WAMX 4197 crawls through Arena with an empty unit grain train.
L724 briefly gets to crank them up to 25 MPH as they hook the curve at Blynn Road. For the next 50 or so miles between here and Woodman, curves are a pretty rare sight on the Prairie Sub. In fact,... (more)
The L724 crew eases West through Mazomanie after relieving Y303. They've got a 102 car string of empty grain hoppers in tow bound for United’s elevator at Boscobel.
The Y303 crew has just half a mile to go before being relieved by the Prairie du Chien based L724 at Mazomanie. Y303s day began with a cab ride from Janesville to Zenda, where they boarded a grain... (more)
Y303 ambles along at 10 MPH between Black Earth and Mazomanie.
The Labor Day peace and quite is momentarily interrupted, as WAMX 4196 leads 102 empty grain cars West passed the former Milwaukee Road depot at Black Earth.
Y303 rolls past the Burro Crane in Cross Plains.
A pair of former Burlington Northern SD40-2s tip-toe through Middleton with an empty grain train.
WAMX 4197 and 4196 are in charge of 102 empty grain cars bound for the United grain facility in Boscobel. The train is about to duck under the University Avenue overpass.
A pair of SD40-2's sandwiching a GP59 lead a short local back towards the Janesville yard.
Wisconsin and Southern grain extra is south of Zenda. They had 50 cars from Bardwell and another 50 from Zenda heading down the Fox Lake sub to the Belt.
