| Location: |
Avalon, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4175(SD40-2) |
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645 Symphony |
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The quartet of LaGrange's (or technically, McCook's) finest are clear of Janesville yard limits and humming right along. I'd been Murphy'd in three straight prior attempts to get a shot here. In February, train stopped to switch at County J until dark; earlier in May a cop had County O (my needed chase route) blocked at the intersection with J; then a few days later I stumbled upon the train and it had me cut off at another crossing. |
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5/20/2021 Upload Date: 5/23/2021 1:19:51 PM |
| Location: |
Janesville, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4173(SD40-2) |
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130 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Humming along approaching Van Allen Road |
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6/30/2021 Upload Date: 7/5/2021 5:30:05 PM |
| Location: |
Janesville, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 6029(SD60M) |
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170 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Stopping in front of the DeLong elevator |
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6/30/2021 Upload Date: 7/5/2021 5:30:26 PM |
| Location: |
Avalon, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 6029(SD60M) TDCX 7161(SD40-2) |
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