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12/25/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Richard Hopfensperger
Dates:1/1/2000 - 12/31/2019
Album Info:Oshkosh, WI used to have a maze of rails serving heavy industry ranging from lumber saw mills to heavy trucks. The industrial base of Oshkosh has shrunk dramatically over the past twenty years. Morgan, Buckstaff, Paine Lumber, Leach Co. and many other rail served businesses are now gone. Some that remain, no longer have rail revice. A 1978 Milwaukee Road list of switched industries shows 45 customers. In 2014 there are 15, on two seperate lines that no longer connect. The line east of U.S. 41 is a combination of former Soo Line and CNW track. The line west of U.S. 41 is on the former Milwauuke Road right of way that at one time ran into Oshkosh and connected with the Soo near the Fox River. The Milwaukee had yard and engine facilities near the Fox River. Most of the old rail is now gone. This album is to record what remains for rail traffic in Oshkosh and what changes are made in the future.
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Noffke Lumber
Title:  Noffke Lumber
Description:  Not everything received at a lumber yard comes on a flat car. An ELS car is spotted for unloading at Noffke Lumber.
Photo Date:  3/8/2016  Upload Date: 4/8/2016 10:38:37 AM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock
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Views:  78   Comments: 0
ELS 101878 at Noffke Lumber
Title:  ELS 101878 at Noffke Lumber
Description:  A boxcar is not what is normally seen for a rail car at Noffke Lumber. The typical car seen spotted here is a center beam flat. To the me, it was especially nice to see it was a car from our local northern railroad serving Wisconsin and the UP of Michigan.
Photo Date:  3/8/2016  Upload Date: 4/8/2016 10:32:55 AM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  60   Comments: 1
AOK 607132
Title:  AOK 607132
Description:  A car is spntted for pulpwood loading at the former CNW yard in Oshkosh. Though it is not very common, once in a while, a car is spotted here for loading. This former CNW yard was torn out in the summer of 2016. The property still retains this car spot and a run-around/short passing siding track on the south side of the Fox River. The defunct Buckstaff furnVture factory can be seen in the background, another reminder of Oshkosh's once thriving lumber based business.
Photo Date:  5/2/2016  Upload Date: 10/10/2016 12:59:50 AM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  63   Comments: 0
AOK 607132
Title:  AOK 607132
Description:  Waiting for a load of pulpwood at the former CNW yard in Oshkosh. The CN tore out+the yard, which is situated in the foreground of this photo (the lighter, jointed rail) in the summer of 2016. Industry that would require rail service has been on the decline in Oshkosh since the 1980's. The defunct Buckstaff furniture factkry in the background serves a testament to that fact.
Photo Date:  5/2/2016  Upload Date: 10/10/2016 1:07:52 AM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock
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Views:  93   Comments: 1
LMIC 200034
Title:  LMIC 200034
Description:  A load of plate steel waits to be unloaded at Leeco. Leeco is served by the WSOR via former Milwaukee Road rails into Oshkosh. This car has been shoved through the Leeco building, off spot. It will need to be pulled back into the building (off shot to the left) to be unloaded. The Silver Star Brands (Miles Kimball) mail order facility is the large pole building in the distance.
Photo Date:  10/22/2016  Upload Date: 8/28/2017 2:25:13 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  23   Comments: 0
United Co-op Elevator and WSOR Terminal
Title:  United Co-op Elevator and WSOR Terminal
Description:  Looking west along the line at Oshkosh into the United Co-op (ADM, and before that Olsen)facility and WSOR (WATCO) terminal. Late spring saw some construction activity pick up at the elevator. Though the construction was in a location not readily seen from public access points, over the summer it was readily apparent what was going on. United added two huge bins which dwarf the largest ones in this photo. A new surge bin is also being added which seems to have the capacity of the left front bin. The Clairville Road/State Highway 91 grade crossing can be seen at the horizon of the road bed.
Photo Date:  4/30/2017  Upload Date: 9/22/2017 8:24:52 PM
Location:  Oshkosh, WI
Author:  Richard Hopfensperger
Categories:  Scenic,Track
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Views:  52   Comments: 0


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