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Lunar Over Green |
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2/16/2011 Upload Date: 4/2/2011 12:01:44 PM |
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Duplainville, WI |
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To Wag No More |
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The inevitable has caught up with this WRRS wigwag which stood at the Cherry Lane crossing on ex-Milwaukee Road trackage east of Marshall until 2011. |
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8/22/2012 Upload Date: 8/24/2012 11:49:02 PM |
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Madison, WI |
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To Flash and Ding No More |
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These four Griswold "EM" style crossing gate signals have been retired after more than three decades (probably closer to four or five) of service at the E. Johnson Street crossing at the southern end of this yard. Modern gated signals with ugly, oversized L.E.D. lights and electronic bells have replaced them. |
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8/22/2012 Upload Date: 8/24/2012 11:51:23 PM |
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Madison, WI |
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More decomissioned Griswold components |
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These cantilevers came from the Highland Avenue crossing on the ex-MILW Prairie du Chien line, replaced by more ugly modern crap. |
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8/22/2012 Upload Date: 8/24/2012 11:53:35 PM |
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Madison, WI |
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To Flash and Ding No More 2 |
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This sight was especially heart-breaking since I grew up two blocks from the E. Johnson Street crossing, and some of my earliest memories of watching trains involve these signals. |
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8/22/2012 Upload Date: 8/24/2012 11:57:16 PM |
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Madison, WI |
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To Flash and Ding No More 3 |
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8/22/2012 Upload Date: 8/25/2012 12:07:11 AM |
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Madison, WI |
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To Flash and Ding No More 4 |
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8/22/2012 Upload Date: 8/25/2012 12:17:40 AM |
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Madison, WI |
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To Wag No More 2 |
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Time has also caught up with these two WRRS wigwags (laying flat just below the covered hopper) which used to stand at either the Military Road crossing in Dane, or the crossing in Devil's Lake State Park. |
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8/22/2012 Upload Date: 8/25/2012 12:27:35 AM |
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Madison, WI |
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Abandoned Griswold crossing signal on Union Avenue |
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Rear view, with bell. This is one of less than half a dozen of these unique "rotating stop sign" signals that still stands at a crossing in Wisconsin. Unfortunately, the track that passes it has been out of service for over a decade and is partially dismantled. |
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9/6/2012 Upload Date: 9/15/2012 9:18:32 PM |
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Sheboygan, WI |
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Abandoned Griswold crossing signal on Union Avenue, side view |
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The overgrown tracks are visible passing behind the signal. For more on this ex-C&NW line, see the album "Abandoned and Out-of-Service Railroad ROWs." |
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9/6/2012 Upload Date: 9/15/2012 9:44:00 PM |
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Sheboygan, WI |
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Abandoned Griswold crossing signal on Union Avenue, front view |
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There used to be a stop sign on a motorized shaft in the frame below the lights. When the lights and bell activated, it would spin 90 degrees to face traffic, then spin back out of view after the train passed. |
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9/6/2012 Upload Date: 9/15/2012 9:46:36 PM |
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Sheboygan, WI |
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Signal bridge on BNSF showing high green for a westbound |
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UP signal bridge is also visible in the background at right. I was somewhat (albeit pleasantly) surprised to see the signal bridges here still carrying older-style searchlight signals given the high density of traffic on these lines. |
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9/22/2012 Upload Date: 9/24/2012 12:33:19 AM |
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Rochelle, IL |
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Eastbound cantilevered searchlights CP C&M Sub MP 83.5 (Maple Street) |
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On the right is a dwarf signal for trains leaving Muskego Yard. The Kinnickinnic (KK) River swing bridge is in the distance. |
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5/19/2013 Upload Date: 5/29/2013 3:21:34 AM |
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Milwaukee, WI |
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High green on main 2 at Maple St. for a very late Amtrak #8 |
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7/19/2013 Upload Date: 7/21/2013 1:09:41 AM |
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Milwaukee, WI |
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High lunar |
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7/19/2013 Upload Date: 7/21/2013 1:11:48 AM |
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Milwaukee, WI |
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The lone wigwag on 6th Street |
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This is also the last wigwag left on the ex-Milwaukee Road Prairie du Chien Subdivision, and one of only six active wigwags left on the entire WSOR system. |
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8/28/2013 Upload Date: 8/31/2013 12:49:39 AM |
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Avoca, WI |
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MP 82.38 (Creek Rd.) UP Harvard Sub ABS signal |
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11/10/2013 Upload Date: 1/24/2017 4:31:09 PM |
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Tiffany, WI |
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Distant signal on the CP for the UP diamond is still a semaphore blade |
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6/17/2014 Upload Date: 6/24/2014 6:37:02 PM |
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Mason City, IA |
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This crossing signal on the CP line at President Avenue has a prominent old-school "pinnacle" |
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6/17/2014 Upload Date: 6/24/2014 6:41:06 PM |
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Mason City, IA |
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Another look at the semaphore |
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6/17/2014 Upload Date: 6/24/2014 6:42:22 PM |
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Mason City, IA |
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The MP 172.2 signal shows some sort of approach indication for eastbound train 662 |
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CP Watertown Subdivision. |
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7/21/2014 Upload Date: 8/1/2014 2:25:24 PM |
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Wyocena, WI |
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MP 251.3 searchlight signal on the BNSF Aurora Sub by Lock & Dam #9 shows green for a westbound |
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7/29/2014 Upload Date: 8/4/2014 1:35:52 AM |
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Lynxville, WI |
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A dying breed |
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One of only about four or five crossings left in Wisconsin that still have at least one wigwag, and one of only three that see any sort of regular train traffic. |
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10/24/2014 Upload Date: 10/24/2014 9:38:49 PM |
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Avoca, WI |
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Diverging clear for 287's power to run light into the yard |
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12/6/2014 Upload Date: 12/10/2014 2:51:44 PM |
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Portage, WI |
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Though many comrades have fallen, this wigwag soldiers on into 2015 |
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Vine Street in Baraboo is the last wigwag crossing left on the WSOR Southern Division. There are two crossings (three signals total) in Plymouth on the Northern Division, last I knew. UP has one pair left on their Shoreline Sub in Sheboygan, and that's all she wrote. It's a testament to how common these signals once were on C&NW (and Milwaukee Road) lines through Wisconsin that there are still a few left. |
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1/27/2015 Upload Date: 1/28/2015 6:04:44 PM |
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Baraboo, WI |
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Old Milwaukee Road-era 45 degree crossbuck, 1 of 2 |
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Found two of these very rare MILW relics standing on the industrial spur in Byron. This is looking south on Walnut Street. |
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3/16/2015 Upload Date: 3/18/2015 4:13:27 PM |
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Byron, IL |
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Old Milwaukee Road-era 45 degree crossbuck, 2 of 2 |
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Found two of these very rare MILW relics standing on the industrial spur in Byron. This is looking north on Union Street. The spur goes to the Exelon-Byron nuclear power plant, and probably isn't used very often. |
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3/16/2015 Upload Date: 3/18/2015 4:15:04 PM |
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Byron, IL |
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The old WB searchlight signal bridge on BNSF and its soon-to-be replacement |
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7/13/2015 Upload Date: 7/19/2015 10:58:38 AM |
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Rochelle, IL |
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Stop on Red Signal |
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The Wood Street crossing in Spring Green has "Stop on Red Signal" signs below the lights. These are required by law in Michigan, but quite unusual elsewhere in modern times. In Wisconsin, there are 1-2 other crossings on the Prairie Sub that have them, 2 on spur tracks in Green Bay and 1-2 on the CN main south of Waukesha at last check. |
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12/3/2015 Upload Date: 12/16/2015 2:13:16 PM |
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Spring Green, WI |
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Evening crossing signal |
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The crossing at Boeck Road activates for a short eastbound manifest that was following in 198's wake. Tried to do a pan shot of the power in the low light, but it didn't turn out. |
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12/5/2015 Upload Date: 12/16/2015 4:55:44 PM |
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Portage, WI |
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Green to go east |
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The MP 166 (Salisbury Rd.) intermediate signal displays a clear indication for CP train 470. |
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2/21/2017 Upload Date: 2/24/2017 3:55:55 PM |
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Rio, WI |
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MP 166 signal |
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...or 165.97, to be precise. |
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2/21/2017 Upload Date: 2/24/2017 3:56:43 PM |
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Rio, WI |
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Clear on the main |
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Westbound 281 has just cleared the control point on the siding, and eastbound 280 triggers the approach-lit signal at Lewiston East. |
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4/1/2017 Upload Date: 4/1/2017 10:04:41 PM |
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Lewiston, WI |
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The distant signal on the UP for the switch onto the CP Tomah Sub |
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7/7/2017 Upload Date: 7/16/2017 1:10:04 PM |
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Tunnel City, WI |
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Diverging clear into the east end of the siding |
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Displaying for westbound ethanol train 687. |
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7/31/2017 Upload Date: 8/1/2017 7:36:18 PM |
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Portage, WI |
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Searchlights and crossovers |
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UP Geneva Sub MP 55. Wasted an afternoon and a lot of gas (and a toll) trying to get the UP heritage unit pair on IG2G2 after work, but they'd already gone back east. Decided I might as well grab a shot of one of the few sets of searchlight signals remaining on this line. |
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8/8/2017 Upload Date: 8/10/2017 1:46:01 PM |
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Cortland, IL |
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WRRS cantilever wigwag on display |
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It probably didn't come from too far away, as these were commonly used on the ex-CStPM&O (Omaha Road) line. |
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10/3/2017 Upload Date: 10/7/2017 12:02:59 PM |
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Wyeville, WI |
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WRRS cantilever wigwag and semaphore on display |
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Both probably spent their service lives along the ex-Omaha Road and CNW tracks through here. |
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10/3/2017 Upload Date: 10/7/2017 12:03:46 PM |
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Wyeville, WI |
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Tamarack, looking west |
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This dual crossover is located near MP 144 on the CP Watertown Sub, along the roughly 20-mile stretch of double track from Watertown West to Dodge West. Soo Line single-tracked most of the line west of Pewaukee in the early '90s. |
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6/7/2018 Upload Date: 6/9/2018 3:24:57 PM |
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Reeseville, WI |
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Searchlight serving as the SB distant signal for the CN diamond on the UP Chippewa Falls Sub |
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One of the Pumphouse Road crossing signals is also visible. Both ungated crossings and "real" (mechanical gong) crossing bells are becoming uncommon around Wisconsin, even on branch lines. |
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10/19/2018 Upload Date: 10/26/2018 2:38:56 PM |
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Chippewa Falls, WI |
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The Saemann Avenue crossing, looking west |
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These are the last wigwag type crossing signals left in active service in Wisconsin, and possibly in the country. A UP maintainer soon drove up and tested the wigwags. He told me I'd missed the train, which ran earlier on this day than it typically does (go figure), but at least I got some video of the wigwags swinging anyway. |
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1/29/2020 Upload Date: 2/2/2020 2:56:39 PM |
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Sheboygan, WI |
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The west side (eastbound) wigwag, with the bell |
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1/29/2020 Upload Date: 2/2/2020 2:59:07 PM |
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Sheboygan, WI |
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Back side of the west wigwag standing sentinel for the Saemann Ave. crossing |
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1/29/2020 Upload Date: 2/2/2020 3:15:45 PM |
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Sheboygan, WI |
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Northbound approach on the Church Rd. intermediate signal for Main 2 |
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This is one of at least two sets of intermediate block signals along the double track section between CP Byron and CP Valley along the CN Waukesha Subdivision. |
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1/29/2020 Upload Date: 2/2/2020 8:09:53 PM |
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Byron, WI |
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Still standing...but for how long? |
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Ten months almost to the day after my previous visit. Rumors were that these wigwags were coming down the previous week, but they didn't. |
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11/30/2020 Upload Date: 12/1/2020 10:36:58 PM |
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Sheboygan, WI |
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Harvard Sub MP 82.38 (Creek Rd.) EB searchlight shows red |
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The loaded grain train is occupying the block it protects. With the light traffic on this line, these signals show green the vast majority of the time. |
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12/21/2020 Upload Date: 12/26/2020 7:33:13 PM |
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Tiffany, WI |
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Odd bidirectional GRS searchlight near the depot, looking south (RR east) |
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I was curious about why this was here, as the ex-C&NW trackage west/north of the UP yard in Janesville has been dark territory for many decades. I speculated it might be a crossing activation indicator for the nearby Main Street crossing, but I've been told it's just a display piece to go with the depot. |
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4/22/2021 Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:44:32 PM |
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Evansville, WI |
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Odd bidirectional GRS searchlight near the depot, looking north (RR west) |
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4/22/2021 Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:44:46 PM |
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Evansville, WI |
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Abandoned ex-MILW searchlight signals |
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In the Internet age, it's not often that extant railroad relics previously unknown to the wider railfan community are "discovered," but this seems to be one such case. At least I personally had no idea that these were here until someone posted a similar photo to a Facebook group a couple weeks ago. This is on the former Milwaukee Road line between Janesville and Milton, which was mostly abandoned between Jackson Street and the location known as Anderson, where it crossed over the C&NW's line to Fond du Lac, following a washout in 1989. Then-operator Wisconsin & Calumet secured trackage rights over the C&NW to cover that section, an arrangement which continues today under WSOR/UP. This short section north of Memorial Drive was kept in as a spur, which UP mostly kept full of stored freight cars. Those were pulled a couple of weeks ago, which along with some brush cutting revealed these long-lost survivors. |
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5/1/2021 Upload Date: 5/8/2021 8:43:30 PM |
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Janesville, WI |
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Side view of the derelict northbound signal and gutted control box |
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Parallel ex-C&NW trackage now shared by WSOR and UP can be seen in the background. |
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5/1/2021 Upload Date: 5/8/2021 8:43:54 PM |
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Janesville, WI |
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