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Baraboo Devil's Lake State Park Eidsvold |
Camron Settlemier sends in this photo taken by a friend
that was on a recent
trip to Wisconsin. The wig-wags are located just a few
blocks east of Hwy.
12 near the Baraboo River, and near a boarded up depot.
According to
mapquest, this is an ex-CNW line.
Two more WRRS Harpes style wigwags can be found at
Devils Lake State Park near
Baraboo, WI on the Wisconsin and Southern-ex C&NW
line west out of Madison.
They are futher west up the line from the wig wags in
Dane, WI.
Photo taken in April 2001.
In a state dominated by WRRS wigwags, this was quite a
surprise to see...
a double set of Magnetic Signal Company wigwags. Dave
gives us more info on this location:
"I have attached 2 photos of wig-wag's that you do not
have listed on your Wisconsin register.
There is also another set of them, but as yet I haven't
found the crossing that they guard.
The reason that I finally found this set is I was chasing
a train & happened to get lucky.
This set guards the WC now CN Minneapolis Sub at
MP 324.1 The guard what is called Road #3
and the name of the town is Eidsvold, if you want to call
it a town anyway.
Its listed on the Wisconsin Gazetteer page 62 A 1.5
I was looking for a road that would
take me back to a great bridge shot when I found the wig-wag's."
11/6/01