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RailRoad Hobby or History related, in no particular order except MAYBE more recent ones I've found are on top. Let me know if any don't work. I can't keep up-to-date with them all. Apologies if I didn't describe your web sites very well.

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And to find out where to explore, try my favorite source for good maps and aerial photos on the Internet: TERRASERVER MAPS (2003)
Or try my second-best (because they don't zoom in as close, and do they have aerial photos?) favorite source for maps on the Internet: TOPOZONE MAPS

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Note from (Max?) 2005 TerraServer is fine but there is a much better program out there. A member of the Milwaukee Road group mentioned it in a post and I decided to give it a try. It's called USAPhotoMaps 2.67. It's a free download from www.jdmcox.com

The program uses images from TerraServer. Unlike TerraServer the images fill almost the entire screen, the images that you download are saved in a file for future reference.You can set waypoints or locations on the images, after you get what you want downloaded, you can seemlessly move about the image with the arrow keys, can also zoon in and out. I've not only downloaded most of the interesting railroad features in Wisconsin, active or abandoned, I have also downloaded many of the major railroad engineering masterpieces in the U.S. Be warned the program can get addictive, but it's great fun.

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also mention of Google aquired Keyhole maps, a former subscription service, now free to use.

Just an FYI this could come in handy. http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html 2005

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Jerry found links (2006)
http://www.eurorailways.com/scenic/index.htm

http://www.sunysb.edu/libmap/coordinates.htm

blog http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/

http://www.greatlakesmaps.org/ , 2007

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http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/2006/05/great_lakes_ice_atlas.phtml http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/ice/atlas/ ___________maps____________56_____________________

http://nationalatlas.gov/printable.html for printable maps of states, 2006

http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/fedlands.html#list
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/hist_sites.html
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/
http://www.maphistory.info/index.html
http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/
http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/atlas%20home.htm (US Military Academy)
This ought to get you surfing for hours (2005) Jerry R

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Someone had asked in an older message about where you could by Sanborn maps (in 2005) http://www.edrnet.com/reports/historical.html

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From first page of links, I repeat this one because of good maps:
RR Picture Archives AND good RR maps (2004)

Visit USGS United States Geo Survey for guides to map sumbols.

Google maps 2005 new mapping site, and need active x enabled, and crashed I E first time I tried it.

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Green Bay aerial pix of various years.(2005)

Portage County and clik Online Records, Portage co Online Maps new site July 2005 says newspaper

Village of Plover (a 10,000 population village!) has pictures and maps.(2006)

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PDF download of Wisconsin 2004 state rail map, might have to modify address in 2005? (2004)

A friend pointed out some very interesting links...excellent resource .PDF files to the Wisconsin rail network:
Wisconsin 2004: http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/localgov/docs/railmap2004.pdf
Wisconsin 2005: http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/localgov/docs/railmap2005.pdf
Perhaps nothing new to you all on this list, but I thought it to be a valuable resource, esp. since so many lines have been abandoned since the SPV was published for this region over 8 years ago.

And a note about old rails on USGS maps, many OLD maps were kept in the BOTTOM of the map drawers at the Map Library, Science Hall, UW Madison, Wi. New maps were on top of the piles.

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National Geographic Map Machine (2003)

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Wisconsin 1800's Land survey notes. Plat maps maybe.(2006)

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Map of Stevens Point Wisconsin, by area softball groups, very good for locating businesses (2003)

Stevens Point Convention and Visitors bureau info and that same map as above. (2004, 6)

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http://www.steamtrainsandtractors.com/RR_Freq_Guide.html for wis and illinois (2005)

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http://www.angelfire.com/wi/railphoto/
Rail Wisconsin timetables and freq (2006)

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National Rail Historical Society (April 2002)

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Wisconsin chapter National Rail Historical Society, Wis NRHS

North West Illinois Chapter National Rail Historical Society (2003)

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Wisconsin Historical Society with searchable library of historical pictures about Wisconsin (2005)

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Washburn Logging northern Wisconsin.(2003) Wisconsin Lumber Railroads is some history and indexes for maps. December 2001

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Wisconsin Logging Railroads by Tim, indexed by counties. (2006)

Logging History Lincoln County and others 2004

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Tomahawk Railway Rail Management, current operators of M T and W (2004)

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OMAHA IN CHIPPEWA COUNTY of Wisconsin, some history plus plans of model railroad depicting the area. (2003)

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La Crosse Short Line club, and note their January 29, 2005 flea market (2005)

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Wisconsin Railroading by Don anderson, lots of stuff from pre-1950's (Sept, 2002)

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Mineral Point Railroad Society, with the beautiful limestone depot (2005)

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http://www.trainweb.org/wisrail/wisindex.htm
Wis railfan and Photo pages of Steve Cl. site, also related to yahoo wisrail. And has link to RR gif pictures of Dan's Depot.

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Waupaca depot project http://www.waupacahistory.org The pictures are from last year. Some things look a little different now. Also, check out http://www.wamrltd.com I have some stuff on one of the pages. Mike (2006)

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Dave Cramer RR CD slide shows on sale (2004)

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http://www.pasty.com/cam/index.html Pasty Cam of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (2006) (pasty rhymes with nasty)

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http://www.geocities.com/railtalk/ Outstate Minnesota Rail, especially northwestern Mn, good (2007)

Minnesota Reflections collection of minn historical pictures starting from before the 1900's.(2005)

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D. Reiter
206612.tripod.com
Iowa Northern Ry company photographer (2007)

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WC 2 Scale picture collection for Wisconsin Central modelers, by Bob Menzies. (2003, 6)

Soo 2713 The southside Stevens Point loco display (2006)

SOO LINE Historical and Technical Society (October 02)

CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN Historical Society

MILWAUKEE ROAD Historical Society

Chicago Chapter NRHS

Northstar chapter NRhS Twin Cities (untried 2003)

RR station Historical Society website has lists and locations of depots (untried, 2004)

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Kasgro heavy duty flatcars,web site, pdf pix and dimensions, www.kasgro.com (2006)

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NS Railfan (2004)

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http://home.insightbb.com/~e.seaman/index.htm , and paper mill (2007)

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c vision productions train tapes by Chris Laskowski (2005)

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RAIL BIKES INTERNATIONAL of California, plus links to more (2003)

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Bentley's Rail Bikers Pictures, not his home page (2003)

Here is a link from an ad that Roger found for bike-to-moped power conversion http://www.neodymics.com/ gas or electric add-on power t0 bicyle(2006)

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Indiana travel guide shows EXPLORE INDIANA TRAILS and there's already 31 rails-to-trails. (untried, August 2002)

From RailFan Magazine, NEW BICYCLE TRAIL on old Milwaukee Road right-of-way over St. Paul Pass of the Rocky Mountains.

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Great group to join (for free) to share information on many topics,
YAHOO GROUPS and it just takes time to figure out how to sign in and search for the groups you want. It's fast AFTER you've done it the first time. And unless you're desparate to get e-mail, I suggest just choosing "view messages from the web site".

From the 'groups home page', you can search or 'join a group' fastest by typing exactly the name of the group. If you do a general search for 'railroads', you may get more Grand Funks than you can shake a computer mouse at.
I suggest WCinfo (for Wisconsin Central RR), milw (Milwaukee Road), cnw, GBW, wisrail, TwinPortsRail, yooperrails (for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan). There are over a thousand railroad groups.

Typical address of just one group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yooperrails

Some Yahoo groups are available to 'public', you don't have to 'sign in' as a member.
such as Michigan Railroads. I think you can read messages, just can't submit messages until you sign in as a member.

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yahoo geo-cities free web sites 2005

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Trackside Motels list for railfans, views of trains from the motel (June 2003)

Bachmann Communications usarail , a railfan in Germany, and has links. (2004)

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MODEL RAILROADS

Here's a link to an NMRA model railroad site in Wisconsin/Northern Illinois, NMRA MidWest Region (2003)

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Fred's Garden RR 2004

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Stevens Point, Wis., local history, caboose in Historic Park pictures, local county RR history, and good RR links,
new address PORTAGE COUNTY HISTORICAL March 2002
Their caboose 617 restoration (2006)

And the model RR club that meets in that depot, Central Wisconsin Model RR (December 2001, 05)

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Milwaukee Art Museum (2003)

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Algoma Central and Upper Peninsula area, 1960's and newer pictures, + Arizona (Sept, 2002)

Copper Range RR and lots of good history around the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan, by Kevin Musser. (July 2002)

Quincy Mine copper mine, Hancock, Michigan

Heyl & Patterson rotary rail car dumpers.

Go to their bulk transfer or something like that.
Apparently in the real world there's more varieties than just the Walther's model. (July 2002)

National Museum of Industrial History (I haven't tried it) (2004)

Furnace Road Studio art and industrial (in conjunction with above site, I haven't looked at it.) (2004)

Grain Elevator Photos (July 2002)

Grain Elevator Historical Society (July 2002)

Covered Bridges, and Pictures on buildings and stuff, 2004

and here's a link from his site to Society for the Preservation of Old Mills = SPOOM (2006) US Bridge Company, and has slide show of variety of steel bridges. (2005)

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HISTORICAL INFORMATION INCLUDED WITH INDUSTRIAL WEB SITES:

Michigan Limestone has quarry and some WC train pictures, plus good history of the lime industry

Society for Industrial Archeology (July 2002)

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http://www.ipst.gatech.edu/amp/collection/museum_adv_machine.htm

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Also fun to watch boats, something new every week during shipping season, DULUTH SHIPPING NEWS

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Badger car ferry Lake Michigan, 2003

Spirit of Lasalle passenger ferry Menomonee Michigan to Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin and 2 hour tours of each city 2007

Moved Camera links page to new page 2005, Cameras and kites and church web sites

To first page of rail links, first page of rail links

My work-related links 2004