Terraced

Here we see WAMX 4182 and WAMX 4177 leading an uncommon daylight T005 as they work their way off the Lake Monona causeway and onto Madison's Isthmus for the final few miles to the yard at Johnson Street. At this point, seen from the Monona Terrace, T005 is strung out around the connector at Monona Tower and over the junction with the Prairie Sub at Broom Street.

 

The area around Monona Tower is the convergence of the Madison, Reedsburg, and Prairie subdivisions. The Madison Sub crosses the Reedsburg Sub at Monona Tower. From there, the Madison Sub continues until the junction with the Prairie Sub at Main Street. The Prairie Sub begins here at Broom Street. Both Broom and Main street switches are radio controlled whose normal positions are lined for the Reedsburg Sub and Prairie Sub respectively. The connecting track between the Reedsburg and Madison subdivisions at Monona Tower has a pair of spring switches whose normal positions are lined for movement from the Madison Sub to the Reedsburg Sub and vise versa.

 

At one time, there were four tracks and a two-lane road between the buildings and the lake. The two northern tracks were for the Milwaukee and the two southern tracks were for the CNW. This was eventually consolidated to two tracks, and then finally one track during the construction of the Monona Terrace in 1994.

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