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WSOR 3801
Title:  WSOR 3801
Description:  Peek-a-boo! The 3801 snakes around the sharp curve and across Dayton St., startling traffic that cannot easily see the train from the road. The use of train horns has been banned in Madison, but there would probably be several deadly accidents per year if the WSOR ceased using them at the UW Heater
Photo Date:  5/2/2004  Upload Date: 1/19/2005 7:10:36 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 3801(GP38)
Views:  806   Comments: 1
WSOR 2053
Title:  WSOR 2053
Description:  2052 returns from working on the Cottage Grove/Watertown subs. The E. Johnson street yard is WSOR's Madison base
Photo Date:  5/16/2004  Upload Date: 12/15/2004 2:46:45 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 2053(SD20)
Views:  494   Comments: 1
WSOR 2052
Title:  WSOR 2052
Description:  2052 heads up a train headed for the Watertown sub on a mild May afternoon
Photo Date:  5/17/2004  Upload Date: 12/16/2004 2:31:20 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 2052(SD20)
Views:  678   Comments: 0
WSOR 3801
Title:  WSOR 3801
Description:  a side shot of the 3801 on her way out of the yard
Photo Date:  5/17/2004  Upload Date: 12/16/2004 2:37:11 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 3801(GP38)
Views:  1106   Comments: 0
WSOR 2051
Title:  WSOR 2051
Description:  Sisters 2051 and 2052 parallel Locust Dr. in Shorewood Hills on their way west on the Prairie sib
Photo Date:  5/25/2004  Upload Date: 12/15/2004 3:09:29 AM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 2051(SD20) WSOR 2052(SD20)
Views:  712   Comments: 2
WSOR 2051
Title:  WSOR 2051
Description:  WSOR 2051 and 2052 are the power today on MABLT, "The Bullet". The train is at the "Long John" siding, which parallels Campus Dr. as they both pass underneath an interesting suspension pedestrian bridge
Photo Date:  5/25/2004  Upload Date: 12/15/2004 3:15:44 AM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 2051(SD20) WSOR 2052(SD20)
Views:  936   Comments: 0
WSOR 2051
Title:  WSOR 2051
Description:  2051 and 2052 pull WB past the "Long John" siding along Campus drive. Directly behind the units is the UW-Madison Dairy Science Center, home to the UW's milk cows. This is where the delicious and famous Babcock milk, ice cream, and cheese are made
Photo Date:  5/25/2004  Upload Date: 12/15/2004 3:22:36 AM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 2051(SD20) WSOR 2052(SD20)
Views:  893   Comments: 2
WSOR 3802
Title:  WSOR 3802
Description:  The MALAM crew uses the 3802 to guide a dozen or so empty coal hoppers that they pulled from the MG&E plant in the isthmus
Photo Date:  5/25/2004  Upload Date: 5/29/2005 1:00:33 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 3802(GP38)
Views:  446   Comments: 0
WSOR 1202
Title:  WSOR 1202
Description:  WSOR 1202 leads a weed-spraying extra back into the E. Johnson St. yard on a beautiful June afternoon
Photo Date:  6/28/2004  Upload Date: 12/15/2004 1:59:29 AM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 1202(SW1200)
Views:  667   Comments: 0
WSOR 3801
Title:  WSOR 3801
Description:  the 3801 retrieve the rest of their WB cars after having switched the UW-Madison coal heating plant.
Photo Date:  7/9/2004  Upload Date: 12/18/2004 7:03:44 AM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 3801(GP38)
Views:  601   Comments: 0
WSOR 3801
Title:  WSOR 3801
Description:  3801 slices west through campus at another one of Madison's weird grade crossings. Mills and Dayton streets cross at a stoplight and the WSOR's Prairie sub cuts across the middle of the intersection at a 45 degree angle. Traffic can become quite congested here, especially when WSOR crews have to switch the UW-Madison coal heater plant
Photo Date:  7/9/2004  Upload Date: 12/18/2004 7:14:40 AM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 3801(GP38)
Views:  634   Comments: 0
WSOR 2053
Title:  WSOR 2053
Description:  WSOR (ex-IC) SD20 2053 keeps air pumped on an outbound train in WSOR's E. Johnson St. yard in Madison, WI's upper east side
Photo Date:  7/15/2004  Upload Date: 12/15/2004 1:05:50 AM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 2053(SD20)
Views:  683   Comments: 1
WSOR 2053
Title:  WSOR 2053
Description:  As 2053 keeps the air pumped on a train that will depart under darkness, sister 2056 provides the power for the MALAM crew. The MALAM is making an afternoon run to Madison Gas & Electric's coal burning power plant, located on the isthmus between lakes Mendota and Monona
Photo Date:  7/15/2004  Upload Date: 12/18/2004 6:35:42 AM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 2053(SD20) WSOR 2056(SD20)
Views:  653   Comments: 0
WSOR 2055
Title:  WSOR 2055
Description:  The MABLT crew and the 2055 switch cars at the LaFarge cement plant, blocking Stoughton road in the process. The crossing at Stoughton road is the stupidest grade crossing in Madison, making it a contestant for the stupidest in Wisconsin. There used to be an over/underpass here, but some genius decided that routing six lanes of fast-moving, dense traffic under the most hideous crossing lights in the county would be a good idea
Photo Date:  8/3/2004  Upload Date: 12/18/2004 6:46:43 AM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 2055(SD20)
Views:  963   Comments: 3
WSOR 2051
Title:  WSOR 2051
Description:  2051 coaxes a ballast extra past Werner Beach on the southern end of the Reedsburg Subdivision. The ballast is the famous CNW "pink lady" ballast from the quarry in Rock Springs, WI
Photo Date:  8/4/2004  Upload Date: 12/15/2004 3:03:24 AM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 2051(SD20)
Views:  549   Comments: 0
WSOR 2053
Title:  WSOR 2053
Description:  2053 passes a park as it approaches Fair Oakes avenue with two empty gons. Samuels recycling will fill the gons with scrap metal
Photo Date:  8/10/2004  Upload Date: 12/16/2004 2:49:58 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 2053(SD20)
Views:  403   Comments: 0
WSOR 2053
Title:  WSOR 2053
Description:  2053 scampers across Winnebago street on Madison's east side with a couple of gondolas
Photo Date:  8/10/2004  Upload Date: 12/18/2004 6:30:27 AM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 2053(SD20)
Views:  529   Comments: 0
WSOR 3801
Title:  WSOR 3801
Description:  The 3801 heads out the Cottage Grove spur with some cars, passing an intereseting building of unknown heritage (unknown to this foamer, anyhow)
Photo Date:  8/11/2004  Upload Date: 5/29/2005 12:03:23 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3801(GP38)
Views:  460   Comments: 1
WSOR 2053
Title:  WSOR 2053
Description:  2053 rounds the bend towards E. Washington Ave. on "the Bullet", WSOR's train that runs out the Watertown line
Photo Date:  8/12/2004  Upload Date: 12/16/2004 2:46:16 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 2053(SD20)
Views:  492   Comments: 0
WSOR 2053
Title:  WSOR 2053
Description:  2053 waits patiently for the crew of the MABLT to take the "Bullet" out the Watertown line.
Photo Date:  8/12/2004  Upload Date: 12/18/2004 6:18:37 AM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 2053(SD20)
Views:  471   Comments: 0
WSOR 2053
Title:  WSOR 2053
Description:  2053 and the MALPM crew pass by the sunny Werner beach on the northern shores of Lake Mendota. This is just the start of the MALPM's trip- barely 5 minutes from the E. Johnson St. yard, the end of the line at Rock Springs is hours away
Photo Date:  8/19/2004  Upload Date: 12/18/2004 6:25:23 AM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 2053(SD20)
Views:  452   Comments: 0
WSOR 2055
Title:  WSOR 2055
Description:  WSOR 2055 is the power for MABLT today. The crew is switching the bustling Middleton Industrial park, located just west of the Beltline Highway that surrounds Madison
Photo Date:  9/16/2004  Upload Date: 12/18/2004 6:40:47 AM
Location:  Middleton, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 2055(SD20)
Views:  604   Comments: 0
WSOR 3806
Title:  WSOR 3806
Description:  The MABLT crew picks up their long train and starts to pull it out from under the Monona Terrace. The line diverging to the right is the WSOR's mainline to Milton and Janesville
Photo Date:  10/1/2004  Upload Date: 5/29/2005 1:23:36 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3806(GP38) WSOR 2055(SD20)
Views:  760   Comments: 0
WSOR 3806
Title:  WSOR 3806
Description:  The 3806 and 2055 cross Broom street to pick up their WB train that's stored below Monona terrace. It's a pretty big train today, and they'll need the two units
Photo Date:  10/1/2004  Upload Date: 5/29/2005 1:18:00 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3806(GP38) WSOR 2055(SD20)
Views:  810   Comments: 0
WSOR 3806
Title:  WSOR 3806
Description:  An afternoon run to the UW-Heater involves pulling some empties off of the Freeport spur. The Freeport spur is in terrible condition, and the maximum speed limit on it is 5mph
Photo Date:  10/1/2004  Upload Date: 5/29/2005 1:33:02 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3806(GP38) WSOR 2055(SD20)
Views:  798   Comments: 1
WSOR 3806
Title:  WSOR 3806
Description:  These two EMDs coast down the Freeport Spur to pull empty coal hoppers out form behind the UW-Madison coal-fired heater plant
Photo Date:  10/1/2004  Upload Date: 5/29/2005 1:29:22 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3806(GP38) WSOR 2055(SD20)
Views:  660   Comments: 0
WSOR 3806
Title:  WSOR 3806
Description:  The 3806 kicks up dust as it crosses Dayton street to spot some coal loads at the UW-Heater plant
Photo Date:  10/1/2004  Upload Date: 5/29/2005 1:43:02 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3806(GP38) WSOR 2055(SD20)
Views:  1019   Comments: 0
WSOR 3801
Title:  WSOR 3801
Description:  After having switched the MG&E coal burning power plant, the 3801 and 3804, along with a string of empty coal hoppers, are directed back into the E. Johnson street yard by the MALAM crew
Photo Date:  10/18/2004  Upload Date: 3/6/2005 1:31:15 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3801(GP38) WSOR 3804(GP38)
Views:  610   Comments: 0
WSOR 2052
Title:  WSOR 2052
Description:  SD20s 2052 and 2054 throttle up as their train accelerates along Campus drive. This shot was taken from an overhead pedestrian suspension bridge
Photo Date:  11/2/2004  Upload Date: 12/16/2004 2:24:32 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 2052(SD20) WSOR 2054(SD20)
Views:  3807   Comments: 23
WSOR 3801
Title:  WSOR 3801
Description:  The 3801 and crew usher westbound cars along campus drive and the west side of the UW-Madison campus
Photo Date:  2/22/2005  Upload Date: 5/29/2005 11:53:12 AM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3801(GP38)
Views:  500   Comments: 0
WSOR 3801
Title:  WSOR 3801
Description:  A side view of the 3801 as it passes the UW-Madison stock pavilion (like an arena for showing livestock)
Photo Date:  2/22/2005  Upload Date: 5/29/2005 11:57:48 AM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3801(GP38)
Views:  563   Comments: 0
WSOR 3801
Title:  WSOR 3801
Description:  The MALAM (Madison Area Local- AM job) crew switches boxcars of newsprint on the Central Soya spur. Very rarely will trains on this line be seen in daylight
Photo Date:  2/23/2005  Upload Date: 3/6/2005 1:06:32 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3801(GP38)
Views:  558   Comments: 2
WSOR 3801
Title:  WSOR 3801
Description:  WSOR 3801 and the MALAM crew cross over MX, a diamond located in the middle of Monona Bay. It's a reasonably mild day (32) and the bay is packed with ice-fishers. I stood out like a sore thumb when I ran across the ice to get this and other photos.
Photo Date:  2/23/2005  Upload Date: 3/6/2005 1:11:32 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3801(GP38)
Views:  498   Comments: 0
WSOR 3801
Title:  WSOR 3801
Description:  Having finished their work on the Central Soya spur, the 3801 and MALAM crew head back towards downtown Madison
Photo Date:  2/23/2005  Upload Date: 3/6/2005 1:16:45 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3801(GP38)
Views:  587   Comments: 1
WSOR 3801
Title:  WSOR 3801
Description:  WSOR 3801 and the MALAM crew carefully switch Vita Plus, negotiating tight clearances and working around crews making building repairs
Photo Date:  2/23/2005  Upload Date: 3/6/2005 1:25:26 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3801(GP38)
Views:  709   Comments: 0
WSOR 2056
Title:  WSOR 2056
Description:  The MABLT crew turn into the Middleton Industrial park to shuffle some cars around before replacing emtpies with loads. And, of course, it wouldn't be March in WI if there wasn't snow on the ground!
Photo Date:  3/3/2005  Upload Date: 8/3/2005 9:32:11 PM
Location:  Middleton, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 2056(SD20)
Views:  391   Comments: 0
WSOR 2056
Title:  WSOR 2056
Description:  The MABLT crew hustles a handfull of cars out the PDC line to Middleton, WI on a cold March afternoon. The tracks pass underneath Old Middleton road here as they climb out of Madison, WI.
Photo Date:  3/3/2005  Upload Date: 8/3/2005 9:25:36 PM
Location:  Middleton, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 2056(SD20)
Views:  535   Comments: 0
WSOR 3801
Title:  WSOR 3801
Description:  The 3801 is the power for the MALAM today, and the crew keeps busy with yard switching. The 3801 tilts from side to side on the awful rail
Photo Date:  3/29/2005  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 8:40:10 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 3801(GP38)
Views:  472   Comments: 0
WSOR 4050
Title:  WSOR 4050
Description:  4050 and 4051 (leading) head across Monona Bay after having spent some time at the UW-Heater plant on campus
Photo Date:  4/11/2005  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 8:57:39 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 4050(SD40-2)
Views:  625   Comments: 1
WSOR 4050 & 4051
Title:  WSOR 4050 & 4051
Description:  Sisters 4051 and 4050 make a rare appearance on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to switch UW's coal-fired power plant. The SD40-2s are the bread and butter of the WSOR and haul their longest trains from the various WSOR hubs to Chicago
Photo Date:  4/11/2005  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 8:43:05 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 4050(SD40-2) WSOR 4051(SD40-2)
Views:  756   Comments: 0
WSOR 3801
Title:  WSOR 3801
Description:  The 3801 leads the MALAM crew across the fill in Lake Monona on this hot early summer day. The boxcars are destined for the Central Soya spur. The Canadian boxcars contain newsprint, and the blue WSOR empty boxcars will be filled with recycling goods.
Photo Date:  6/6/2005  Upload Date: 6/10/2005 10:52:24 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3801(GP38)
Views:  779   Comments: 1
WSOR 3801
Title:  WSOR 3801
Description:  The 3801 and MALAM crew pull a short train down a once-busy CNW main, crossing over a once-busy MILW main. WSOR now operates on both lines. The line the 3801 is using is used about 3 times per week whereas this portion of the ex-MILW line is used primarily for wye moves.
Photo Date:  6/6/2005  Upload Date: 6/10/2005 10:56:06 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3801(GP38)
Views:  665   Comments: 0
WSOR 3801
Title:  WSOR 3801
Description:  WSOR's 3801 escorts Canadian newsprint cars and empty WSOR boxes onto the Central Soya sub at MX. The MALPM runs up the Reedsburg sub Su-T-R and out the Central Soya spur and Cottage Grove sub M-W-F
Photo Date:  6/6/2005  Upload Date: 10/6/2005 4:12:52 AM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3801(GP38)
Views:  584   Comments: 0
WSOR 3801
Title:  WSOR 3801
Description:  The WSOR provides the power for today's MABLT crew. They've backed some coal loads down the Freeport spur, staging them until the workers at the UW-Heater plant shove them inside with a front-end loader. The end of the Freeport spur holds about 6 or 7 cars.
Photo Date:  6/17/2005  Upload Date: 10/6/2005 5:18:19 AM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3801(GP38)
Views:  488   Comments: 0
WSOR 3801
Title:  WSOR 3801
Description:  The MABLT crew takes the back door into the UW Heater plant to spot some loads inside.
Photo Date:  6/17/2005  Upload Date: 10/6/2005 5:25:04 AM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3801(GP38)
Views:  556   Comments: 0
WSOR 3801
Title:  WSOR 3801
Description:  The afternoon sun may provide perfect light for the 3801 as it ambles down the Cottage Grove spur, but the day has barely begun for the MALPM crew.
Photo Date:  8/3/2005  Upload Date: 10/6/2005 5:30:57 AM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3801(GP38)
Views:  484   Comments: 0
WSOR 2054
Title:  WSOR 2054
Description:  WSOR 2054 leads a half dozen empty coal cars back towards the E. Johnson St. yard in Madison. There's no scheduled morning job on Sundays, so this might be an MEX (Madison extra local).
Photo Date:  8/7/2005  Upload Date: 8/7/2005 12:37:17 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 2054(SD20)
Views:  781   Comments: 0
UP 2997
Title:  UP 2997
Description:  A nose-bell equipped SD40-2 leads two sisters and a loaded ballast train along the Lake Monona shore (and makes a disaster of a traffic jam in the process). Just out of view to the left are some tennis courts scattered with tennis players holding their ears. The sound of rumbling EMDs and squealing flanges may be music to my ears, but I could see how it could bother some... ;-)
Photo Date:  8/9/2005  Upload Date: 8/9/2005 8:33:58 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 2997(SD40-2) UP 2952(SD40-2) UP 2993(SD40-2)
Views:  930   Comments: 1
WSOR 3806
Title:  WSOR 3806
Description:  WSOR 3806 quietly slips through the grade crossing on Bedford and Wilson streets. The crew will take the unit out over MX crossing and back to their train (waiting underneath Monona Terrace).
Photo Date:  8/9/2005  Upload Date: 8/9/2005 8:42:13 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3806(GP38)
Views:  544   Comments: 0
WSOR 3806
Title:  WSOR 3806
Description:  WSOR 3806 cuts across Monona Bay on its way back to its train. Two conductors enjoy the early evening sun from the platform of the locomotive.
Photo Date:  8/9/2005  Upload Date: 8/9/2005 9:43:06 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3806(GP38)
Views:  689   Comments: 0


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