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UP 9446 speeds the CP flood detour toward Chicago as the sun sets |
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The detours were alternating between this line and the WSOR Fox Lake Sub for the leg from Janesville to Chicago. |
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6/21/2008 Upload Date: 7/13/2008 12:24:38 AM |
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Clinton, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 9446(C41-8W) |
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UP 1362 crossing Read Rd. on its way out of the yard |
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1/19/2010 Upload Date: 1/19/2010 2:52:57 PM |
Location: |
Janesville, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1362(GP40-2) UP 1430(GP40-2) |
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738 Comments: 2 |
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UP 1362 crossing the creek on the sweetest RR bridge left in S. WI |
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1/19/2010 Upload Date: 1/19/2010 3:12:56 PM |
Location: |
Tiffany, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1362(GP40-2) UP 1430(GP40-2) |
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669 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
CNW 11216 leads the shoving move |
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1/19/2010 Upload Date: 1/19/2010 3:19:38 PM |
Location: |
Clinton, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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439 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
CNW 11216 in shoving platform service |
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1/19/2010 Upload Date: 1/19/2010 3:58:17 PM |
Location: |
Clinton, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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615 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
UP 1362 shoving down the Beloit branch to switch a customer |
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1/19/2010 Upload Date: 1/19/2010 4:13:49 PM |
Location: |
Clinton, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1362(GP40-2) |
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564 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP 1430 is not straining itself on the return trip |
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1/19/2010 Upload Date: 1/19/2010 4:20:47 PM |
Location: |
Tiffany, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1430(GP40-2) UP 1362(GP40-2) |
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703 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP local starts its return trip from the end of the line |
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6/20/2010 Upload Date: 6/20/2010 9:40:49 PM |
Location: |
South Beloit, IL |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1362(GP40-2) UP 1421(GP40-2) |
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656 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
UP 1362 near Prairie Hill Road |
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6/20/2010 Upload Date: 6/20/2010 9:46:29 PM |
Location: |
South Beloit, IL |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1362(GP40-2) |
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494 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP 1421 ex-SP |
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6/20/2010 Upload Date: 6/20/2010 9:56:01 PM |
Location: |
South Beloit, IL |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1421(GP40-2) |
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340 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UPY 738 last of the head-end power |
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6/20/2010 Upload Date: 6/20/2010 10:00:15 PM |
Location: |
South Beloit, IL |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UPY 738(GP15AC) |
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346 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
The "DPU" power |
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6/20/2010 Upload Date: 6/20/2010 10:06:19 PM |
Location: |
South Beloit, IL |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UPY 686(GP15-1) UPY 718(GP15AC) UPY 559(GP15-1) |
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784 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
UPY 559 pushing across Prairie Hill Road |
Description: |
Hmmm this yellow locomotive...needs some neon yellow! #&@! taggers. |
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6/20/2010 Upload Date: 6/20/2010 10:14:34 PM |
Location: |
South Beloit, IL |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UPY 559(GP15-1) UPY 718(GP15AC) |
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766 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP 9447 will lead the loaded grain train back to Proviso |
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11/10/2013 Upload Date: 11/11/2013 7:36:55 PM |
Location: |
Janesville, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 9447(C41-8W) |
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257 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
After WSOR handled it with four Geeps, UP will use SEVEN units, six of them six-axle GEs, to haul the grain loads on the Harvard Sub |
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11/10/2013 Upload Date: 11/11/2013 7:37:43 PM |
Location: |
Janesville, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 9447(C41-8W) |
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278 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Reflected GEs |
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11/10/2013 Upload Date: 11/11/2013 7:44:41 PM |
Location: |
Janesville, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 9447(C41-8W) |
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219 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Grain train now tied down on the main adjacent to the yard |
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11/7/2020 Upload Date: 11/8/2020 6:15:30 PM |
Location: |
Janesville, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 6651(CM44AC) |
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159 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP 1025 flies across County J leading a sister on LJA50 |
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11/7/2020 Upload Date: 11/8/2020 6:20:06 PM |
Location: |
Janesville, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1025(GP60) |
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158 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
FXE 3173, Grupo México Transportes |
Description: |
Third out on a train of grain loads from Landmark at Evansville. Not sure if this is a new or old Ferromex scheme, but I've never seen it before although I prefer the more colorful one found on their GEVOs. |
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12/21/2020 Upload Date: 12/21/2020 7:34:42 PM |
Location: |
Janesville, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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FXE 3173(SD40-2) |
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339 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
UP 8249 will lead the grain loads to Proviso |
Description: |
7521 was added to the train earlier in the day, 8249 and 3173 had handled the empties into Evansville a few days earlier. |
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12/21/2020 Upload Date: 12/22/2020 12:01:34 AM |
Location: |
Janesville, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 8249(ES44AC-H) UP 7521(AC45CCTE) FXE 3173(SD40-2) |
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206 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The grain loads get underway in the last rays of winter solstice twilight |
Description: |
After occasionally finding these loaded grain trains staged on the main here over the last seven years, this is the first time I've witnessed one actually get moving east toward Proviso! Ten more minutes and it would have been another bust, as I would have given up for lack of light and started for home. |
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12/21/2020 Upload Date: 12/22/2020 12:02:42 AM |
Location: |
Janesville, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 8249(ES44AC-H) |
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165 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
FXE 3173 |
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12/21/2020 Upload Date: 12/22/2020 12:13:56 AM |
Location: |
Janesville, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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FXE 3173(SD40-2) |
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160 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
FXE 3173 |
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12/21/2020 Upload Date: 12/22/2020 12:15:29 AM |
Location: |
Janesville, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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FXE 3173(SD40-2) |
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206 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Blue Hour |
Description: |
EVENTUALLY I'll get a train on the five-arch stone bridge just east of here in good light...but not today. |
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12/21/2020 Upload Date: 12/22/2020 12:18:06 AM |
Location: |
Tiffany, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 8249(ES44AC-H) |
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152 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Local Over the Arches |
Description: |
This ex-C&NW stone arch bridge (there are actually five arches, one is off-camera to the left but it is obstructed by trees from the south side) is one of the real gems of southern Wisconsin railfanning. Its somewhat off-the-beaten-path location and the sporadic/sneaky nature of train traffic on the line from Harvard to Janesville, particularly westbounds in daylight, means getting a shot here requires some perseverance. I finally did so again almost 11 years after the last one (and that was badly backlit, from the north side in the morning). Now I have to come back and do it again when the sun's out! I believe this is the YJA65 job. I found them just finishing up their work in Clinton, and had plenty of time to get over here and set up. |
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1/3/2021 Upload Date: 1/4/2021 9:46:27 PM |
Location: |
Tiffany, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1145(GP60) |
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115 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP local trundles along the tree-lined ex-R&SW |
Description: |
Running back to Janesvillle after switching DeLong in South Beloit. This is a small remaining segment of the ex-Milwaukee Road Racine & Southwestern Division and one of the few if not the only segments of UP trackage in Wisconsin that is not ex-Chicago & North Western. Other portions are operated by WSOR as their Bardwell-Elkhorn branch and by CN as an industrial spur at Burlington. CP abandoned their segment from Sturtevant to Kansasville a few years ago. |
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1/17/2021 Upload Date: 1/19/2021 1:51:56 PM |
Location: |
Clinton, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1107(GP60) |
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78 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
(Not quite) dashing through the snow |
Description: |
It's kind of sad to see the GP60s, built for speed with a quite high horsepower rating over four axles, relegated to branch line locals. |
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1/17/2021 Upload Date: 1/19/2021 2:28:23 PM |
Location: |
Clinton, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1107(GP60) |
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121 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
CNW 178532 |
Description: |
I've seen a lot of covered hoppers still retaining the C&NW logo and number, but not still running under the company reporting marks. |
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1/17/2021 Upload Date: 1/19/2021 2:33:55 PM |
Location: |
Clinton, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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54 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
CNW 178087 |
Description: |
Second of four hoppers with full C&NW markings in the UP local's train today. |
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1/17/2021 Upload Date: 1/19/2021 2:35:21 PM |
Location: |
Clinton, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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64 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
CNW 178087 - "Employee Owned" |
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1/17/2021 Upload Date: 1/19/2021 2:36:42 PM |
Location: |
Clinton, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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56 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
CNW 174895 |
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1/17/2021 Upload Date: 1/19/2021 2:45:24 PM |
Location: |
Clinton, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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60 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
CNW 178297 |
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1/17/2021 Upload Date: 1/19/2021 8:07:42 PM |
Location: |
Clinton, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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Title: |
UP 1145 brings up the rear of the train from South Beloit |
Description: |
It will lead when the train reverses direction to head from Clinton to Janesville. The conductor is already in the cab. |
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1/17/2021 Upload Date: 1/19/2021 8:17:41 PM |
Location: |
Clinton, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1145(GP60) |
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99 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Climbing the hill into town past Scot Forge |
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1/17/2021 Upload Date: 1/19/2021 9:03:31 PM |
Location: |
Clinton, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1107(GP60) |
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111 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Five Arches |
Description: |
Kind of irritating that the only the north side of this bridge is uncluttered enough to get the entire length in the shot, so you're limited to cloudy days, of which there has been no shortage this January! |
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1/17/2021 Upload Date: 1/19/2021 9:05:01 PM |
Location: |
Tiffany, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1145(GP60) |
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125 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
YJA65 departs for a Sunday SoBo run |
Description: |
The three boxcars and the balance of the covered hoppers would be dropped somewhere en route (probably Clinton), the train arrived in Beloit with just two hoppers. |
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2/21/2021 Upload Date: 2/28/2021 8:23:53 PM |
Location: |
Janesville, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1025(GP60) |
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103 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Entering the ABS-controlled main at MP 87 |
Description: |
This local runs with power on each end to facilitate a reversal in direction at Clinton to head down the ex-Milwaukee Road R&SW Division to Beloit and South Beloit (IL). Everything but the two hoppers closest to 1145 will be dropped at Clinton. You can see from the orange conduit sticking out of the ground, preparations are underway for the replacement of the venerable searchlight signals along this portion of the line (which were themselves salvaged by C&NW from an ex-CGW line to replace the original semaphores on this line). |
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2/21/2021 Upload Date: 2/28/2021 8:24:08 PM |
Location: |
Janesville, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1145(GP60) |
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119 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Prospect Street |
Description: |
The YJA65 runs parallel to and just on the WI side of the state line, on what was once the tracks of the Milwaukee Road's Racine & Southwestern Division. This portion of the line is owned by, and jointly operated with, CP. Just ahead, the train will bend to the left and switch onto a small remaining portion of the ex-C&NW alignment to reach customers in South Beloit, IL. |
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2/21/2021 Upload Date: 2/28/2021 8:34:25 PM |
Location: |
Beloit, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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Locomotives: |
UP 1145(GP60) |
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94 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Colorful tag job on CHTT 720366 |
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2/21/2021 Upload Date: 2/28/2021 8:35:16 PM |
Location: |
Beloit, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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Title: |
Gateway to Wisconsin |
Description: |
The two GP60s bracketing two covered hoppers trundle away. Just beyond the leftward curve in the distance, this ex-Milwaukee Road line once crossed the C&NW line which ran from Harvard (and Chicago) north to Janesville (or direct to Madison via Evansville off a split at Afton). The train will use a small remaining portion of that line to access customers at South Beloit. |
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2/21/2021 Upload Date: 2/28/2021 8:35:28 PM |
Location: |
Beloit, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1025(GP60) |
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107 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Just crossed the state line, cutting off the lead unit to work Behr |
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2/21/2021 Upload Date: 2/28/2021 8:39:34 PM |
Location: |
South Beloit, IL |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1145(GP60) |
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71 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Reversing through the switch onto the Behr lead |
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2/21/2021 Upload Date: 2/28/2021 8:40:21 PM |
Location: |
South Beloit, IL |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1145(GP60) |
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108 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Backing down the Behr lead with the rest of the train on the main |
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2/21/2021 Upload Date: 2/28/2021 8:42:32 PM |
Location: |
South Beloit, IL |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1145(GP60) |
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79 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Blast the horn and pray |
Description: |
The Behr spur's crossing of the busy Blackhawk Boulevard is marked only by a lone crossbuck on the northbound side. |
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2/21/2021 Upload Date: 2/28/2021 8:42:45 PM |
Location: |
South Beloit, IL |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1145(GP60) |
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106 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Coupling up to a pair of empties left just east of Blackhawk |
Description: |
Some loads further back in the spur need to be pulled, then these will be shoved back in so Behr can get to them. |
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2/21/2021 Upload Date: 2/28/2021 8:42:57 PM |
Location: |
South Beloit, IL |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1145(GP60) |
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74 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Pulling a string of loaded gons from the Behr spur |
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2/21/2021 Upload Date: 2/28/2021 8:43:09 PM |
Location: |
South Beloit, IL |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1145(GP60) |
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86 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The kamikaze crossing of Blackhawk |
Description: |
Only a lone crossbuck (on the northbound side of the road, just off camera to the right) marks the Behr spur's crossing of this busy four-lane road. |
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2/21/2021 Upload Date: 2/28/2021 8:43:20 PM |
Location: |
South Beloit, IL |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1145(GP60) |
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117 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Spotting the two empties back in place for Behr to grab later |
Description: |
Per satellite views, Behr has a center-cab switcher on their property which they will use to move the cars into position for unloading. |
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2/21/2021 Upload Date: 2/28/2021 8:43:30 PM |
Location: |
South Beloit, IL |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 1145(GP60) |
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107 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Rolling for DeLong as snow and sleet begin to fall |
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2/21/2021 Upload Date: 2/28/2021 8:43:56 PM |
Location: |
South Beloit, IL |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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Locomotives: |
UP 1145(GP60) |
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81 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
YJA65 in "push-pull" configuration crosses Blackhawk Boulevard |
Description: |
Just south of the barely-marked Behr spur crossing, the "main" line's (ex-C&NW Chicago/Harvard-Janesville/Madison) crossing of Blackhawk Blvd. has four signals on the shoulders and median. Interestingly, photos from the C&NW era show there were gates here then - a rare example of crossing protection being "downgraded." |
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2/21/2021 Upload Date: 2/28/2021 8:44:12 PM |
Location: |
South Beloit, IL |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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Locomotives: |
UP 1025(GP60) |
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113 Comments: 0 |
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