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Bill Edgar • Operating on the Milwaukee Road's Wisconsin #125 OCTOBER 20202020 1:160 SINCEINCE 20002000 Bill Edgar • Operating on the Milwaukee Road’s Wisconsin Valley Line Keith Schaber • DPM Structures: More than a Just a Kit in a Bag Kirk Reddie • Thoughts on Modeling Passenger Trains N SCALE RAILROADING 1 #125 OCTOBER 2020 NN SCALESCALE RAILROADINGRAILROADING WELCOME!WELCOME! Cover. The editor’s evolving Welcome to N Scale stand-in ~1950 Union Pacific #457 Railroading #125, the OCTOBER works its way north through heavily October, 2020 issue. photoshopped bluffs and the Colum- Page 04. Bill Edgar shares 2020 bia River north of Portland. Want to ISSUE 125 see this scene without photoshop? how he operates his Wis- Click here. #457 took the Oakland consin, Minnesota & North- PUBLISHER & EDITOR cars north to Seattle later but in 1950 ern System operating as the Kirk Reddie Milwaukee Road’s Wiscon- [email protected] they went north on Northern Pacific Mr. Answering Machine #407. It’s a long story that I am still sin Valley Line. Operators 206•364•1295 learning. I will probably practice yet Bill’s graphic support of his railroad is amazing. ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER another selective anachronism. (ADVERTISING ONLY) Hyperlinks are in red. These will Denny Hamilton probably eventually de-link. Page 19. New Products. 262•347•1068 [email protected] Do you have a favorite passenger train you have modeled? A favorite Page 25. My first memo- PREVENTOR OF GARBALANCHES building? Why not share in the pages ries of Keith Schaber was Elaine R. R. his love of buildings and of N Scale Railroading? Get adequate SUBSCRIBER #125 photos of adequate models and I thought he must be an Michael N. Armstrong similar minded folks will find you and architect. I am honored as I am surprised that he finally ***** Talent Emeritus ***** compare experiences. ISSUES 001-117 wrote an article on creat- ART DIRECTOR ing unique structures from Bill Edgar DPM (Design Preservation Ad Index PHILOSOPHER KING OF HUE Models) kits. The plan is Spencer Rossman Great Beach! to follow this introduction with articles with specific SLAYER OF UNINTENTIONAL Start Your GRAMMATICAL ATROCITIES techniques and how-tos. Dennis Hartnett Surfing Here! Page 33. Passenger trains SUBSCRIPTIONS: N Scale Railroading is a free monthly digital periodical, but Atlas 05 www.atlasrr.com are one of my N interests. it is still copyrighted. Blair Line Products 13 www.blairline.com It can be frustrating to find Back issues will still be available at nscalerailroadn.com Bluford Shops 13 www.bluford-shops.com prototype information. I Digitrax 15 www.digitrax.com Contributing to NSR: Factory Direct Hobbies 07 factorydirecthobbies.com decided to list N models by We welcome your contributions including articles and high Fifer Hobby Supply 17 www.fiferhobby.com body style and graph com- resolution photos. For information email us at: Jacksonville Terminal 09, 11 www.JTCmodeltrains.com mercial trains, and perhaps [email protected] Kato USA 03 www.katousa.com add our custom trains. And Lombard Hobbies 16 www.lombardhobby.com We assume no responsibility for the safe return of unsolicited materials. We assume unsolicited materials www.modeltrainstuff.com 13 www.modeltrainstuff.com I share my hunt for model- are intended for publishing by N SCALE RAILROADING, N Scale Architect 13 www.thenarch.com ing UP #457/#458. Maybe I and that letters, questions, news releases, and club news N Scale Division 15 www.nscaledivision.com am half the way there... are contributed gratis. For details, visit contributing at: N Scale Enthusiast 21 www.nscalecollector.com nscalerailroadn.com N Scale Supply 17 www.nscalesupply.com Page 44. NCalendar and Copyright 2020 NTRAK 44 www.ntrak.org North American N Scale Publishing. All rights reserved. Streamline Backshop Services 13 www.SBS4DCC.com Observations. w N SCALE RAILROADING 2 #125 OCTOBER 2020 N SCALE RAILROADING 3 #125 OCTOBER 2020 The Wisconsin, Minnesota & Northern System’s Operations No. 1: The Milwaukee Road’s Wisconsin Valley Line By Bill Edgar/photos by author Milwaukee Road’s Wausau South Patrol begins work at Mosinee, Wisconsin. The WSP crew stops at the station to determine the day’s chores here. Milwaukee used the term “patrol’ for many of their local freights, in this case a turn working south from Wausau. This patrol works south in the morning, then returns to Wausau to become the Wausau North Patrol and will work north of Wausau and up the ore branch later in the afternoon. he Wisconsin, Minnesota & Northern System was de- over the years as forest resources were depleted. signed for operating my favorite Midwestern railroads. The line became a lucrative route for the Milwaukee Road If a railroad served Duluth, Minnesota, it was a favorite as the paper industry grew in a number of cities along the line. of mine. I am starting with the Milwaukee Road since it Today, the line is still operated between New Lisbon and Toma- has been a favorite since childhood and had not pre- hawk by Canadian National, and trackage rights on portions of Tviously had much of a presence in my last 20 years of model- the line have been given to Canadian Pacific and Union Pacific. ing in N scale. My first HO model was an Athearn rubber band The Wisconsin Public Service (Wisconsin Energy Group) oper- drive Milwaukee Road F7A, followed soon by a GP9. These ran ates a large coal fired generating plant near Wausau, consuming on my first 4x8 HO layout in the early 1960s, and my collection approximately 6500 tons of coal daily, received by rail. expanded to include Great Northern, Burlington and Chicago & North Western. Not much has changed in sixty years, other than Operating Planning switched to N scale and added many more of my favorite rail- The Wisconsin Valley Line tied its origins to the early lumber roads to the collection. industry in the state with logging branches located along the We moved from Wenatchee, Washington to Menomonie, route. Milwaukee Road’s desire to reach Lake Superior led it to Wisconsin in 2018 ending the seven year life span of my North build portions of the trunk line and acquire a number of logging Shore International Railway. This gave me the opportunity to branches. Some of those branches were still being built while design a more generic layout and acquire a better collection of others were abandoned in the early 1900s. As the lumber indus- Milwaukee Road power and cabooses during the layout’s de- try declined, the paper industry grew, along with agriculture in sign and construction. With completion of track and wiring in the region. The territory, especially north of Wausau remains July 2020, I decided to develop and test operating strategies for an important recreational retreat, and explains why passenger the Milwaukee Road. The Milwaukee vied with C&NW and SOO train service lasted into 1970 from New Lisbon to Wausau. for dominance in Wisconsin and three carriers could be found I have added some fiction to the operations by keeping the serving most major cities. A bit of research led to exploration passenger train in service north to Minocqua and using an of Milwaukee operations on its Wisconsin Valley Line, which abandoned branch line from Otis to Grandy, Wis. for an iron ore ran north from New Lisbon, Wis. (Twin Cities-Chicago mainline) branch with a spur serving a lumber mill and quarry. Figure 1 to Woodruff, Wis. and beyond through Wisconsin Rapids and on the next page provides a map of the line and nearby region Wausau.. I chose the mid 1960s for my operations. circa 1965. It includes highlighting showing the portion of the line the layout represents. Figure 2 shows Milwaukee Road’s ac- The Wisconsin Valley Line tual timetables for the line, made up of, the 13th and 14th Subdi- Named for the Wisconsin River, the Wisconsin Valley Line got visions. These were issued in their Employee Timetable No. 23, an early start back in 1873. It was completed to Wausau by 1874, effective October 31, 1965. These were the bases for developing but various segments and branch lines off the primary trunk my timetable shown in Figure 3. were built as late as 1914. Many segments were trimmed back My timetable uses Milwaukee’s train numbers 263 and 272 N SCALE RAILROADING 4 #125 OCTOBER 2020 Arriving Soon from Long Island Atlas Classic® N RS-1 Locomotives Green Mountain Morristown & Erie Amtrak Milwaukee Road Pennsylvania Santa Fe Susquehanna 240 Susquehanna 238 Officially licensed product of Amtrak® Amtrak is a registered trademark of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation. Green Mountain 405 Back by Popular Demand! Visit www.atlasrr.com today and sign up to become an Atlas Insider! We’ll deliver the latest Atlas news directly to your email inbox! N SCALEATLAS RAILROADING MODEL RAILROAD CO, INC. • 378 Florence 5 Ave., Hillside, NJ 07205 • www.atlasrr.com #125 OCTOBER 2020 NSRad Oct 2020.indd 1 9/23/20 10:28 AM THE WISCONSIN VALLEY LINE Calumet Rail lines in service circa 1965 From DOT 1975; RR Maps & Time Tables Houghton Ontonagon 1 Bayfield White Pine 1 ONTONAGON Rockland To Marquette HOUGHTON 1 BARAGA Bergland 1 Connorsville Sidnaw Iron River(SOO) To Duluth 2 To Marquette 1 Ashland 1 1 Ashland Jct. 1 2 Wakefield 2 Ironwood1 MICHIGAN Marengo Hurley IRON BAYFIELD GOGEBIC Key: 1 1 IRON Blue Bill To Green Bay Mellen 1 Watersmeet 1 Gibbs City 2 Annual ton miles ratings (1–7+ based on DOT study, 1 lowest) 1 Track not signaled Johnson’s Camp Knudson ABS signaled WISCONSIN Land O’Lakes CTC signaled Cable Papoose/ Iron River 1 Track/2 or more tracks Boswell To Duluth ASHLAND Star Lake MILW WIS.
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