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Canadian Railroads > Waupaca WI. CN questionDate: 04/17/26 13:33 Waupaca WI. CN question Author: Kemacprr Been watching the Waupaca Wi. VR camera . What is the industry that they switch out there. looks very impressive. Also what is in the open hoppers that are delivered . Looks almost like coke or large lump coal. I'm guessing that the plant has it's own switcher to move the cars to where ever they are unloaded. . Thanks, Ken
Date: 04/17/26 15:55 Re: Waupaca WI. CN question Author: bobdavis Ken, that plant is the Waupaca Foundry. For a time it was a division of Budd Company. They made iron castings for the automotive industry. When I was with PC/Conrail there was a study at some point to possibly assign some 50ft boxcars there for traffic to one or more auto assembly plants served by PC/CR, but I don't think any of our cars were actually assigned.
Bob Date: 04/17/26 19:03 Re: Waupaca WI. CN question Author: Lackawanna484 Date: 04/17/26 20:59 Re: Waupaca WI. CN question Author: Kemacprr Thanks for the answers to Waupaca. I'm guess the product I see in the hoppers is coke then. Seems to be 2 cars per switch and it looks to be switched once a day so 200 ton per day. I do kmow that GM's Tonawanda Buffalo engine plant did get raw engine casting from a few foundries one being in Ohio and the other in Wisconsin. So maybe this is tha facility. --- Ken
Date: 04/18/26 12:36 Re: Waupaca WI. CN question Author: Quakerengr To add, checked with CN source. The Foundry gets Coke and some steel inbound. There is or was a scrapyard there, along with
an Ornamental Rock Bagging outfit, that also did White Marble. PWM |