{"id":23625,"date":"2019-01-22T19:07:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T00:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=23625"},"modified":"2019-01-22T19:32:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T00:32:01","slug":"freight-at-duplainville-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/freight-at-duplainville-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Freight at Duplainville\u2014Part 1."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019ll need to pay close attention to figure out the players in this scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duplainville, Wisconsin is where the former Milwaukee Road mainline to the Twin Cities from its namesake crosses the historic Soo Line\/Wisconsin Central route between Chicago and Fond du Lac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soo Line bought the Milwaukee in the 1980s, and in the 1990s the Soo Line branding was displaced by parent Canadian Pacific, which is now CP Rail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the late 1980s, Wisconsin Central Limited took over the old Soo Line route and operated this until bought up by Canadian National in 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This led to confusing situation in the mid 1990s where the old Soo Line was the WCL, and the \u2018New Soo Line\u2019 was the former Milwaukee Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now the principal Canadian carriers cross at grade in Wisconsin, many many miles from the Canadian frontier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further complicating clarity is that many freights operate with run-through locomotives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this case CSX 13 (a GE-built) AC4400CW leads a northward CN freight across the old Milwaukee Road. 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