Abandonned Rails of Western Wisconsin

This is a sample page of what's on the CD picture collection that is almost 80% done.

14 people have or want to contribute material.
Four people plus me have the most pictures and stories.
People who contribute get one free copy of the whole Cd.

This is about sites and tracks now gone in recent history, since the 1970's.

Maps of Eau Claire area Railroads.

Shawtown Spur or Eau Claire Industrial Lead of CNW RR
(could use another picture of the two trestles on Forest Street, and the paper mill abandonned track leads.)

Eau Claire CNW Depot

Soo Line in the Eau Claire area.

CNW Eau Claire Tower has pages already covered in the Soo Line chapter above (by a quirk of picture filing, not because it is related to Soo Line directly)
Here are some direct links to those pages (but not on this sample page)

Uniroyal Tire Plant (US Rubber Co.) of Eau Claire, and topics related to all three railroads.

Milwaukee Road in the Eau Claire area.

Some contemporary railroading of Eau Claire on tracks that are still there.
This CD is about rails now abandonned, but I do include a few scenes of contemporary railroading, special events, and an Amtrak detour.

Menomonie CNW RR spur (and I have to find 4 of my slides yet. one link not made)

Mondovi CNW RR, just a little about Arlyns' historical project

Cornell of C&NW RR, also the CNW Chippewa River bridge repair.

Merrillan by Bob G.

Black River Falls branch of the CNW RR, by Bob G.

Stanley Lumber Co Siding in mill pond, 1984, by Bob G.

Weyerhauser Soo Roundhouse by Bob G.

Chippewa Falls Soo Roundhouse had a picture in chapter of Soo Line Eau Claire, on Irvine Yard page. need link yet.

CNW Roundhouse Altoona, have some pictures, page not made yet. Nothing fantastic.

Rice Lake by several contributors, a copy and continuation of my recent web page

Amery to Almena. (as of Feb 2007, folder is on my edrive, to update and copy over later. and 3 maps in SooTL folder)

Clear Lake, one poor picture of a CNW train south of Turtle Lake

Copy the few pix of Spooner CNW to here?

Glenwood City Soo Line, with state rail plan. Mostly a map series, unless I find my 2 slides of the weeds growing on it

Danbury Subdivision, Soo Line. and state rail plan. (ROW slides half scanned so far, 40 to do yet; and some train pix are coming from Texas!)

Moose Lake, Minn., dozen slides

DWP Tunnel, 30 slides to scan yet. But none of the famous trestle winding over downtown Duluth

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State Rail Plans and how you might find them in your library (thanks to Rich P.)


If your favorite stretch of railroad isn't shown above, it doesn't mean it wasn't important. It could be that I didn't visit it or couldn't contact the right people. This is not a researched history of the area. Just the rail stuff seen at the end of its life. This Cd is about rails that disappeared in the pell-mell of abandonments with the 1980's de-regulation of railroads. Hundreds of miles were removed in less than a dozen years.
I filmed history in the making starting in the 1970's.
I couldn't cover them all (so many tracks, so little time)
And I'll leave earlier abandonments to someone else's research.
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Link to my main page, Bruce's RailRoad Pictures

My E-mail address is on the bottom of my main page.

Wrote April 6, 2007