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I used to work in a paper mill. It wasn't a big mill like this one in Wisconsin Rapids. Mills can be impressive places. This is heavy industry, often too big to model (maybe try N scale?). But the rail traffic is interesting, they can get about 60 railcars a day. Anytime I get a camera above the tree tops, a mill is easy to see. There's a lot of color and shapes. From the northwest, there's the CN / former WC / CNW / Soo Line yard. |
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The CN and Highway 34 / 13 come in from the north. This used to be the Milwaukee Road, and the tracks came due south where I marked a black line, right through the VFW hall, and skirted the west side of the paper mill. |
| Looking west, the CN / WC curves west for a mile before swinging south into the current yard. |
| The woodyard gets lots of local pulp wood trucks, and some cars from the WoodTick night train from northwestern Wisconsin |
| This picture was on a good day to fly, no wind and 160 feet of height. This picture is actually a stitch of 2 pictures; the mill is a big place. |
| The Green Bay and Western crossed between the pulp mill and the paper mill, but the tracks don't show in this view. |
| Machine Room |
| On the south end is the River Block building, which used to be mill offices, but is now turned over to the city. |
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The Wisonsin River and Mead Riverview Park. My photo stitching isn't perfect, and I didn't take out the wide angle distortion, but I see its worth coming back again. |
| The dam has tamed the former Grand Rapids. |
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This little yard is east of the river. They store cars for the big mill and the Biron Mill. It's former Green Bay and Western track. |
| The morning mill job hauling clay tank cars. |
| Up the river, on a very calm evening. |
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This page was photographed and wrote in September, October, November, 2016.
