A Fair Friday at Fairwater
It’s a pleasant day-after-Thanksgiving and while most people were up early for “Black Friday” deals, I left home early in search of more of a “Red Friday” deal…. and I think I managed to find a good one! The Wisconsin and Southern Railroad’s Y501 crew out of Horicon has been tasked with using the WAMX 5901 and 5904, two of the railroad’s sharp-dressed GP59s delivered just a few months earlier after work at MEI in St. Louis, to make a run out to Markesan and return. They’ve got two cars for the co-op in Markesan and a short set of empty 2-bay hoppers to spot at the sand loadout near CTH S between Utley and Markesan on this particular day.
The engineer has the small train humming along at what sure seemed like track speed here at Fairwater as they pass the outlet control structure for the pond on the west side of town approaching the appropriately named West Street crossing. Despite the lack of any significant snow fall (which has continued until almost the end of 2023 this year in a large part of the upper Midwest), this was certainly a fun chase on a “code blue” day.
A Fair Friday at Fairwater
It’s a pleasant day-after-Thanksgiving and while most people were up early for “Black Friday” deals, I left home early in search of more of a “Red Friday” deal…. and I think I managed to find a good one! The Wisconsin and Southern Railroad’s Y501 crew out of Horicon has been tasked with using the WAMX 5901 and 5904, two of the railroad’s sharp-dressed GP59s delivered just a few months earlier after work at MEI in St. Louis, to make a run out to Markesan and return. They’ve got two cars for the co-op in Markesan and a short set of empty 2-bay hoppers to spot at the sand loadout near CTH S between Utley and Markesan on this particular day.
The engineer has the small train humming along at what sure seemed like track speed here at Fairwater as they pass the outlet control structure for the pond on the west side of town approaching the appropriately named West Street crossing. Despite the lack of any significant snow fall (which has continued until almost the end of 2023 this year in a large part of the upper Midwest), this was certainly a fun chase on a “code blue” day.