Paper Mill Crossing

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And a few days later, here's an unexpected morning westbound stopped at First Street. The unusual lighting is from sunrise sneaking at the edge of winter storm Saturn. And the paint on the roundhouse always seems to have an unusual glow in stormy weather.

Now I look to the other side of the Wisconsin River, or maybe, way back to the 1970's. The GBW excursion train dropped off 200 railfans at the riverbank by the paper mill (I doubt if that would happen in modern times.) Everyone was watching the smoking Alco run-by's on the Wisconsin River bridge. Back then, this scene was looking north at the diamond at the paper mill track. It is still a manual gate in this century. With orange signs.

Looking south at the mill lead. The track on the left / east is on the levee of the Wisconsin River. The lower track is where engines and rail cars are half-hidden as seen from the east side of the river.

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And the New Page blue paper mill engine GMTX 200 is on the riverbank in 2013, switching WC Mega-Log Haulers across the main, making for an extra slow approach for the CN train that just left their place at the roundhouse. . . . . . . Scroll right . . . . . . . . . .

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If you hang around in the mornings or late afternoons, either east or west of the mill, and have some telephoto of a camera lens, you may catch the mill switcher racing across with a small cut of cars while the main line jobs are coming along. They can clear that crossing really fast. Here's a link to last years page of September crossing and Aerial views 2011

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Link back to my index page, Bruce's RailRoad Pictures

my best index page is on the TrainWeb site, as of January 2011.