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10/31/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Andre Wehrle
Dates:9/21/2008 - 9/21/2021
Album Info:The former Milwaukee Road "J-Line" to Chicago, away from the yard limits of Janesville.
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JC crossing the Milton Shopiere Rd. overpass
Title:  JC crossing the Milton Shopiere Rd. overpass
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Photo Date:  9/21/2008  Upload Date: 9/21/2008 7:17:45 PM
Location:  Avalon, WI
Author:  Jim Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WSOR 4005(SD40-2)
Views:  674   Comments: 2
T004 highballing Van Allen Rd. about two miles east of town
Title:  T004 highballing Van Allen Rd. about two miles east of town
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Photo Date:  9/4/2012  Upload Date: 9/7/2012 12:12:41 AM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WSOR 4012(SD40-2)
Views:  444   Comments: 0
Heading to Bardwell after picking up some grain hoppers on the Elkhorn branch
Title:  Heading to Bardwell after picking up some grain hoppers on the Elkhorn branch
Description:  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.
Photo Date:  9/4/2012  Upload Date: 9/7/2012 12:14:38 AM
Location:  Darien, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WSOR 4012(SD40-2)
Views:  449   Comments: 0
UP 1421 leads three other UP Geeps on WSOR G-33, Avalon unit grain
Title:  UP 1421 leads three other UP Geeps on WSOR G-33, Avalon unit grain
Description:  Loaded train headed back to Janesville at LaPrairie Town Hall Road.
Photo Date:  11/10/2013  Upload Date: 11/11/2013 6:57:39 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1421(GP40-2) GMTX 2317(GP38-2)
Views:  462   Comments: 0
The two E8s and six cars of the High Iron Travel excursion cut across the fields toward Van Allen Rd.
Title:  The two E8s and six cars of the High Iron Travel excursion cut across the fields toward Van Allen Rd.
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Photo Date:  6/20/2014  Upload Date: 6/24/2014 10:11:52 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  SLRG 515(E8A)
Views:  243   Comments: 0
Making good time and looking mighty fine
Title:  Making good time and looking mighty fine
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/20/2014  Upload Date: 6/24/2014 10:20:32 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  SLRG 515(E8A) SLRG 518(E8A)
Views:  269   Comments: 0
GAVX 7161 the Gavilon switcher
Title:  GAVX 7161 the Gavilon switcher
Description:  This plant is the source of the unit grain trains like the one I photographed on Friday.
Photo Date:  5/3/2015  Upload Date: 5/4/2015 11:49:49 PM
Location:  Avalon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  GAVX 7161(SD40-2)
Views:  390   Comments: 0
SLRG 4137 and the IPH equipment move race the rain
Title:  SLRG 4137 and the IPH equipment move race the rain
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Photo Date:  5/3/2015  Upload Date: 5/4/2015 11:51:03 PM
Location:  Bardwell, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  SLRG 4137(GP40FH-2)
Views:  537   Comments: 1
SLRG 4137 picking up speed
Title:  SLRG 4137 picking up speed
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/3/2015  Upload Date: 5/4/2015 11:51:50 PM
Location:  Bardwell, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  SLRG 4137(GP40FH-2)
Views:  435   Comments: 0
SLRG 4137 about to duck under CR X
Title:  SLRG 4137 about to duck under CR X
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Photo Date:  5/3/2015  Upload Date: 5/4/2015 11:54:48 PM
Location:  Bardwell, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  SLRG 4137(GP40FH-2)
Views:  764   Comments: 1
SLRG 100 is freshly repainted, ex-IC/CN 100
Title:  SLRG 100 is freshly repainted, ex-IC/CN 100
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Photo Date:  5/3/2015  Upload Date: 5/4/2015 11:56:08 PM
Location:  Bardwell, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  SLRG 100(E9A)
Views:  1166   Comments: 0
SLRG 518
Title:  SLRG 518
Description:  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.
Photo Date:  5/3/2015  Upload Date: 5/4/2015 11:57:20 PM
Location:  Bardwell, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  SLRG 518(E8A)
Views:  241   Comments: 0
SLRG 101 was supposed to be repainted in Horicon, but was needed in service
Title:  SLRG 101 was supposed to be repainted in Horicon, but was needed in service
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Photo Date:  5/3/2015  Upload Date: 5/4/2015 11:57:55 PM
Location:  Bardwell, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  SLRG 101(E9A)
Views:  676   Comments: 0
WSOR 4078 light engine and LHF trundles back to J'ville from Bardwell
Title:  WSOR 4078 light engine and LHF trundles back to J'ville from Bardwell
Description:  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!
Photo Date:  8/23/2015  Upload Date: 8/26/2015 10:52:59 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WSOR 4078(SD40M-2)
Views:  323   Comments: 0
WSOR 4007 flies through with a local bound for Bardwell
Title:  WSOR 4007 flies through with a local bound for Bardwell
Description:  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.
Photo Date:  11/6/2016  Upload Date: 11/8/2016 6:55:26 PM
Location:  Avalon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WSOR 4007(SD40-2)
Views:  181   Comments: 1
WSOR 4007 is, incredibly, now part of an endangered species
Title:  WSOR 4007 is, incredibly, now part of an endangered species
Description:  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.
Photo Date:  11/6/2016  Upload Date: 11/8/2016 6:57:30 PM
Location:  Avalon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WSOR 4007(SD40-2)
Views:  203   Comments: 1
SLRG 101 leads the Graffiti (er, Polar) Express
Title:  SLRG 101 leads the Graffiti (er, Polar) Express
Description:  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.
Photo Date:  11/6/2016  Upload Date: 11/8/2016 7:04:34 PM
Location:  Avalon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  SLRG 101(E9A)
Views:  335   Comments: 1
SLRG 101 in the biggest gap in the tree shadows I could find
Title:  SLRG 101 in the biggest gap in the tree shadows I could find
Description:  The train ran on the first day after the time change...pretty much impossible to avoid shadows by 1PM!
Photo Date:  11/6/2016  Upload Date: 11/8/2016 7:05:31 PM
Location:  Avalon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  SLRG 101(E9A)
Views:  292   Comments: 0
'40s humming along approaching Van Allen Road
Title:  '40s humming along approaching Van Allen Road
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Photo Date:  3/6/2020  Upload Date: 3/7/2020 7:54:25 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4171(SD40-2)
Views:  186   Comments: 0
Clean car, dirty mind
Title:  Clean car, dirty mind
Description:  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.
Photo Date:  3/6/2020  Upload Date: 3/7/2020 7:55:30 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives: 
Views:  114   Comments: 0
T004 power runs light to collect two from DeLong
Title:  T004 power runs light to collect two from DeLong
Description:  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.
Photo Date:  5/6/2021  Upload Date: 5/8/2021 10:48:44 PM
Location:  Avalon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4175(SD40-2) TDCX 7161(SD40-2)
Views:  217   Comments: 1
Up close while the conductor lines the switch and opens the derail
Title:  Up close while the conductor lines the switch and opens the derail
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Photo Date:  5/6/2021  Upload Date: 5/8/2021 10:49:00 PM
Location:  Avalon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4175(SD40-2)
Views:  130   Comments: 1
Pulling two from DeLong out to the main
Title:  Pulling two from DeLong out to the main
Description:  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.
Photo Date:  5/6/2021  Upload Date: 5/8/2021 10:49:14 PM
Location:  Avalon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4175(SD40-2)
Views:  105   Comments: 1
645 Symphony
Title:  645 Symphony
Description:  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.
Photo Date:  5/20/2021  Upload Date: 5/23/2021 1:19:51 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4173(SD40-2)
Views:  130   Comments: 1
Humming along approaching Van Allen Road
Title:  Humming along approaching Van Allen Road
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/30/2021  Upload Date: 7/5/2021 5:30:05 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 6029(SD60M)
Views:  170   Comments: 0
Stopping in front of the DeLong elevator
Title:  Stopping in front of the DeLong elevator
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Photo Date:  6/30/2021  Upload Date: 7/5/2021 5:30:26 PM
Location:  Avalon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 6029(SD60M) TDCX 7161(SD40-2)
Views:  137   Comments: 0


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