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Viewing Album:  Janesville 2019-2023
 
By:Andre Wehrle
Dates:4/26/2019 - 12/31/2023
Album Info:WSOR provides the vast majority of the train action in the rail hub of Rock County. It remains an interesting regional railroad under Watco ownership although there have been quite a few changes. UP serves a few industries around town and runs the occasional unit grain train through to the Landmark Co-op at Evansville via their Harvard Sub from Proviso, although their traffic is a shell of what it was before the GM plant closed in 2008. CP makes cameo appearances via their ex-SOO/IMRL/IC&E branch line up from Davis Jct./Rockford, IL.
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T006 is three units and one tank car, T004R is two units and one tank car
Title:  T006 is three units and one tank car, T004R is two units and one tank car
Description:  T6 (in radio shorthand), the train from Madison, will set out their tank car on the UP interchange before calling it a day. T4R is switching the refrigerated argon tankers that are transloaded in the old coach yard. I found this odd because their usual task is to get on board the train from Horicon (T4) and take it on to Chicago. What they did next was even stranger...
Photo Date:  11/30/2021  Upload Date: 12/1/2021 4:05:41 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4219(SD40-2) WAMX 4197(SD40-2)
Views:  102   Comments: 0
Freshly painted WAMX 4196 still in the same spot as last week
Title:  Freshly painted WAMX 4196 still in the same spot as last week
Description:  Why do I never get light like this on the leader of a train that's actually moving? Wish they'd hurry up and paint the SD60Ms so I could catch matching sets of red and gray again.
Photo Date:  11/30/2021  Upload Date: 12/1/2021 4:05:57 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4196(SD40-2)
Views:  119   Comments: 0
Triclops and two-pane
Title:  Triclops and two-pane
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/30/2021  Upload Date: 12/1/2021 4:06:09 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 6029(SD60M) WAMX 6031(SD60M)
Views:  150   Comments: 0
UP local returns from working Anderson with two GP60s bracketing four cars
Title:  UP local returns from working Anderson with two GP60s bracketing four cars
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/18/2022  Upload Date: 1/20/2022 1:21:32 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1145(GP60)
Views:  109   Comments: 0
UP 1025 follows a gondola, three boxcars and sister 1145 toward Five Points and the UP yard
Title:  UP 1025 follows a gondola, three boxcars and sister 1145 toward Five Points and the UP yard
Description:  The UP's Anderson Spur is a stub of the ex-C&NW line which once ran north to Fond du Lac, abandoned beyond the 3 or 4 customers they serve near the US Highway 14 crossing. Another, larger section still exists from Fort Atkinson to Clyman Junction. Circa 2007-08 when I first took up railfanning, they shoved out with an ex-C&NW bay window caboose in the lead to work the spurs which are all trailing point to the south (RR east). It wasn't long after that they started putting a locomotive on each end instead.
Photo Date:  1/18/2022  Upload Date: 1/20/2022 1:22:11 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1025(GP60)
Views:  124   Comments: 0
T003 air-tests in the yard for a dusk departure
Title:  T003 air-tests in the yard for a dusk departure
Description:  I'd also caught T004 on this day which was led by one of the old WSOR SD40-2s (like the second unit here), but got video only as my DSLR's battery turned up dead and the shutter "button" on my phone's touchscreen failed to respond to my gloved finger.
Photo Date:  1/18/2022  Upload Date: 1/20/2022 1:27:59 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 6026(SD60M)
Views:  101   Comments: 0
T003 gets underway, crossing Arch Street
Title:  T003 gets underway, crossing Arch Street
Description:  In the very last twilight glow, as seems typical for this train except for maybe a month either side of the summer solstice.
Photo Date:  1/18/2022  Upload Date: 1/20/2022 1:54:36 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 6026(SD60M)
Views:  145   Comments: 0
Squeezing between the Rock River and Mercy Hospital
Title:  Squeezing between the Rock River and Mercy Hospital
Description:  Next shot in in sequence from the chase of this train that began in the album "UP Harvard Subdivision - Evansville Spur."
Photo Date:  7/19/2022  Upload Date: 7/22/2022 2:14:16 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1166(GP60)
Views:  39   Comments: 0
Hugging the west bank of the Rock
Title:  Hugging the west bank of the Rock
Description:  Unlike my photos from last November, you can't see the river due to the leafed-out trees.
Photo Date:  7/19/2022  Upload Date: 7/22/2022 2:14:57 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1166(GP60)
Views:  50   Comments: 0
Five out of six units visible on the bridge
Title:  Five out of six units visible on the bridge
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/19/2022  Upload Date: 7/22/2022 2:15:38 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1166(GP60) UP 1107(GP60) UP 6771(AC44CW) UP 5047(SD70M)
Views:  50   Comments: 0
WAMX 4223 & 4219
Title:  WAMX 4223 & 4219
Description:  Per usual...the WSOR power I'm particularly interested in catching is parked when I go trackside on the railroad. If I catch a train moving it's almost always the same two (4171 or 4173) or a p***brick SD60M leading.
Photo Date:  10/21/2022  Upload Date: 10/31/2022 7:01:03 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 4223(SD40M-2)
Views:  72   Comments: 0
WAMX 6029 being serviced
Title:  WAMX 6029 being serviced
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/21/2022  Upload Date: 10/31/2022 7:06:13 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 6029(SD60M)
Views:  84   Comments: 0
40th Anniversary unit heads to tie up
Title:  40th Anniversary unit heads to tie up
Description:  Just ran light east after doing some switching in the yard west of Arch St.
Photo Date:  10/26/2022  Upload Date: 10/31/2022 7:16:19 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4170(SD40-2) WAMX 4180(SD40-2)
Views:  99   Comments: 0
UP local switching Evonik
Title:  UP local switching Evonik
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/26/2022  Upload Date: 10/31/2022 7:16:52 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1166(GP60)
Views:  32   Comments: 0
Pulling toward Rockport Road to clear a switch
Title:  Pulling toward Rockport Road to clear a switch
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/26/2022  Upload Date: 10/31/2022 7:17:55 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1166(GP60)
Views:  37   Comments: 0
Still switching Evonik in the horrible backlighting
Title:  Still switching Evonik in the horrible backlighting
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/26/2022  Upload Date: 10/31/2022 7:18:37 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1166(GP60)
Views:  39   Comments: 0
Well over an hour of shuffling the tank cars at Evonik just to pull one
Title:  Well over an hour of shuffling the tank cars at Evonik just to pull one
Description:  There are four tracks that stub-end within the Evonik property, one of which is the old main (former C&NW line to Beloit) and two of which are spurs into the plant itself.
Photo Date:  10/26/2022  Upload Date: 10/31/2022 7:19:54 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1166(GP60)
Views:  50   Comments: 0
WAMX 4196 would appear to once again be a long-term resident
Title:  WAMX 4196 would appear to once again be a long-term resident
Description:  It was in the exact same spot when I was in Janesville five days earlier. Shortly after being painted in the fall of 2021, it sat (facing west) on the end of the fuel ramp at the south side of the roundhouse for several months. It was in service for a few months in the spring/summer of this year (of course I never caught it) but would seem to once again be parked.
Photo Date:  10/26/2022  Upload Date: 10/31/2022 7:20:31 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4196(SD40-2)
Views:  94   Comments: 0
UP 1166 shoves the Evonik pickup down to the interchange
Title:  UP 1166 shoves the Evonik pickup down to the interchange
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/26/2022  Upload Date: 10/31/2022 7:21:20 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1166(GP60)
Views:  46   Comments: 0
Even when I catch WSOR trains moving in Janesville, they're still led by Armour Yellow
Title:  Even when I catch WSOR trains moving in Janesville, they're still led by Armour Yellow
Description:  I think this was T006 based on the boxcars up front, but it could be some mishmash of T004 and T006 since with how much switching they do at Milton and at the Rotamer siding, it's rare for any consist that gets yarded at Janesville to remotely resemble what left Madison and Horicon earlier that day.
Photo Date:  10/26/2022  Upload Date: 10/31/2022 7:21:51 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 6024(SD60M)
Views:  114   Comments: 0
Stay Gold
Title:  Stay Gold
Description:  Actually, don't. As well as this SD60M's patched UP paint matches the fall colors, I'd much rather it and its trailing sister be in a fresh coat of red and gray after a year and a half on the railroad.
Photo Date:  10/26/2022  Upload Date: 10/31/2022 7:22:49 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 6024(SD60M)
Views:  154   Comments: 0
T6 power shoves the train into the yard after pulling it around the wye
Title:  T6 power shoves the train into the yard after pulling it around the wye
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/7/2023  Upload Date: 11/7/2023 6:11:40 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 6027(SD60M)
Views:  55   Comments: 0
WAMX 5907/4196
Title:  WAMX 5907/4196
Description:  Too bad I just had my phone with me. This is the first time I've seen one of the ex-NS GP59s that were acquired by way of Progress Rail and painted red and gray earlier this year.
Photo Date:  11/7/2023  Upload Date: 11/7/2023 6:13:15 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 5907(GP59) WAMX 4196(SD40-2)
Views:  121   Comments: 0
UP-Sies!
Title:  UP-Sies!
Description:  A loaded grain train coming back from Evansville derailed on Halloween; a week later several cars are still on their side.
Photo Date:  11/7/2023  Upload Date: 11/7/2023 6:53:15 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  25   Comments: 0
Derailment aftermath
Title:  Derailment aftermath
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/7/2023  Upload Date: 11/7/2023 6:54:07 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  31   Comments: 0
EMD Whine
Title:  EMD Whine
Description:  A hostler crew takes 6313 through the notches outside the roundhouse, blowing carbon out the exhaust.
Photo Date:  11/7/2023  Upload Date: 11/7/2023 6:55:30 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HLCX 6313(SD40-2)
Views:  58   Comments: 0
WAMX 6027 leads the T6 power at Pearl Street, heading to tie up
Title:  WAMX 6027 leads the T6 power at Pearl Street, heading to tie up
Description:  I believe this is the only one of the group of ex-UP SD60Ms on the WSOR with the full "Wings & Flags" treatment. 6022-23 have already been repainted, although unfortunately into a heavily modified version of the red and gray scheme that is not what I had been hoping for.
Photo Date:  11/7/2023  Upload Date: 11/7/2023 6:56:57 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 6027(SD60M)
Views:  84   Comments: 0
Nothing But Engines
Title:  Nothing But Engines
Description:  With most of the train (including a long cut of flats loaded with USMC JLTVs built at Oshkosh) set out at Milton, remainder at Anderson just north of here, T004 is just six motors light into Janesville Yard.
Photo Date:  11/18/2023  Upload Date: 11/18/2023 6:27:14 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 6023(SD60M)
Views:  83   Comments: 1
WAMX 6023 about to duck under Black Bridge Rd.
Title:  WAMX 6023 about to duck under Black Bridge Rd.
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/18/2023  Upload Date: 11/18/2023 6:28:12 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 6023(SD60M)
Views:  100   Comments: 0

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