(rshsdepot) Bangor, Wisconsin (CNW & Milwaukee Road) {(well, more La Crosse, Wash. than La Crosse, Wisc.) (Boscobel, Oconomowoc, Pepin, the Sturgeon Bay Bridge,...)

["Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

Bangor, LaCrosse County...named by Welsh immigrants.

Iron Railroad Bridge over Dutch Creek:
http://www.lacrosseriverstatetrail.org/bangor.htm

Webster Industries of Bangor, Wisc. makes treated railroad crossties:
http://www.websterindustries.net/crossties.html

C&NW and Milwaukee Road paralleled into La Crosse, with the Milwaukee Road
(CMSTP&P) actually going to Onalaska just north. La Crosse was also on a
CB&Q north-south line.

West of Bangor is West Salem and La Crosse, east is Sparta from where the
lines go many directions.
Just east of Bangor  before Sparta there is a Milwaukee Road line  south
into the hills  to Norwalk, Cashton, Westby, from  where the line split, to
the west Coon Valley and Chaseburg, to the south Viroqua. At Sparta, the CNW
heads in two directions, east to Tomah, and a line SE out of Sparta to ,
Norwalk, Wilton, , Kendall, Elroy, the east line after Tomah heads SE too,
to Camp Douglas, New Lisbon. The top line heads to Milwaukee, the one that
began SE from Sparta to Madison. The Milwaukee Road east of Sparta, to
Wyeville, Necedah, on to Milwaukee. La Crosse is on the west side of state
at the Minnesota border. . Just below Elroy there is/was a short branch west
from Union Center to Hillsboro.

Wisconsin at least, the other side, here is Milwaukee Road,
Milwaukee:

Ya' know, many people can yak and yak about how great the 50s or 60s was,
but when you see this station you will almost cry that, in 1967, this
wonderful station as if in Europe, was demolished. What crap replaced it I
don't know, but I doubt it could be as distinguished and classy as this one,
Chicago, Milwaukee, St, Paul and Pacific railroad, Milwaukee Station
(1886-1967):
http://www.jsonline.com/desk/histwis/images/railroadbig060799.jpg
I wonder if this is a Richardson?

On Wisconsin depots, 1901:
http://www.apex-ephemera.com/DonsRailroadingBooks/wisconsin-railroading-hist
ory-1/chapter9.htm

I am surprised I couldn't find a LaCross station picture.
Well I did find this Amtrak station, but the picture is crummy:
http://trainweb.com/photos/r87316/87316_05.jpg
Streamlined locomotive at La Crosse, 1939:
http://www.wcwcw.com/graphics/trlc.jpg   Which railroad, Milwaukee Road?

[Here is Lacrosse, Washington O.R. & N. station, 1908:
http://www.wsrhs.org/pict/lcdepot.jpg
Maybe this is an earlier station. On the Columbia and Palouse RR:
http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/images/pc47/87-055.JPG  ]

I once took one of this car ferries from Kewaunee, Wisconsin:
http://www.whrc-wi.org/Craig/images/Kewaunee1.jpg
Oconomowoc depot: http://www.friesch-artist.com/Gif%20Images/mornhiod.gif
2000: http://www.byrnes.org/railfan/winter/rr10043.jpg
It looks like the only remaining Great Northern depot in Wisconsin is in
Superior: http://www.greatnorthernempire.net/GNEDepotsWisconsin.htm

Whitewater, Wisc. is now a museum. 1997:
http://luceline.tripod.com/gallery/depots/photos/0019.jpg
Waunakee is now home to the Chamber of Commerce:
http://luceline.tripod.com/gallery/depots/photos/0020.jpg
Pepin, Wisconsin depot, this is on the Mississippi River, well the station
was, it has been moved its Burlington depot to a city park:
http://luceline.tripod.com/gallery/depots/photos/0016.jpg
Middleton, Wisconsin is west of Madison. The town runs excursion trains to
communities west of Madison, dinner trains, Sunday trips. They own a 1955
era trainset, 3 engines and five passenger cars, and even leave this
Milwaukee Road depot at Middleton for University of Wisconsin football games
in the fall at Camp Randall Stadium on the Wisconsin campus:
http://luceline.tripod.com/gallery/depots/photos/0017.jpg
Here is their train at the Boscobel stone station:
http://luceline.tripod.com/gallery/depots/photos/0018.jpg
Green Bay Route bridge over Sturgeon Bay, 1940:
http://www.greenbayroute.com/RailroadBridgeSturgeonBay.jpg
I think I found nothing from the areas around Bangor, Wisconsin, maybe I
should have looked in eastern Minnesota...




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