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I have finally seen the trackmobile at Brokaw Corn's Wisconsin Rapids storage facility in the East Side Industrial Complex. It has probably been there for a while but I just didn't see it. A lot of the sidings are away from the street. The tail end of the spurs are on the south side of the lot. |
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| The maintenance equipment is parked at the north entrance. The stop light is for the truck scale. |
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The paint is faded and I don't know its age. They also have a large four-wheel drive agricultural tractor (not shown), and a big wheel loader. Either would be big enough to move cars, but don't know for sure. |
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| And a few days later on the northwest side of Rapids, the CN is switching cars on the old Marshfield line (what's left of it). |
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The old main and 26th Avenue cross behind the city gravel yard. This is the switch lead to Thiel Clay. Also, to the right / west a quarter mile is the quarry where gray ballast is loaded in a few GATX hoppers sometimes. |
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| After setting out Thiel's cars, they back up to the yard. |
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| And the Thiele Clay trackmobile is already there picking up the tank cars. |
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. . . . link to last year's page about the Thiel trackmobile
Link back to my index page, Bruce's RailRoad Pictures
my best index page is on the TrainWeb site, as of January 2011.
This page was wrote in May, 2013.
