Footage of model trains running at the Titletown Train Show in Green Bay on April 28, 2007. Includes model trains of all scales and descriptions, and plenty of scale grade crossing signal action! Lots of footage of the Moo Crew layout.
On January 17, 2008 (my 22nd birthday!) we caught some pacing action along Highway 16 between Portage and Wisconsin Dells as Canadian Pacific GE AC4400CW 9528 singlehandedly hauls CP Train 185 westbound. Finally we got ahead of him for a runby at River Road just east of Wisconsin Dells. Unfortunately the camera was slow to focus.
The 2' gauge railroad at the Rock River Thresheree near Milton and Edgerton. The locomotive is a Henschel (German-built) switcher modified to resemble a classic American locomotive.
Video by my dad 9/1/2007.
Wisconsin Southern GP38 3806 leads a colorful lashup on a Madison-Janesville train through downtown Stoughton with (at the time) UP-painted WSOR 4010 and recently purchased MILW-painted WSOR MP15AC 1502. Boy does that Geep's horn scream!
In Part 2 we see CN 4714 and its train pull off the swing bridge, clatter over a diamond with a former Chicago Northwestern spur track, cross McDonald Street, and creak through an S-curve into the ex-CNW North Green Bay Yard. Then the crew closes the gate and rotates the swing bridge back open for river traffic.
Soo Line 1913 2-8-2 #1003 ran from its home base at the Hartford Auto Museum to Whitewater, Wisconsin on the WSOR Waukesha Subdivision to be used in a community celebration.
This video shows the 1003 and a Milwaukee Road bay window caboose coming into Whitewater through the Wisconsin St. grade crossing, then leaving a photo stop on the bridge over the end of Cravath Lake.
Riding in the WSOR's cab car No. 11 on August 12, 2007.
Part 2 starts as our train passes the fire-damaged former CNW roundhouse at the north end of the Johnson St. Yard, and picks up speed through the backyards of north Madison, skirts Lake Mendota, and reverses direction just beyond the County Highway M crossing near the village of Westport.
SD70ACe BNSF 9340 and faded but unpatched SD70MAC BN 9601 lead Train 882, coal loads for the Columbia Power Plant, through the Wauona Trail crossing on the east side of Portage. The train is traveling east on the Canadian Pacific MP (Madison) Branch, and will soon curve to the south and take the loads into the plant.
Video by my dad.
A very late WSOR J2 rolls through downtown Stoughton to the clamor of a WCH mechanical crossing bell.
All three of the locomotives have changed in their appearance since this video. The two lead units, SD20s 2052 and 2053, are no longer with the railroad. The third unit, SD40-2 4053, has since been repainted to a special "Grow Wisconsin Map" paint scheme.
Video by my dad.
