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Western Railroad Discussion > WSOR daylight fun on the Monroe SubDate: 02/22/21 06:44 WSOR daylight fun on the Monroe Sub Author: RSD5 Last Saturday, the Wisconsin and Southern ran an extra train to Monroe, WI during daylight hours. The L355 job normally runs Tuesday night, Thursday night and Sunday morning so an extra train on a bright, sunny morning was a bit of a treat. Especially when it headed back east in near perfect lighting. There are only two rail served customers in Monroe. Badger State Ethanol and Bard materials (seasonal sand and gravel) . BSE is WSOR's largest customer and recently completed a two track addition to their yard (additional 50 car capacity). The inbound train was around 50 cars (grain and empty tanks) and the outbound train was 11 cars of dried distillers grain and ethanol loads. This extra train really peaked the southern Wisconsin railfan network. There were at least 10 guys out shooting images.
Image 1 The crew has dropped off the second cut of cars and is heading back to the east side of the yard to assemble the outbound train. The longest track at BSE holds about 25 cars, so long trains have to be doubled into the yard. Image 2 WSOR (WAMX) 3928 Started out as D&H 7615, B&M 355, UP 1234 and now WAMX 3928 It is a GP 39-2 and painted in WSOR's 35th anniversary scheme. Image 3 Foamer hill More to follow Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/22/21 06:53 by RSD5.    Date: 02/22/21 06:48 Re: WSOR daylight fun on the Monroe Sub Author: RSD5 It's always nice to have a friendly crew. I feel bad for these guys. We have about two feet of snow on the ground and finally had a day above zero yesterday. For the past two weeks, it has been brutally cold with temps in the negative 22 range every night.
Image 4 Friendly crew joking with the railfans Image 5 Crossing a frozen creek east of Monroe Image 6 Rounding the curve at "Railfan Hill:    Date: 02/22/21 06:52 Re: WSOR daylight fun on the Monroe Sub Author: RSD5 Image 7 The small wooden bridge in the previous shot has a slow order so the train slows to 10 MPH, allowing multiple shots.
Image 8 Crossing one of the newly rebuilt trestles on the line. Image 9 About to cross county S in Juda, WI. Last shot of the day Thanks for looking and stay warm! Dave    Date: 02/22/21 07:21 Re: WSOR daylight fun on the Monroe Sub Author: robj Great set on beautiful day.
Bob Jordan Date: 02/22/21 07:24 Re: WSOR daylight fun on the Monroe Sub Author: SP8595 Great catch and shots! Like pic. #5!
Date: 02/22/21 07:30 Re: WSOR daylight fun on the Monroe Sub Author: cozephyr Great opportunity for you and your foamer friends. Was there a hot chocolate dinner after the chase-?
Date: 02/22/21 08:09 Re: WSOR daylight fun on the Monroe Sub Author: MP90 Really nice series.
Date: 02/22/21 08:49 Re: WSOR daylight fun on the Monroe Sub Author: brc600 Great shots of an obscue railroad.
RSD5 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Image 7 The small wooden bridge in the previous > shot has a slow order so the train slows to 10 > MPH, allowing multiple shots. > Image 8 Crossing one of the newly rebuilt trestles > on the line. > Image 9 About to cross county S in Juda, WI. > Last shot of the day > > Thanks for looking and stay warm! > > Dave Date: 02/22/21 10:09 Re: WSOR daylight fun on the Monroe Sub Author: Ritzville Very NICE and interesting Winter series in the brutal cold temps.
Larry Date: 02/22/21 18:16 Re: WSOR daylight fun on the Monroe Sub Author: MP4093 Dave, I would have been out too, but I couldn't, glad you did. Good stuff here, thanks.
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