Abbotsford

First picture is looking south from Cedar Street.
Main Street is on the left.
A siding by the nearby Dairy plant was removed maybe 15 years ago.


These are quick views at sunset of existing rails in Abbotsford, Wisconsin.
These are kite camera pictures, and the shutter speed is down to 1/30th of a second. Which is very slow to get clear pictures from a moving kite string.
A lady came over to see the kite. At first glance she thought it was an ultralight plane, there is a flying club in this area for those machines. But they aren't supposed to fly as low and close as my kite can fly.
I usually show better pictures, but this is all I got. Could have done better with sunshine, but it was cloudy after snow flurries when I traveled through town. Should try this again on a better day next year.
picture below is Looking south.
Main Street on the left.
Cedar Street is under the camera.
Old hiway 29 is about 3 blocks in the distance.
Meigs Asphalt and Trucking terminal is on the right / west
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I've marked rails on the picture below.
Red line to the left / east was to Athens. Most of those 15 miles were removed in 1972. The first half mile still went to a small factory on the east side of town, until the last of that track was ripped out all the way to the main line, in the 1990's.
I've drawn it very simply here. In WC days, the remnant of the Athens line didn't switch from the main, it came from a stubbed siding. I have a picture somewhere which I won't look up this year.

The Green line to the right / west was the line to Owen and onward to Chippewa Falls.
I didn't draw a line for a northwest leg of a wye behind the storage tank. I don't know if it existed recently; but the tree line sure suggests a gradual curve was there long ago.

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The track toward Owen ran for a few hundred yards west near the city Water towers, but I see the rails have been removed recently.

A steel shed still stands west of there, I was told it used to be the engine house. No picture of that today for this page.


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Milepost 303.
This new Community Center must have replaced a few old buildings on Main Street.
And note the ties on the left of the Owen line.

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View of the building from Main Street.

Maybe ? it will be open ? by the time of the great Christmas Parade on the first Saturday night of December.

Good historial design.

The Soo Line depot used to stand just south of old hiway 29, about a block south of this building.


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This page wrote Nov 18, 2007