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Things are brightening up
Title:  Things are brightening up
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/7/2014  Upload Date: 10/8/2014 2:08:25 PM
Location:  Oregon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  327   Comments: 0
"It's gonna be a bumpy ride!"
Title:  "It's gonna be a bumpy ride!"
Description:  With the sand cars still loaded and not ready to be pulled, the crew will shove their empty ballast train all the way back to Madison.
Photo Date:  10/7/2014  Upload Date: 10/8/2014 2:16:16 PM
Location:  Oregon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  432   Comments: 0
I'm now 2/2 on cloud-boinking at this little bridge along Syene Road
Title:  I'm now 2/2 on cloud-boinking at this little bridge along Syene Road
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Photo Date:  10/7/2014  Upload Date: 10/8/2014 2:18:47 PM
Location:  Fitchburg, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  344   Comments: 0
Shoving up the Syene Sag
Title:  Shoving up the Syene Sag
Description:  Moments after the sun peeks out from yet another cloud boink. The back end of the train reached the Highway 14 bridge at the same time I did on my drive back into Madison.
Photo Date:  10/7/2014  Upload Date: 10/8/2014 2:22:02 PM
Location:  Fitchburg, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  337   Comments: 0
WAMX 3928 is power for L469 with one for Vita Plus on the old Soya Spur
Title:  WAMX 3928 is power for L469 with one for Vita Plus on the old Soya Spur
Description:  Train has just come across MX and is approaching Lakeside Street.
Photo Date:  10/20/2014  Upload Date: 10/20/2014 9:47:57 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  360   Comments: 0
L469 returns light engine from Vita Plus, approaching Park Street
Title:  L469 returns light engine from Vita Plus, approaching Park Street
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/20/2014  Upload Date: 10/20/2014 9:49:50 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  285   Comments: 0
WAMX 3928 approaching Beld Street as a light engine L469
Title:  WAMX 3928 approaching Beld Street as a light engine L469
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/20/2014  Upload Date: 10/20/2014 9:51:28 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  357   Comments: 0
WAMX 3928 crossing Beld Street on the old Central Soya spur
Title:  WAMX 3928 crossing Beld Street on the old Central Soya spur
Description:  The former C&NW Ridge Runner line to southwest Wisconsin was cut back to Fitchburg in the 80s, then cut back even further c. 2005. Only two customers, Vita Plus and Capital Newspapers, are served in the Fish Hatchery Road area.
Photo Date:  10/20/2014  Upload Date: 10/20/2014 9:57:55 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  466   Comments: 1
Dwarfed by the Capitol dome, WAMX 3928 creeps toward the MX connector switch
Title:  Dwarfed by the Capitol dome, WAMX 3928 creeps toward the MX connector switch
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/20/2014  Upload Date: 10/20/2014 10:16:45 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  305   Comments: 0
WAMX 3928 heads north through the Isthmus
Title:  WAMX 3928 heads north through the Isthmus
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/20/2014  Upload Date: 10/20/2014 10:24:35 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  269   Comments: 0
L469 heads back to the yard with a 10 car train from the McFarland industrial park
Title:  L469 heads back to the yard with a 10 car train from the McFarland industrial park
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/20/2014  Upload Date: 10/20/2014 10:27:07 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  288   Comments: 0
WAMX 3928 leads L469 long hood forward approaching Paterson Street
Title:  WAMX 3928 leads L469 long hood forward approaching Paterson Street
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/20/2014  Upload Date: 10/20/2014 10:29:07 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  307   Comments: 0
L469 crosses Wingra Creek on the way back from Vita Plus with one
Title:  L469 crosses Wingra Creek on the way back from Vita Plus with one
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/10/2014  Upload Date: 11/11/2014 1:31:22 AM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  306   Comments: 0
WSOR 3801
Title:  WSOR 3801
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/6/2015  Upload Date: 10/8/2015 10:43:49 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Jacob Sheffield
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  WSOR 3801(GP38) WSOR 4050(SD40-2) WAMX 3947(GP39-2) WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  435   Comments: 0
T6
Title:  T6
Description:  A Janesville-bound freight crosses MX in the middle of frozen Monona bay on its way out of town.
Photo Date:  2/15/2015  Upload Date: 2/15/2015 6:37:32 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 4012(SD40-2) WSOR 4079(SD40M-2) WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  332   Comments: 0
T6
Title:  T6
Description:  A T6 (Madison to Janesville freight) curves around the junction at tower MX on a frigid Sunday.
Photo Date:  2/15/2015  Upload Date: 2/15/2015 6:42:55 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 4012(SD40-2) WSOR 4079(SD40M-2) WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  386   Comments: 1
T6
Title:  T6
Description:  It's cold enough to keep most of the ice fisherman away today, but the Wisconsin and Southern pulls on.
Photo Date:  2/15/2015  Upload Date: 2/15/2015 6:54:07 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 4012(SD40-2) WSOR 4079(SD40M-2) WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  299   Comments: 0
The red and gray still rules
Title:  The red and gray still rules
Description:  The purchase of Wisconsin and Southern by WATCo was widely speculated to be the end of units being painted in WSOR's classy red and gray scheme. They proved that wrong with the former ugly duckling ex-UP GP39-2 3928.
Photo Date:  6/29/2015  Upload Date: 6/29/2015 4:34:37 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 1503(MP15AC) WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  325   Comments: 0
The repainted WAMX 3928 switching on the north end of the yard
Title:  The repainted WAMX 3928 switching on the north end of the yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/2/2015  Upload Date: 7/6/2015 5:41:00 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  221   Comments: 0
WAMX 3928 on L465 about to make a pick-up in the industrial park
Title:  WAMX 3928 on L465 about to make a pick-up in the industrial park
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/7/2015  Upload Date: 7/7/2015 5:36:25 PM
Location:  Middleton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  253   Comments: 0
WAMX 3928 leads the four-car L465 crossing Stonefield Road
Title:  WAMX 3928 leads the four-car L465 crossing Stonefield Road
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/7/2015  Upload Date: 7/7/2015 5:37:13 PM
Location:  Middleton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  369   Comments: 0
WAMX 3928 crossing Wilson/Bedford Streets downtown
Title:  WAMX 3928 crossing Wilson/Bedford Streets downtown
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/7/2015  Upload Date: 7/7/2015 5:37:54 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  294   Comments: 1
WAMX 3928 and L465 approach Johnson St. and the yard entrance
Title:  WAMX 3928 and L465 approach Johnson St. and the yard entrance
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/7/2015  Upload Date: 7/7/2015 5:40:54 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  262   Comments: 0
WAMX 3928 hustles a WSOR B400 business extra back into town
Title:  WAMX 3928 hustles a WSOR B400 business extra back into town
Description:  E9A WSOR 101 is trailing. This was a customer appreciation special that made a round trip to Milton and back.
Photo Date:  7/15/2015  Upload Date: 7/20/2015 5:45:37 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2) WSOR 101(E9A)
Views:  388   Comments: 0
WAMX 3928 leads WSOR 3801 on a local crossing M-H Town Line Road
Title:  WAMX 3928 leads WSOR 3801 on a local crossing M-H Town Line Road
Description:  Running from Milton to Janesville with one car.
Photo Date:  8/1/2015  Upload Date: 8/1/2015 9:08:32 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Jim Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  580   Comments: 0
WSOR 4007
Title:  WSOR 4007
Description:  West of Janesville.
Photo Date:  8/4/2015  Upload Date: 1/31/2017 1:14:28 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WSOR 4007(SD40-2) WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  315   Comments: 0
Fall in Wisconsin
Title:  Fall in Wisconsin
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/22/2015  Upload Date: 10/23/2015 9:12:06 PM
Location:  Spring Green, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 4053(SD40-2) WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  273   Comments: 0
Move along people, nothing to see here
Title:  Move along people, nothing to see here
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/22/2015  Upload Date: 10/23/2015 9:14:34 PM
Location:  Spring Green, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 4053(SD40-2) WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  286   Comments: 0
Solid gold
Title:  Solid gold
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/22/2015  Upload Date: 10/23/2015 9:44:01 PM
Location:  Avoca, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 4053(SD40-2) WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  233   Comments: 0
WSOR (WAMX) 3928
Title:  WSOR (WAMX) 3928
Description:  This WSOR unit evidently goes under the auspices of WAMX 3928. A sharp looking unit, spotted here in Madison, WI.
Photo Date:  11/11/2015  Upload Date: 10/19/2016 8:42:43 AM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  8170   Comments: 1
WSOR 3928
Title:  WSOR 3928
Description:  A nice find hiding in the Johnson Street Yard in Madison.
Photo Date:  11/11/2015  Upload Date: 10/29/2017 5:55:13 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  WSOR 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  581   Comments: 2
WAMX 3928
Title:  WAMX 3928
Description:  Looking southwest into the WSOR, former C&NW, yard at Madison, WI on 11 Nov. '15. Part of the former MILW yard is also still in use, out of frame to right. The former MILW mainline, now CP, is out of frame below.
Photo Date:  11/11/2015  Upload Date: 2/7/2016 1:56:47 AM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  T. P. Bruss
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  173   Comments: 1
Testing out the Bemis spur on the newly reopened ex-C&NW line
Title:  Testing out the Bemis spur on the newly reopened ex-C&NW line
Description:  After another rebuild project resurrected this long out of service stretch of track in 2014-15, the inaugural revenue run took place on Monday, November 23rd.
Photo Date:  11/23/2015  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 2:55:06 PM
Location:  Sheboygan Falls, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  130   Comments: 0
Welcome to Bemis
Title:  Welcome to Bemis
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/23/2015  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 2:56:06 PM
Location:  Sheboygan Falls, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2) WSOR 3804(GP38)
Views:  145   Comments: 0
35 Years Serving Customers & Communities - which now includes Sheboygan Falls!
Title:  35 Years Serving Customers & Communities - which now includes Sheboygan Falls!
Description:  There are a lot of communities in the southern two-thirds of Wisconsin that would not have the level of freight rail service (if any at all) that they do today if not for the state and county-level rail transit preservation efforts that began in the early '80s and culminated in today's WSOR.
Photo Date:  11/23/2015  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 2:59:00 PM
Location:  Sheboygan Falls, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  233   Comments: 2
L243 power poses for more photos on the Bemis spur
Title:  L243 power poses for more photos on the Bemis spur
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/23/2015  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 2:59:53 PM
Location:  Sheboygan Falls, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2) WSOR 3804(GP38)
Views:  214   Comments: 2
L243 power leaving the Bemis spur to grab a load
Title:  L243 power leaving the Bemis spur to grab a load
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/23/2015  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 3:02:17 PM
Location:  Sheboygan Falls, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  157   Comments: 1
Exploring new territory
Title:  Exploring new territory
Description:  For both WAMX 3928 (which has been assigned to the Southern Division for the bulk of its WSOR career), and for the WSOR itself!
Photo Date:  11/23/2015  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 3:07:49 PM
Location:  Sheboygan Falls, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  160   Comments: 1
Spotted!
Title:  Spotted!
Description:  In the west Bemis spur. There's another, shorter spur to the east.
Photo Date:  11/23/2015  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 3:12:58 PM
Location:  Sheboygan Falls, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2) WSOR 3804(GP38)
Views:  177   Comments: 0
WAMX 3928 going away at Clifford Street
Title:  WAMX 3928 going away at Clifford Street
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/23/2015  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 3:16:50 PM
Location:  Plymouth, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  119   Comments: 1
L243 power poses at the switch between the dual depots
Title:  L243 power poses at the switch between the dual depots
Description:  Ex-MILW on left, ex-CNW on right. The CNW track used to run in front of the depot, right where I am kneeling.
Photo Date:  11/23/2015  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 3:18:06 PM
Location:  Plymouth, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  117   Comments: 0
Admirers inspect WAMX 3928 following the opening of service to Sheboygan Falls
Title:  Admirers inspect WAMX 3928 following the opening of service to Sheboygan Falls
Description:  This ex-D&H/UP GP39-2 is one of two brought onto the WSOR system by new owner Watco in 2014. In summer 2015 it was painted into full WSOR livery to commemorate the railroad's 35th anniversary. Sister 3947 remains in its patched UP yellow.
Photo Date:  11/23/2015  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 3:19:10 PM
Location:  Plymouth, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  124   Comments: 3
Departure track
Title:  Departure track
Description:  L464 has traffic on Johnson Street halted as it rolls out of the yard. At the rear of the train is a cut of yellow INRD ballast hoppers for the pit east of Waterloo.
Photo Date:  3/10/2016  Upload Date: 3/18/2016 9:14:40 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  75   Comments: 0
Motley Crew
Title:  Motley Crew
Description:  Hogger Adam on the left, conductor trainee A.J. on the right.
Photo Date:  3/10/2016  Upload Date: 3/18/2016 9:15:35 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  73   Comments: 0
A study in grime
Title:  A study in grime
Description:  The newest (and likely last) red and gray paint job is, unfortunately, filthy.
Photo Date:  3/10/2016  Upload Date: 3/18/2016 9:16:11 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  75   Comments: 0
Salute!
Title:  Salute!
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/10/2016  Upload Date: 3/18/2016 9:17:01 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  97   Comments: 0
Setting out the cars on the bay...not wasting time!
Title:  Setting out the cars on the bay...not wasting time!
Description:  The power will run light out the ex-MILW Madison Sub to pick up more cars from the McFarland industrial park.
Photo Date:  4/20/2016  Upload Date: 4/22/2016 4:27:19 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2) WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  149   Comments: 0
WAMX 3928
Title:  WAMX 3928
Description:  The evening local is Middleton-bound as it passes under University Avenue on the Prairie sub.
Photo Date:  5/9/2016  Upload Date: 9/6/2016 10:12:47 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2)
Views:  98   Comments: 0
Up the Hill
Title:  Up the Hill
Description:  The crew has their ponies pulling hard on the Lycon loads as they head out of town. They're about to pass through a rock cut and under Badger road and the Beltline highway. In the distance you can see the junction with the Vita Spur near Olin Avenue. Some of Madison's newer (and pricier) high rise apartments and condos loom in the distance, a stark contrast to my photo location on Badger road.
Photo Date:  5/20/2016  Upload Date: 12/25/2016 3:39:05 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2) WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  146   Comments: 0
Sunny Sunday Morning
Title:  Sunny Sunday Morning
Description:  The Sunday morning local crew ushers a string of 20 or so aggregate loads through the Isthmus on their way to the Oregon line. They are currently crossing Blount street.
Photo Date:  5/20/2016  Upload Date: 12/25/2016 11:41:00 AM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3928(GP39-2) WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  116   Comments: 0


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