Soo Line on the Milwaukee Road, Part Three of Three
The Soo Line had trackage rights on the Milwaukee Road (Wisconsin Division, Twelfth Subdivision) to gain access to Milwaukee. In 1977, I followed a train westward on the line between North Milwaukee, roughly, to Rugby Junction where the train switched over to the Soo main. I have one shot after that, near Slinger, Wisconsin, on the Soo Line itself. I’ve split this up over three installments.
To finish this series of posts, we now see two images of our train at Pleasant Hill Road, in Richfield, Wisconsin. The next three pictures shows it at Rugby Junction: it can first be seen using the connection between Milwaukee Road and Soo Line mains. The next two pictures were made from where Scenic Road crosses the tracks.
The final image has the train on the Soo Line main now, seen from the Highway 60 overpass, south of Slinger, Wisconsin. The quality of the right-of-way is noticeably better here on the Soo!
Six images by Richard Koenig; taken February 26th 1977.
