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Viewing Album:  WSOR Waterloo Subdivision
 
By:Andre Wehrle
Dates:12/29/2006 - 12/29/2023
Album Info:WSOR and CP (Or CPKC, since April 2023) trains on this rickety ex-Milwaukee Road branchline that connects Madison with Watertown. WSOR serves the local industries from the east side of Madison to Clasen Quality Choclate in Watertown; CP has trackage rights for ballast trains to the Michels transload site just east of Waterloo.
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Another rock train prepares to double the cuts of loaded Herzog cars
Title:  Another rock train prepares to double the cuts of loaded Herzog cars
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/3/2020  Upload Date: 6/5/2020 5:19:34 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5936(SD40-2)
Views:  41   Comments: 0
On the main with one set of loads, the other is ready to be pulled from the "pit"
Title:  On the main with one set of loads, the other is ready to be pulled from the "pit"
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/3/2020  Upload Date: 6/5/2020 5:21:28 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5936(SD40-2)
Views:  38   Comments: 0
Conductor climbs on board after catching a lift to County Hwy. G
Title:  Conductor climbs on board after catching a lift to County Hwy. G
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/3/2020  Upload Date: 6/5/2020 5:22:57 PM
Location:  Hubbleton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5936(SD40-2)
Views:  40   Comments: 0
The fishing is good
Title:  The fishing is good
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/3/2020  Upload Date: 6/5/2020 5:23:29 PM
Location:  Hubbleton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6067(SD40-2) CP 5936(SD40-2)
Views:  53   Comments: 0
Grinding up the "roller coaster" toward Berry Road
Title:  Grinding up the "roller coaster" toward Berry Road
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/3/2020  Upload Date: 6/5/2020 5:24:54 PM
Location:  Hubbleton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5936(SD40-2)
Views:  39   Comments: 0
Crossing Berry Road
Title:  Crossing Berry Road
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/3/2020  Upload Date: 6/5/2020 5:25:44 PM
Location:  Hubbleton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5936(SD40-2)
Views:  37   Comments: 0
Empty ballast train 8WWA heading for "Michels Pit"
Title:  Empty ballast train 8WWA heading for "Michels Pit"
Description:  Approaching County Highway Q, one of only three signalized crossings along the branch.
Photo Date:  7/31/2020  Upload Date: 8/3/2020 3:37:41 PM
Location:  Hubbleton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6067(SD40-2)
Views:  65   Comments: 0
Crossing the Crawfish
Title:  Crossing the Crawfish
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/31/2020  Upload Date: 8/3/2020 3:39:24 PM
Location:  Hubbleton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6067(SD40-2) CP 6069(SD40-2)
Views:  100   Comments: 0
CP 6067 on the Peschel Rd. crossing as the counductor lines the switch into the Pit
Title:  CP 6067 on the Peschel Rd. crossing as the counductor lines the switch into the Pit
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/31/2020  Upload Date: 8/3/2020 3:41:10 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6067(SD40-2)
Views:  55   Comments: 0
Ballast conveyor GREX 2800 and a Milwaukee Road ballast hopper
Title:  Ballast conveyor GREX 2800 and a Milwaukee Road ballast hopper
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/31/2020  Upload Date: 8/3/2020 3:42:12 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  44   Comments: 1
MILW 341427
Title:  MILW 341427
Description:  Part of a cut of already-loaded cars that the crew had to pull from the Pit before spotting their empties.
Photo Date:  7/31/2020  Upload Date: 8/3/2020 3:43:01 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  32   Comments: 0
Pac-Man GMDs sandwiched between cuts
Title:  Pac-Man GMDs sandwiched between cuts
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/31/2020  Upload Date: 8/3/2020 3:44:26 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6067(SD40-2) CP 6069(SD40-2)
Views:  94   Comments: 0
Switching Alter Recycling on Sycamore Avenue
Title:  Switching Alter Recycling on Sycamore Avenue
Description:  The typical first stop for L468. They've just swapped a cut of empties for loads that they are about to shove back toward the camera.
Photo Date:  12/9/2020  Upload Date: 12/10/2020 11:04:25 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 4178(SD40-2)
Views:  94   Comments: 0
Sunset Glow
Title:  Sunset Glow
Description:  Instead of adding it to the train which is sitting on the main at left, they shoved this cut of loads into another siding. Then the power pulled through the crossover and coupled back up. I thought (hoped) they were going to run east toward Sun Prairie, but instead they resumed switching, disappearing into the sidings again.
Photo Date:  12/9/2020  Upload Date: 12/10/2020 11:04:56 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 4178(SD40-2)
Views:  91   Comments: 0
Ballast power rolls across Dayton Street
Title:  Ballast power rolls across Dayton Street
Description:  8WWA-24 has just cut off from their string of loads from the "Pit" just outside of Waterloo. Apparently the plan was to wye the power, which would have been a major bummer for me since I had gone after this train in the hope of chasing the SD60-3 leading back to Portage.
Photo Date:  4/24/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:45:26 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6302(SD60-3)
Views:  94   Comments: 0
Never Mind
Title:  Never Mind
Description:  After pulling ahead toward the east leg of the wye (end of the former Watertown Sub Main Track 2), the crew was then told by the dispatcher to NOT wye their power after all, and backed up to collect the train.
Photo Date:  4/24/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:45:42 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 2313(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  32   Comments: 0
Coupled Up
Title:  Coupled Up
Description:  Ready to pull the loaded ballast train around the tightly curving west leg of the wye. Due to the overcast, I decided to try the view from the north side of the tracks, so of course the sun promptly peeked out. Not for long, though.
Photo Date:  4/24/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:46:08 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6302(SD60-3)
Views:  78   Comments: 0
Entering home rails
Title:  Entering home rails
Description:  Leaving trackage rights over WSOR's Waterloo Sub, which CP acquired in 1998 after they sold the line to WSOR in order to retain access to the "Michels Pit" ballast transload site. 6302 is one of the first of the ten "SD60-3"rebuilds done at NRE Silvis, completed just before the "Golden Beaver" paint scheme was reintroduced late in 2017.
Photo Date:  4/24/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:46:27 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6302(SD60-3)
Views:  80   Comments: 0
Tight Turn
Title:  Tight Turn
Description:  The 8WWA loaded ballast train (with a few company Difcos up front followed by the GREX conveyor string) makes a sharp left around the west leg of the wye to go west to Portage on the Watertown Sub main.
Photo Date:  4/24/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:46:46 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  31   Comments: 0
HLCX 6313 switches at Sycamore Avenue with L464 (or 68)
Title:  HLCX 6313 switches at Sycamore Avenue with L464 (or 68)
Description:  Just shoved a cut of loaded gons pulled from Alter Recycling into the pass.
Photo Date:  11/2/2021  Upload Date: 11/16/2021 10:34:20 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HLCX 6313(SD40-2)
Views:  72   Comments: 0
HLCX 6313 pulls its lone centerbeam clear of the crossover
Title:  HLCX 6313 pulls its lone centerbeam clear of the crossover
Description:  They'll couple up to the rest of the train and head east. Sometime during the past 11 months, gates were added to the Sycamore Avenue crossing.
Photo Date:  11/2/2021  Upload Date: 11/16/2021 10:34:36 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HLCX 6313(SD40-2)
Views:  119   Comments: 0
Loaded WWA-13 gets underway from the Pit
Title:  Loaded WWA-13 gets underway from the Pit
Description:  Couldn't catch the empties coming out of Portage in the morning with the repainted SD40-2s leading due to work.
Photo Date:  5/13/2022  Upload Date: 5/21/2022 12:20:44 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 2276(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  41   Comments: 0
Beavers on the River
Title:  Beavers on the River
Description:  I was pleasantly surprised to find out that CP is giving at least a few of their SD40-2s the new Golden Beaver dip, along with PTC capability that makes them able to lead on U.S. mainlines once again. Also notice the DMVW car first up in the train, the previous day a westbound CP manifest had three ex-CN SD60Fs heading for service on that road.
Photo Date:  5/13/2022  Upload Date: 5/21/2022 12:23:33 PM
Location:  Hubbleton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6025(SD40-2) CP 5973(SD40-2) CP 2276(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  125   Comments: 0
Home Rails
Title:  Home Rails
Description:  A small group of CP's company ballast car fleet still carries untouched Milwaukee Road markings...I think there were four in this train.
Photo Date:  5/13/2022  Upload Date: 5/21/2022 12:24:01 PM
Location:  Hubbleton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  32   Comments: 0
Ornis Road at 1445
Title:  Ornis Road at 1445
Description:  One of the few crossings on this branch where I hadn't previously shot one of these ballast trains.
Photo Date:  5/13/2022  Upload Date: 5/21/2022 12:30:44 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 2276(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  45   Comments: 0
Fresh red CP 6025
Title:  Fresh red CP 6025
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/13/2022  Upload Date: 5/21/2022 12:34:50 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6025(SD40-2)
Views:  80   Comments: 0
2WWA-17 rolls across the Crawfish, taking the Herzog set out to Michels Pit to for another trainload of ballast
Title:  2WWA-17 rolls across the Crawfish, taking the Herzog set out to Michels Pit to for another trainload of ballast
Description:  A number of the SD40-2s received fresh coats of "Golden Beaver" paint a little over a year ago, and began appearing on these ballast and other MoW trains (post-merger in 2023, often sharing such duties with KCS SD70MACs, of all things). I had yet to catch one leading until now, and I wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to get a matching pair!
Photo Date:  6/17/2023  Upload Date: 6/18/2023 6:31:41 PM
Location:  Hubbleton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6025(SD40-2)
Views:  34   Comments: 0
The empty Herzog train slows as it approaches the switch to the Pit
Title:  The empty Herzog train slows as it approaches the switch to the Pit
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/17/2023  Upload Date: 6/18/2023 6:33:38 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6025(SD40-2)
Views:  28   Comments: 1
Conductor Steve climbs down to line the switches into the Michels Pit ballast loading site
Title:  Conductor Steve climbs down to line the switches into the Michels Pit ballast loading site
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/17/2023  Upload Date: 6/18/2023 6:34:00 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6025(SD40-2)
Views:  24   Comments: 0
London (Ont.)-built Golden Rodents
Title:  London (Ont.)-built Golden Rodents
Description:  Did I mention I really, really wanted to get one of these repainted SD40-2s leading?
Photo Date:  6/17/2023  Upload Date: 6/18/2023 6:35:02 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6025(SD40-2)
Views:  37   Comments: 0
Just Waiting
Title:  Just Waiting
Description:  Conductor Steve had to walk a ways into the Pit and line several switches before the train could pull in and begin loading.
Photo Date:  6/17/2023  Upload Date: 6/18/2023 6:35:31 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6025(SD40-2)
Views:  56   Comments: 0
Beaver Sandwich
Title:  Beaver Sandwich
Description:  The train pulled into the Pit, coupled onto five loaded WSOR Difcos (both railroads utilize this ballast transload site) and pulled them out to set them out of the way on the main west of the switch.
Photo Date:  6/17/2023  Upload Date: 6/18/2023 6:37:47 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6017(SD40-2) CP 6025(SD40-2)
Views:  41   Comments: 0
Profile of a Red Golden Rodent basking in the sun
Title:  Profile of a Red Golden Rodent basking in the sun
Description:  About to pull back into the Pit, the train will be split into two sections for loading on the two tracks in the Pit.
Photo Date:  6/17/2023  Upload Date: 6/18/2023 6:38:38 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6025(SD40-2)
Views:  73   Comments: 0
Train loaded and re-assembled, 2WWA-17 is now ready to blast off from the Pit
Title:  Train loaded and re-assembled, 2WWA-17 is now ready to blast off from the Pit
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/17/2023  Upload Date: 6/18/2023 6:40:52 PM
Location:  Waterloo, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6017(SD40-2)
Views:  20   Comments: 0
2WWA-17 now eastbound over the Crawfish with the loads
Title:  2WWA-17 now eastbound over the Crawfish with the loads
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/17/2023  Upload Date: 6/18/2023 6:41:37 PM
Location:  Hubbleton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6017(SD40-2)
Views:  18   Comments: 0
Crossing Dayton Street, ready to line the wye switch
Title:  Crossing Dayton Street, ready to line the wye switch
Description:  After rounding the tight curve on the west leg of the wye, the train will run parallel to the Watertown Sub main for a couple miles before joining the double track CTC territory at Watertown West. The switch used to be in Watertown proper, but was moved following a derailment in fall 2015. Prior to that, it used to be standard practice for these trains to run the power around and shove out onto the main via the east wye switch before heading west.
Photo Date:  6/17/2023  Upload Date: 6/18/2023 6:42:09 PM
Location:  Watertown, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6017(SD40-2)
Views:  19   Comments: 0

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