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Viewing Album:  UP Harvard Subdivision in Wisconsin + S. Beloit Branch
 
By:Andre Wehrle
Dates:6/21/2008 - 6/21/2023
Album Info:Union Pacific's ex-C&NW mainline from the state line (in Illinois it serves as the Metra Northwest line) to South Janesville Yard. In C&NW days this was part of a through line to Madison via Evansville, and on to Reedsburg and the Twin Cities. The state line to Janesville segment was busy for a time, but experienced a drastic dropoff in traffic with the late 2008 closure of the GM plant and subsequent collapse of Janesville's industrial sector. From their Janesville yard, UP's local also runs down a portion of the old Milwaukee Road Racine & Southwestern line from Clinton to Beloit, where they use trackage rights over a portion of the CP to reach customers in South Beloit, IL on a severed piece of C&NW's Harvard-Beloit-Madison line.
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UP 1158
Title:  UP 1158
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/8/2023  Upload Date: 1/16/2023 11:51:42 AM
Location:  Porters, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1158(GP60)
Views:  84   Comments: 0
Rounding the bend towards Walker Road
Title:  Rounding the bend towards Walker Road
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/8/2023  Upload Date: 1/16/2023 11:57:28 AM
Location:  Clinton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1166(GP60)
Views:  50   Comments: 0
Approaching Gustafson Road
Title:  Approaching Gustafson Road
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/8/2023  Upload Date: 1/16/2023 11:58:06 AM
Location:  Clinton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1166(GP60)
Views:  57   Comments: 0
UP 1158 rolling away from Gustafson Road
Title:  UP 1158 rolling away from Gustafson Road
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/8/2023  Upload Date: 1/16/2023 11:58:31 AM
Location:  Clinton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1158(GP60)
Views:  63   Comments: 0
Rolling toward SR 140 and the end of the ex-Milwaukee Road spur
Title:  Rolling toward SR 140 and the end of the ex-Milwaukee Road spur
Description:  Just picked up three MT gons from Scot Forge. Continuing northeast, the ex-Milwaukee Road Racine & Southwestern Division is abandoned between the crossing of the ex-C&NW Harvard Sub here at Clinton, and the crossing with the ex-MILW Janesville-Chicago line at Bardwell (Allen's Grove). From there, another remaining segment serves as WSOR's Elkhorn branch.
Photo Date:  1/8/2023  Upload Date: 1/16/2023 11:59:15 AM
Location:  Clinton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1166(GP60)
Views:  64   Comments: 0
CNW 178116 pauses in front of me as the train stops to line the switch onto the Harvard Sub main
Title:  CNW 178116 pauses in front of me as the train stops to line the switch onto the Harvard Sub main
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/8/2023  Upload Date: 1/16/2023 12:00:17 PM
Location:  Clinton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  39   Comments: 0
UP 1158 trails the train across SR 140
Title:  UP 1158 trails the train across SR 140
Description:  The train is re-joining the Harvard Sub main here, 1158 will lead back to Janesville.
Photo Date:  1/8/2023  Upload Date: 1/16/2023 12:00:34 PM
Location:  Clinton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1158(GP60)
Views:  59   Comments: 0
Return trip to Janesville gets underway in the last dim light of an overcast winter day
Title:  Return trip to Janesville gets underway in the last dim light of an overcast winter day
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/8/2023  Upload Date: 1/16/2023 12:01:37 PM
Location:  Clinton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1158(GP60)
Views:  57   Comments: 0
Crossing County J in the blue twilight
Title:  Crossing County J in the blue twilight
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/8/2023  Upload Date: 1/16/2023 12:02:01 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1158(GP60)
Views:  56   Comments: 0
The next Sunday's SoBo run arrives to work DeLong
Title:  The next Sunday's SoBo run arrives to work DeLong
Description:  The former Demeter grain elevator just south of Prairie Hill Road was the main reason C&NW wanted to retain access to South Beloit.
Photo Date:  1/15/2023  Upload Date: 1/16/2023 12:02:32 PM
Location:  South Beloit, IL
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1158(GP60)
Views:  88   Comments: 0
Heading back an hour later, the local crosses Prospect Street
Title:  Heading back an hour later, the local crosses Prospect Street
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/15/2023  Upload Date: 1/16/2023 12:04:27 PM
Location:  Beloit, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1166(GP60)
Views:  64   Comments: 0
UP 1158 brings up the rear just past Turtle Town Hall Rd.
Title:  UP 1158 brings up the rear just past Turtle Town Hall Rd.
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/15/2023  Upload Date: 1/16/2023 12:05:27 PM
Location:  Porters, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1158(GP60)
Views:  65   Comments: 0
Branches, brambles and a babbling brook
Title:  Branches, brambles and a babbling brook
Description:  Approaching Gustafson Road.
Photo Date:  1/15/2023  Upload Date: 1/16/2023 12:05:47 PM
Location:  Clinton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1166(GP60)
Views:  45   Comments: 0
UP 1158 stays busy going backwards past Gustafson Road
Title:  UP 1158 stays busy going backwards past Gustafson Road
Description:  Title is derived from a Thomas and Friends episode about a brake van (UK equivalent of a caboose) who gets tired of always being the last to see everything.
Photo Date:  1/15/2023  Upload Date: 1/16/2023 12:06:13 PM
Location:  Clinton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1158(GP60)
Views:  58   Comments: 0
Last leg of the trip back to Janesville gets underway
Title:  Last leg of the trip back to Janesville gets underway
Description:  In much better light than a week ago!
Photo Date:  1/15/2023  Upload Date: 1/16/2023 12:06:26 PM
Location:  Clinton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1158(GP60)
Views:  87   Comments: 0
Leading From Behind
Title:  Leading From Behind
Description:  A crew still occupied the cab of 1166, and its ditch lights were left on, as it trailed the move from Clinton to Janesville. Although it no longer wears the paint scheme as 1158 on the other end of the train still does, it too is an ex-St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) GP60. It was built as the SSW 9673 which, coincidentally, is pictured on the Wikipedia articles for the SSW Railway and for the GP60 itself.
Photo Date:  1/15/2023  Upload Date: 1/17/2023 11:48:43 AM
Location:  Clinton, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1166(GP60)
Views:  42   Comments: 0
Rounding the curve approaching Elm Drive
Title:  Rounding the curve approaching Elm Drive
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/15/2023  Upload Date: 1/17/2023 11:49:27 AM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1158(GP60)
Views:  63   Comments: 0
UP 1158 keeps a leisurely pace back toward the yard
Title:  UP 1158 keeps a leisurely pace back toward the yard
Description:  Not sure why the speeds were reduced as the track still appears to be in good condition (and the ABS signals were recently upgraded, replacing the searchlights that C&NW had installed after scavenging them from an ex-CGW line that was being abandoned), but in years past you had to drive like a bat out of hell just to barely get a grab shot of a train entering the yard if you also shot it leaving Clinton. No longer.
Photo Date:  1/15/2023  Upload Date: 1/17/2023 11:50:05 AM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  62   Comments: 0
Rear looks like the front
Title:  Rear looks like the front
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/15/2023  Upload Date: 1/17/2023 11:56:42 AM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1166(GP60)
Views:  49   Comments: 0
UP 1158 arrives back at the yard for a brief rest
Title:  UP 1158 arrives back at the yard for a brief rest
Description:  In a few hours the LJA50 crew will use the same set of three GP60s off this train to make the overnight transfer run to Proviso and back.
Photo Date:  1/15/2023  Upload Date: 1/17/2023 12:02:10 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 1158(GP60)
Views:  91   Comments: 0
One last look at the pair of 3,800 HP cabooses
Title:  One last look at the pair of 3,800 HP cabooses
Description:  The GP60s were built for fast, long-haul running with their high horsepower to axle ratio. It's kind of sad to see them relegated to 10 MPH branchline local service, but at least they'll get to stretch their wheels a little bit on the LJA50 run from here to Proviso and back.
Photo Date:  1/15/2023  Upload Date: 1/17/2023 12:14:47 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1166(GP60)
Views:  74   Comments: 0

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