The Greenwood branch of the Soo Line Railroad
Marshfield to Greenwood, Wisconsin
SooLineHistory Group Index and Map Part 1 Part 2
Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6
Etcetera Part 8 Part 9 Part 10
Part 11 Part 12 Part 13 Part 14
Part 15 Part 16 Part 17 Part 18
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The Greenwood Line - Part 13

# 9 G-Line Greenwood UBC.jpg (below)
The Greenwood UBC as seen from the street side. The UBC spur ran in along the main building to where that truck dock was added. They had a freight door located near that portion.

Out behind, there was a crumbling coal bin, where some gent got in one car of coal per year until 1976. He sold that coal to the local Amish and Mennonite communities around the Spokeville-Loyal-Greenwood area for home heating purposes.

Keith

# 10 G-Line Stewarts Redville Dairy 2002.jpg (below)
This is the track side of Stewart's Redville Dairy in Greenwood, much ahead of where Bruce Oldenberg shot the last revenue run. Bruce would have been standing well up in those weeds in the center of the photograph.

Where the weeds hide the side of this building here on the near left is where Stewart's loading dock is, and that is where their spur went in. It wasn't long, and mostly could only accomodate one car easily.

It was on this now-abandoned spur that I saw the last Iced Refrigerator cars I would ever see in regular use: An ART steel car and a URTX/Soo Line wooden car. Not long afterwards, Soo Line announced it was quitting ice reerfers because Penn Central refused to reice cars any more. After this, Stewart's would only load out three more cars of cheese by rail. They distrusted Mechanical Refrigeration, although the factory here was equipped with it.

Mostly, Stewart's loads barely tipped the tare on a 50' Mechanical Reefer. It was actually a waste to load a car with cheese that, when loaded in a 50' car, came up to below your knees.

Keith

# 11 G-Line S Main (73) Greenwood West.jpg (below)
Looking west at South Main Street/Highway 73 where the Greenwood Line took off into the trees and eventually curved away to the right to connect with the Fairchild & North-Eastern well back up in the foliage.
Keith
# 12 G-Line S Main (73) Greenwood East.BMP (below)
Looking eastwards towards the Greenwood Yard---or, where it HAD been, along with the Depot and Turntable. Over here near the curb on the right, you could still see evidence of the Ag Lime Piles where Cooperative Services used to unload and leave their lime lay.

Keith

# 13 G-Line Greenwood 2 Holer 1968.jpg (below)
A classic portrait of the ingenuity of American Plumbing---the Greenwood Outhouse in a shot by Jack Staege, then the Soo's Marshfield Agent who was out with Eddie Kraemer on the then-new Traveling Agency # 10 route. This was 1968.

Keith

# 14 G-Line Greenwood Depot 1967.jpg (below)
Greenwood's classic Depot on a rainy day in June of 1967, shot by my Late Father, Neil Meacham. It was still an open agency at this time yet.

That's our Corvair parked out behind the Depot. As if God had a hand in this, Dad was able to make this shot in between Thunderstorms. It quit raining when we pulled up behind the depot and the dwell time lasted long enough for Dad to shoot this, and stop inside to BS with the Greenwood Agent, Jack Burke. Afterward, it rained for most of the rest of the day, including when we were in Owen and shot the F&N-E depot there.

The purpose that resulted in this photo was that Dad wanted to get a shot of the Fairchild & North-Eastern Depot in Greenwood-----which the Greenwood Fire Department burned to the ground the day BEFORE. I won't repeat what Dad said when he found that out.

Keith

# 14-A Greenwood, WI.jpg (below)
A shot of Greenwood from Soo Line Operator Larry Bosley. Larry relived at Greenwood in 1960 as a new hire employee working on the Extra Board for the Soo Line Railroad. Note that the platform was still in along the track in 1960. By 1967, it was gone.

Keith

# 14-B G-Line Eddie Kraemer & Greenwood Depot 1968.jpg (below)
A Jack Staege shot of TA # 10 and a nice rear view of the Greenwood Depot.

Keith

# 14-C G-Line Eddie K. & Greenwood Depot-2.jpg (below)
A slightly different angle from # 14-B.

Keith

# 15 G-Line Greenwood Depot 1968.jpg (below)
Another Jack Staege shot, with Eddie Kraemer standing on the Main Line side of the Greenwood depot.

Keith

SooLineHistory Group Index and Map Part 1 Part 2
Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6
Etcetera Part 8 Part 9 Part 10
Part 11 Part 12 Part 13 Part 14
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