For what it's worth, the former MILW is owned and at times even
maintained by the BN/BNSF from the switch of the interchange
track to the crossing at the North end of the fertilizer plant.
It was my understanding that Prairie Sand & Gravel owns from
that point to the end of track downtown.
The scale down by the riverbank was the one from La Crosse.
Sold for personal profit by a BN Trainmaster, as were that bunch
of carbodies from derailments that are scattered around that area.
It is interesting that the BN/BNSF, WICT/WSOR, and Prairie Sand
and Gravel all use that trackage from the interchange to the end of
track without any timetable reference to the fact that all three could
be out there at the same time.
Russ
> > The interlocking can be accessed from the blacktop road which is
> > on the south side of the PDC prison area. There is a gravel road
> > that goes south and takes one down toward the interlocker. The
> > gravel road is located a few blocks east of the Q's mainline.
> > IIRC, the BNSF signal maintainer lives south of the WSOR mainline
> > and has a Q baggage car on his property.
> >
> > LWA
>
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>
> I must have missed that when I was at Crawford 3 weeks ago. I was up
> there to take a picture of the exact site of where the tower once
> stood with the operator (my grandfather, Allan M. Caya) from the 1960
> picture standing on the remains of the foundation.
>
> Thanks
>
> Samuel T. Weber
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