Trains passing at Whitt

Milepost 40 is a useful place to remember, west of Port Edwards, Wisconsin.

The coal trains from Wyoming to Weston are handed off here from the UP to the CN.

I think I have been spelling WHIT wrong since they built the siding a few years ago, it has two T's.
I believe it is a contraction of Whittlesey, from the name of the cranberry farm near this bog.

a signal for the power switch

Here's the read end of the coal train.
There's a lot of water in this irrigation pond. . . . Highway 173 is on the right.
The Nekoosa papermill is the white dot on the horizon.

The CN Nekoosa job is coming (compass east) from Necedah in the early evening.

The cattails and willows hide the view of the siding.

there's over a dozen loads of ethanol from the corn processor south of Necedah.
This crossing is Wilhorn road, a mile west of Nekoosa Junction.

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This page was wrote in May, 2015