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Tom Burke Photo Reefers at McKenzie Lane Elkhorn WI Feb 2 2017 #2JPG

A string of hoppers was stored at the very end of the WSOR's Elkhorn branch on this sunny February day. I noticed that the refrigeration units were humming so I don't think they were going to be parked here long.

 

The Birds-Eye and Americold plants in Darien to the west are on the same WSOR line and could potentially use them but I don't know why WSOR shoved them so far east unless there was no other place to store them.

 

Another string of stored reefers was parked between I-43 and Highway 67 just east of here.

 

This track is part of the former Milwaukee Road Racine & Southwestern Line. It ends just past the hoppers to the east where it becomes the White River State Trail.

 

This section of track was retained partly as a tail for switching the InterMatic plant that can be seen along I-43 in Elkhorn but I have not seen a freight car spotted on their spur in many years.

 

For more information on the former Milwaukee Road Southwestern Line go to-

 

www.glenviewcreek.com/CPRSWLineHomePage.html

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Uploaded on February 5, 2017
Taken on February 2, 2017