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Viewing Album:  WSOR Madison Subdivision
 
By:Andre Wehrle
Dates:8/21/2006 - 5/24/2024
Album Info:This former Milwaukee Road line was one of several radiating out of the Capital City to be put up for abandonment by the bankrupt carrier in the 1980s, despite the fact that it connected south-central Wisconsin's two largest cities. Along with several of the others, it was rescued by the state DOT and the multi-county Wisconsin River Rail Transit Commission and operated by short line Wisconsin & Calumet until WICT's takeover by the Wisconsin & Southern Railroad, which today operates the line as the Madison Subdivision. It serves as the main line of the WSOR's Southern Division, ferrying traffic north from Janesville bound for points on the branch lines out of Madison, and bringing traffic back from the branches and the Canadian Pacific's line from Portage to Janesville and the outside world. There is also considerable on-line traffic generated in the communities of McFarland, Stoughton, Edgerton, and Milton Junction. Union Pacific ballast trains to and from the quarry at Rock Springs on the Reedsburg line operated in the summers until 2011. The line was upgraded to continuous welded rail in 2010-11 after two major derailments in 2007 contributed to its being slow-ordered to 10 MPH.
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Starting to pull
Title:  Starting to pull
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/2021  Upload Date: 5/8/2021 8:48:27 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4173(SD40-2)
Views:  69   Comments: 0
Rolling Across Rotamer
Title:  Rolling Across Rotamer
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Photo Date:  5/1/2021  Upload Date: 5/8/2021 8:48:58 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4173(SD40-2)
Views:  97   Comments: 0
Two for One
Title:  Two for One
Description:  As I was passing through Milton I saw the headlight (of 4173) to the west, and drove over to investigate. At first it was just the three units, then to my surprise yet another headlight appeared to the west. This was 4177 long hood forward, coupled to 4179 and a train.
Photo Date:  5/20/2021  Upload Date: 5/23/2021 1:12:21 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4173(SD40-2) WAMX 4175(SD40-2) WAMX 4177(SD40-2)
Views:  139   Comments: 0
Coming in for the joint...
Title:  Coming in for the joint...
Description:  There were two crews working with this group of five SD40-2s, I believe they were the T004 and T006 but not sure which was which or what became of the cars from one of the trains (the train as I saw it in Janesville later was just the cut of covered hoppers). Just another day in the bizarro world of the WSOR.
Photo Date:  5/20/2021  Upload Date: 5/23/2021 1:12:42 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4173(SD40-2) WAMX 4175(SD40-2) WAMX 4177(SD40-2)
Views:  192   Comments: 0
...and now making a cut
Title:  ...and now making a cut
Description:  After combining the 4177/4179 and train with the 4173/4175/4178, they cut off the first four units from the 4179 and ran them ahead of the crossover switch.
Photo Date:  5/20/2021  Upload Date: 5/23/2021 1:13:02 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4173(SD40-2)
Views:  47   Comments: 0
And Then There Was One
Title:  And Then There Was One
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Photo Date:  5/20/2021  Upload Date: 5/23/2021 1:14:20 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 4179(SD40-2)
Views:  47   Comments: 0
WAMX 4179 is now cut off from the train and runs light
Title:  WAMX 4179 is now cut off from the train and runs light
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/20/2021  Upload Date: 5/23/2021 1:15:38 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 4179(SD40-2)
Views:  54   Comments: 0
WAMX 4179
Title:  WAMX 4179
Description:  Formerly WSOR 4010, one of a pair of ex-UP units brought onto the railroad in the fall of 2007.
Photo Date:  5/20/2021  Upload Date: 5/23/2021 1:16:23 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4179(SD40-2)
Views:  120   Comments: 0
Backing down with the quartet
Title:  Backing down with the quartet
Description:  After 4179 was run around ahead of them using the crossover, the other four units backed up to collect the train.
Photo Date:  5/20/2021  Upload Date: 5/23/2021 1:16:43 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 4173(SD40-2)
Views:  56   Comments: 0
WAMX 4179 on the wye
Title:  WAMX 4179 on the wye
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/20/2021  Upload Date: 5/23/2021 1:16:59 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 4179(SD40-2)
Views:  56   Comments: 0
Making the Plan
Title:  Making the Plan
Description:  After running around the other four units, 4179 sits on the wye track that takes the Madison Sub toward Janesville while the conductor radios the dispatcher. I had to leave at this point to keep an appointment in Janesville, but after I got out this unit was sitting on the ramp track behind the roundhouse, so it must have been run there light.
Photo Date:  5/20/2021  Upload Date: 5/23/2021 1:17:15 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4179(SD40-2)
Views:  57   Comments: 0
Dawn of a New Era
Title:  Dawn of a New Era
Description:  This may be the first eastbound run of one of the ex-UP SD60Ms on the WSOR (this one had led T005 into Madison the previous evening), and the first widecab power to operate on the system as part of the "official" roster and not a borrowed/leased/run-through or detour unit since the brief tenure of the F45s in the early 1990s. Notice the bicyclists stopped under the bridge to watch, surprising since most Madison bikers seem to be blind to larger, engine-powered vehicles.
Photo Date:  5/22/2021  Upload Date: 5/23/2021 1:21:46 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 6025(SD60M)
Views:  219   Comments: 1
WAMX 6025 East, T006
Title:  WAMX 6025 East, T006
Description:  The elephant style EMD quartet throttles up to bring the long manifest up to speed as they pass under the Beltline and exit the city of Madison.
Photo Date:  5/22/2021  Upload Date: 5/23/2021 1:22:18 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 6025(SD60M)
Views:  454   Comments: 0
HLCX 6337
Title:  HLCX 6337
Description:  I hadn't seen this since January, and didn't know it was still on the system. I thought it might just have been in Janesville temporarily for repairs, like the widecab Geep WAMX 4023.
Photo Date:  5/22/2021  Upload Date: 5/23/2021 1:22:38 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  HLCX 6337(SD40R)
Views:  67   Comments: 0
ATGX 12351, ex-D&H
Title:  ATGX 12351, ex-D&H
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/22/2021  Upload Date: 5/23/2021 1:22:52 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  31   Comments: 0
Picking up a cut of hoppers from Rotamer Siding
Title:  Picking up a cut of hoppers from Rotamer Siding
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/30/2021  Upload Date: 7/5/2021 5:35:02 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 6025(SD60M)
Views:  90   Comments: 0
Getting rolling from Rotamer West after the pickup
Title:  Getting rolling from Rotamer West after the pickup
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/30/2021  Upload Date: 7/5/2021 5:35:14 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 6025(SD60M)
Views:  120   Comments: 0
Hurry up and Wait
Title:  Hurry up and Wait
Description:  This power set (three of the four units off the previous evening's T003) came up light from Janesville and coupled up to a grain train sitting on the Madison Sub. They then sat for over an hour.
Photo Date:  7/1/2021  Upload Date: 7/5/2021 5:35:58 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 6025(SD60M)
Views:  117   Comments: 0
On the Move
Title:  On the Move
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/1/2021  Upload Date: 7/5/2021 5:36:09 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 6025(SD60M)
Views:  133   Comments: 0
Eastbound crossing M-H Town Line Road
Title:  Eastbound crossing M-H Town Line Road
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/1/2021  Upload Date: 7/5/2021 5:36:27 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 6025(SD60M)
Views:  125   Comments: 0
Here come the troops
Title:  Here come the troops
Description:  T4 has a long string of flats bearing new USMC JLTVs built at Oshkosh; it's shoving around the wye onto the Madison Sub to set out most of the train here, including the military loads.
Photo Date:  11/18/2023  Upload Date: 11/18/2023 6:10:01 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  23   Comments: 0
TPDX 190302
Title:  TPDX 190302
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/18/2023  Upload Date: 11/18/2023 6:17:56 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  22   Comments: 0
DODX 42259
Title:  DODX 42259
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/18/2023  Upload Date: 11/18/2023 6:22:06 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  20   Comments: 0
NS HighTop
Title:  NS HighTop
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/18/2023  Upload Date: 11/18/2023 6:24:59 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  20   Comments: 0
T004 begins pulling what's left of the train toward Janesville
Title:  T004 begins pulling what's left of the train toward Janesville
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/18/2023  Upload Date: 11/18/2023 6:25:57 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 6023(SD60M)
Views:  85   Comments: 1

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