{"id":1914,"date":"2013-04-02T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2013-04-02T04:46:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T08:46:23","slug":"wisconsin-central-limited-at-duplainville-wisconsin-may-7-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wisconsin-central-limited-at-duplainville-wisconsin-may-7-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Central Limited at Duplainville, Wisconsin, May 7, 1996"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SD45s with a short train.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Exposed with a Nikkormat FT3 fitted with a Nikon f2.8 28mm lens; Kodachrome 25 slide film.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By the mid-1990s, Wisconsin Central Limited<\/a> operated one of the largest fleets of secondhand 20-cylinder EMD<\/a> locomotives in the United States, having acquired more than 100 SD45s, F45s, among other 20-cylinder models from class I railroads. It rebuilt the locomotives at its North Fond du Lac shops.<\/p>\n

At the time, I lived in Waukesha<\/a> within earshot of WC\u2019s former Soo Line<\/a> mainline to Chicago. A few miles to the north was WC’s crossing of Soo Line\u2019s former Milwaukee Road mainline. (This confusing arrangement stemmed from Soo Line\u2019s 1985 merger with Milwaukee Road, and the subsequent spin off of former Soo Line routes which in 1987 had been regrouped as Wisconsin Central Limited.)<\/p>\n

Among WC\u2019s freights was T047, which connected with Soo Line in Milwaukee and so utilized the former Milwaukee Road mainline between Milwaukee and Duplainville. On the afternoon of May 7, 1996, I exposed this Kodachrome slide of a pair of WC SD45s (one of which still wearing Santa Fe paint) leaving the Milwaukee mainline on its way north toward North Fond du Lac.<\/p>\n

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