Trains from Wausau to Junction City

My project was to take a picture of every car of the train. It looks like there's 3 CN ballast hoppers, maybe they will get to the quarry south of Mosinee? The covered hoppers should be empty, and end up at the 3M roofing granules plant in Wausau.

The green ex CNW hoppers should be coal, but I don't know if its for Rothschild or Tomahawk paper mill.

The boat channel is under the span next to the shore, on the right, where a boat is going under the train. Not much head room; the pontoon boats lower their sun canopies to get under.

One pulp wood bulk head flat. This could have come from Northwest Wisconsin via the WoodTick, or maybe from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan; that might explain the occasional load of pulp wood that moves west past the Waupaca depot web cam.

The grafitti refrigerator cars should be empty and get loaded with cheese at a little siding in Mosinee.

I didn't expect to see empty lumber flats, and I suspect they would go to storage. I don't know where. Did they travel to Tomahawk or beyond? And then went east or west? Is the track north of Park Falls out of service because of the washout at High Bridge, 4 (?) years ago? Is that a lot of un-used track suitable to store cars? Is there access to Marengo Junction and the old DSSA east of there? Is that being used for rail car storage?

I think the green ex Boise boxcars are for paper loading at Tomahawk.

Black tank cars could be empty? for spent wood cooking liquor load out at the Rothschild paper mill?

The trains run every day. Two months later, November 2019, here's a southbound train entering Junction City, going under US Highway 10. (It hadn't started snowing this season yet, that happened the day after this)

I had a stiff wind day, (and only 32 degrees F), and I put the kite and camera up in 5 minutes; that's fast compared to some days. The train goes south and heads east at the junction. It wasn't a long train, but the engines are already past the water tower.

Looking further west, to the right, there is another train waiting; I put an arrow on the picture to point at it.

It's a sand train from the Taylor Subdivision. Waiting. See more about Hiawatha siding on my web page from last year, Hiawatha Sand Train by Junction City, Wisconsin.

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