Wisconsin Northern Railroad
After documenting the repairs on WN # 1500, Arlyn Colby discovered that the road crew had some covered hoppers on the ground back in Barron, Wisconsin. The crew at Norma had their work well in hand, so Arlyn hot-footed it back home to see what had happened there.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - Barron, Wisconsin Day One
Arlyn says, "On Tuesday morning, April 22, as the WN crew was finishing switching Barron, 5 hopper cars derailed. 2 were empty plastics cars and 3 were loaded with turkey food." Webmaster says, "Click on the picture to see it full-size."
	d01.jpg -- http://tinyurl.com/5b6onb
	d02.jpg -- http://tinyurl.com/6okjte
	d03.jpg -- http://tinyurl.com/6n667x
	d04.jpg -- http://tinyurl.com/5cdsmx
	The 2 empty plastics cars were rerailed quite easily using a rerailing frog. They were then pulled by 1501 to the west side of Barron. d05.jpg -- http://tinyurl.com/66k376
	d06.jpg -- http://tinyurl.com/5878wk
	The 3 loaded cars would pose much more of a problem. These would be pulled to the east by 34 (if possible). d07.jpg -- http://tinyurl.com/6zupbm
	The first step was to cut (torch) the rail as the rail laying on its side would continue to tip as the cars would be pulled. d08.jpg -- http://tinyurl.com/65zeqb
	d09.jpg -- http://tinyurl.com/6gk5q7
	While this was going on, the Jenny O-Turkey Store boys were using their trackmobile to get a loaded car on the west side of Barron. d10.jpg -- http://tinyurl.com/6q3roq
	d11.jpg -- http://tinyurl.com/5roxh7
	The workers worked hard trying to rerail the first car, but with one rail on its side and the heavy weight, the wheel didn't want to climb back onto the rail. d12.jpg -- http://tinyurl.com/58afax
	SHOOT -- Almost had it!! d13.jpg -- http://tinyurl.com/6223dm
After some more unsuccessful efforts, the day was called. Plans are to rerail it on Wednesday.              (Click here)
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