Logo
 
 
12/23/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Andre Wehrle
Dates:9/17/2007 - 9/17/2024
Album Info:This is where it all started for WSOR. Former Milwaukee Road trackage connects Glendale Yard at North Milwaukee to Horicon, where branches radiate west to Cambria (a former through line once connected to Portage), and north to Oshkosh/Markesan. The Plymouth Subdivision also goes north out of Glendale Yard, with ownership alternating between WSOR and Canadian National. A short stub of a former industrial branch through the heart of downtown Milwaukee is still operated from that yard, as well. A few classic and/or unique locomotives can usually be found sitting outside the shops in Horicon.
  Page Controls   View:  Pics Per Page:
WSOR 3802 pulls toward Kettle Moraine Rd.
Title:  WSOR 3802 pulls toward Kettle Moraine Rd.
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/24/2013  Upload Date: 4/29/2013 10:06:09 PM
Location:  Slinger, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3802(GP38)
Views:  155   Comments: 0
Cloud moved away from the sun about 30 seconds too late
Title:  Cloud moved away from the sun about 30 seconds too late
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/24/2013  Upload Date: 4/29/2013 10:16:17 PM
Location:  Slinger, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3802(GP38)
Views:  142   Comments: 0
Tying down in the siding
Title:  Tying down in the siding
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/24/2013  Upload Date: 4/29/2013 10:22:35 PM
Location:  Slinger, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 1502(MP15AC)
Views:  176   Comments: 0
Meet
Title:  Meet
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/24/2013  Upload Date: 4/29/2013 10:25:53 PM
Location:  Slinger, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3813(GP38-2) WSOR 3805(GP38) WSOR 3802(GP38) WSOR 1502(MP15AC)
Views:  497   Comments: 0
Eastbound toward the CN crossover and Ackerville
Title:  Eastbound toward the CN crossover and Ackerville
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/24/2013  Upload Date: 4/29/2013 10:27:34 PM
Location:  Slinger, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3802(GP38)
Views:  149   Comments: 0
Finally departing after doing more switching
Title:  Finally departing after doing more switching
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/24/2013  Upload Date: 4/29/2013 11:59:19 PM
Location:  Germantown, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3802(GP38)
Views:  151   Comments: 0
WSOR 1502
Title:  WSOR 1502
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/24/2013  Upload Date: 4/29/2013 9:42:59 PM
Location:  Slinger, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 1502(MP15AC)
Views:  155   Comments: 1
WSOR 4006 leads T010 a few miles out of the Ackerville yard
Title:  WSOR 4006 leads T010 a few miles out of the Ackerville yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/30/2013  Upload Date: 5/4/2013 1:40:57 AM
Location:  Rugby Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 4006(SD40-2)
Views:  228   Comments: 0
WSOR 4006 approaching Scenic Road with T010
Title:  WSOR 4006 approaching Scenic Road with T010
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/30/2013  Upload Date: 5/4/2013 1:42:52 AM
Location:  Rugby Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 4006(SD40-2)
Views:  266   Comments: 1
On the move again toward North Milwaukee after doing some work
Title:  On the move again toward North Milwaukee after doing some work
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/30/2013  Upload Date: 5/4/2013 1:45:06 AM
Location:  Germantown, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 4006(SD40-2)
Views:  163   Comments: 0
Approaching Mequon Road
Title:  Approaching Mequon Road
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/30/2013  Upload Date: 5/4/2013 1:49:47 AM
Location:  Germantown, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 4006(SD40-2)
Views:  157   Comments: 0
Northbound at the "other" DB Road crossing
Title:  Northbound at the "other" DB Road crossing
Description:  Two ex-Milwaukee Road lines of WSOR's Northern Division cross Donges Bay Road in southern Ozaukee County. Here the L243 Plymouth turn heads north on a bright late spring evening at the easternmost crossing.
Photo Date:  6/19/2013  Upload Date: 6/24/2013 10:35:59 PM
Location:  Mequon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3809(GP38-2)
Views:  277   Comments: 1
WSOR 3809 approaching Buntrock Avenue with the NB Plymouth job
Title:  WSOR 3809 approaching Buntrock Avenue with the NB Plymouth job
Description:  It's interesting to look at Google Maps and see how Thiensville is an "island" within Mequon.
Photo Date:  6/19/2013  Upload Date: 6/24/2013 10:37:36 PM
Location:  Thiensville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3809(GP38-2)
Views:  250   Comments: 0
WSOR 3805 waits to depart with an evening L599
Title:  WSOR 3805 waits to depart with an evening L599
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/6/2013  Upload Date: 10/10/2013 8:11:25 PM
Location:  Horicon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3805(GP38)
Views:  159   Comments: 0
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:  126   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:  141   Comments: 0
WSOR 3804 leads the way as they exit the Bemis spur to retrieve the first load from the runaround track
Title:  WSOR 3804 leads the way as they exit the Bemis spur to retrieve the first load from the runaround track
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/23/2015  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 2:57:06 PM
Location:  Sheboygan Falls, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3804(GP38)
Views:  113   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:  228   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:  210   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:  153   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:  158   Comments: 1
Number One
Title:  Number One
Description:  Monday's ceremonial first revenue train brought two loads east from Plymouth, but only spotted one. The other was left in the runaround track west of Highway TT.
Photo Date:  11/23/2015  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 3:11:42 PM
Location:  Sheboygan Falls, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3804(GP38)
Views:  160   Comments: 0
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:  174   Comments: 0
Rounding the curve at Clifford Street
Title:  Rounding the curve at Clifford Street
Description:  L243 returns light power to Plymouth on the freshly reopened ex-C&NW line. Until about a year ago, this right-of-way had been buried in overgrowth and mud for several decades.
Photo Date:  11/23/2015  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 3:13:55 PM
Location:  Plymouth, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3804(GP38)
Views:  127   Comments: 2
L243 light power returns to town after inaugurating service to Sheboygan Falls
Title:  L243 light power returns to town after inaugurating service to Sheboygan Falls
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/23/2015  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 3:15:18 PM
Location:  Plymouth, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3804(GP38)
Views:  112   Comments: 1
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:  115   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:  114   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:  122   Comments: 3
Ready to Roll
Title:  Ready to Roll
Description:  I was about to walk around to the front of 3928 to snap my own sunny-side shots, when the hiss of brakes releasing warned me to back off! The 645s spooled up, and the power began the trek back to Milwaukee.
Photo Date:  11/23/2015  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 3:56:32 PM
Location:  Plymouth, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 3804(GP38)
Views:  114   Comments: 1
L599 rounds the Wilson Ave. curve en route to grab cars from Slinger
Title:  L599 rounds the Wilson Ave. curve en route to grab cars from Slinger
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/4/2016  Upload Date: 11/6/2016 12:08:33 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3869(GP38-2)
Views:  222   Comments: 0
WAMX 3869 making some noise with L599
Title:  WAMX 3869 making some noise with L599
Description:  Can't beat clean red and gray in bright fall sunshine!
Photo Date:  11/4/2016  Upload Date: 11/6/2016 12:11:14 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3869(GP38-2)
Views:  210   Comments: 0
WATCo's WSOR - Not too shabby!
Title:  WATCo's WSOR - Not too shabby!
Description:  Although changes away from the Gardner era continue as WATCo accelerates its relettering and renumbering of the WSOR roster into its own (3869 and 3871 were 3810 and 3812, respectively), the red and gray still reigns supreme. 3871 was even given a modified version of the scheme in place of its ratty old NdM blue when it was renumbered.
Photo Date:  11/4/2016  Upload Date: 11/6/2016 12:15:02 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3869(GP38-2)
Views:  259   Comments: 0
Peek-a-boo L249
Title:  Peek-a-boo L249
Description:  This job came up from Milwaukee, crossed the CN at Slinger and left cars for L599 to take to Horicon on the pass on the west side of town. Now they are working the yard at Ackerville before heading back east. This is my first encounter with any of the unrepainted ex-UP GP38-2s.
Photo Date:  11/4/2016  Upload Date: 11/6/2016 12:20:00 PM
Location:  Ackerville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3895(GP38-2)
Views:  170   Comments: 0
L249 power at Ackerville, WAMX 3895/3891
Title:  L249 power at Ackerville, WAMX 3895/3891
Description:  3895 is ex-C&NW, and might see ex-CNW rails again if it's ever assigned to Madison. 3891 is ex-Penn Central/Conrail, but still found its way to UP by way of EMD's lease fleet.
Photo Date:  11/4/2016  Upload Date: 11/6/2016 12:22:25 PM
Location:  Ackerville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3895(GP38-2) WAMX 3891(GP38-2)
Views:  380   Comments: 0
WAMX 3895 on WSOR L249
Title:  WAMX 3895 on WSOR L249
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/4/2016  Upload Date: 11/6/2016 12:27:10 PM
Location:  Ackerville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3895(GP38-2)
Views:  205   Comments: 0
Dips and Rises
Title:  Dips and Rises
Description:  L599 has worked its first westbound trailing point customer in Hartford, and now ambles toward Independence Ave. to cut off the cars for Quad Graphics.
Photo Date:  11/4/2016  Upload Date: 11/6/2016 12:27:59 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3871(GP38-2)
Views:  186   Comments: 0
Fully staffed
Title:  Fully staffed
Description:  Not sure if one was a trainee, or if L599 merits a three-man crew for some other reason.
Photo Date:  11/4/2016  Upload Date: 11/6/2016 12:28:46 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3871(GP38-2)
Views:  236   Comments: 0
Two boxcars upfront are for Quad
Title:  Two boxcars upfront are for Quad
Description:  Crew has just made the cut and are about to pull forward to cross Independence Avenue, pull west of the spur switch, take the derail down and shove in.
Photo Date:  11/4/2016  Upload Date: 11/6/2016 12:31:26 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3871(GP38-2)
Views:  210   Comments: 1
Call of the wild goose
Title:  Call of the wild goose
Description:  Apart from being one of only two units in the "updated" WSOR scheme with one fat gray chevron in place of the narrow ones on the short hood, I really wanted to catch 3871 leading because it is one of only two or three units left on the railroad with a well-tuned Leslie RS3L horn.
Photo Date:  11/4/2016  Upload Date: 11/6/2016 12:37:56 PM
Location:  Hartford, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3871(GP38-2)
Views:  230   Comments: 0
Roaring into Rubicon
Title:  Roaring into Rubicon
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/4/2016  Upload Date: 11/6/2016 12:48:09 PM
Location:  Rubicon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3871(GP38-2)
Views:  219   Comments: 0
Red and gray meets red, white and blue
Title:  Red and gray meets red, white and blue
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/4/2016  Upload Date: 11/6/2016 12:49:06 PM
Location:  Rubicon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3871(GP38-2)
Views:  244   Comments: 0
RS3L screaming and 645 roaring, WAMX 3871 charges west on the point of L599
Title:  RS3L screaming and 645 roaring, WAMX 3871 charges west on the point of L599
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/4/2016  Upload Date: 11/6/2016 12:50:11 PM
Location:  Rubicon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3871(GP38-2)
Views:  198   Comments: 0
Who's dat?
Title:  Who's dat?
Description:  'Choo lookin' at?
Photo Date:  11/4/2016  Upload Date: 11/6/2016 12:51:17 PM
Location:  Rubicon, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 3871(GP38-2)
Views:  224   Comments: 0
L243 switches the co-op on a pleasant spring afternoon
Title:  L243 switches the co-op on a pleasant spring afternoon
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/30/2017  Upload Date: 5/31/2017 2:46:13 AM
Location:  Random Lake, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  295   Comments: 1
WAMX 3868 poses in the bright sunshine
Title:  WAMX 3868 poses in the bright sunshine
Description:  Aside from the new number prefaced by tiny reporting marks; this looks like a classic, clean red & gray WSOR motor.
Photo Date:  5/30/2017  Upload Date: 5/31/2017 2:47:14 AM
Location:  Random Lake, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  498   Comments: 0
WAMX 3868 up close with a wide angle lens
Title:  WAMX 3868 up close with a wide angle lens
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/30/2017  Upload Date: 5/31/2017 2:47:56 AM
Location:  Random Lake, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  291   Comments: 0
Hill and dale
Title:  Hill and dale
Description:  The L243 clatters through the bucolic farmlands and woods of east-central Wisconsin, leaving Milwaukee's suburban sprawl behind.
Photo Date:  5/30/2017  Upload Date: 5/31/2017 2:49:05 AM
Location:  Adell, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  311   Comments: 0
Tuesday L243 is WAMX 3868 and two for Falls
Title:  Tuesday L243 is WAMX 3868 and two for Falls
Description:  Approaching County Highway I. Technically one for Falls, since the second car will be switched out for one in the siding at Plymouth.
Photo Date:  5/30/2017  Upload Date: 5/31/2017 2:49:49 AM
Location:  Adell, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  374   Comments: 1
WAMX 3868 and L243 pop out of the woods
Title:  WAMX 3868 and L243 pop out of the woods
Description:  About to round the curve between Blueberry Lane and County Highway U.
Photo Date:  5/30/2017  Upload Date: 5/31/2017 2:50:33 AM
Location:  Plymouth, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  266   Comments: 0
Making good time and looking mighty fine
Title:  Making good time and looking mighty fine
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/30/2017  Upload Date: 5/31/2017 2:51:09 AM
Location:  Plymouth, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  327   Comments: 0


Site Design ©2001-2020 Tim Huemmer
Photos © respective authors
  Contact: info@rrpicturearchives.net