The Marshfield & Texas Railroad
Marshfield, Wisconsin
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M&T-125.jpg (below)
In this view I aligned myself with where the Weinbrenner Spur HAD been; if you look closely at the granite, you'll see a washboard effect and that is the ties still there underneath.

The Milling Company is gone by the time I shot this, torn down to "Beautify" the area, because local officials considered the empty buildings to be "An Eyesore". Well, it was more of an Eyesore AFTER they took down the Mill & Elevator buildings!

So much for Esthetic Improvement.

Keith

M&T-126.jpg (below)
Looking back down the Weinbrenner Spur. I wanted to shoot the dock coming out of the Conkey Warehouse. You can just see it beyond the Endloader to the left.

To connect the Conkey Warehouse to the Main Milling Company Buildings, they used a steel sawhorse with removable platforms that met on top of the sawhorse, forming a bridge. This had to be removed each time the Switch Engine had to get past it to switch Weinbrenners. One time, in the dark of night, while switching this track, the crew didn't see/didn't look for that sawhorse and platforms in the center of the spur. They hit it and demolished it all! This resulted in the Soo Line and the Milling Company having a mini-battle over who's fault was what. Soo Line claimed absolution since there was no light illuminating this area, the Milling Company said the Soo was at fault for no employee was protecting that last car.

In the end, the Soo paid to repair the sawhorse and bridge platforms, while the Milling Company paid for a new night light.

Business......you gotta love it.

Keith

M&T-127.jpg (below)
Look at the lines in the Concrete and you'll see where the Weinbrenner Spur USED to be. This is West 2nd Street.

Keith

M&T-128.jpg (below)
A view of Weinbrenner's loading dock. Note they closed off the railcar door with plywood.

Keith

M&T-129.jpg (below)
Looking north, back at Weinbrenner's loading dock. Prior to 1980, Weinbrenners spur ran almost to 3rd street, behind me. Don't laugh; it had been cut back from the days when it serviced Upham's Furniture Factory and Warehouse. Weinbrenner having a spur that long never did make much sense, because they never loaded/unloaded more than one car at a time. Instead of packing Weinbrenner full, Soo seemed to prefer making two or more moves per day to keep cars switched.

Keith

M&T-130 Weinbrenner East.jpg (below)
Period view of Weinbrenner Shoe Co. taken from one of the fourth floor windows of the Milling Company Mill building. Dates from 1955. Note the original Dock, and the planking, especially farther back down the spur for unloading freight cars.

Keith

M&T-131.jpg (below)
Looking back at the Milling Company, showing the wooden dock along the Weinbrenner Spur and the covered truck dock.

Keith

M&T-132.jpg (below)
The Elevator building of the Milling Company with a snatch of the new offices on the right.

Keith

M&T-133.jpg (below)
The north side of the rear of the milling company. The insul-brick covered building shows up from before. The Weinbrenner track runs to the right of the warehouse.

Keith

M&T-134.jpg (below)
The "New" cinder block warehouse attached to the Elevator building. The Milling Compant Spur ran up in between both and both had dock doors fronting this spur.

The Stainless Steel tanks are "Extra" work for Stainless & Repair, which is a building I haven't identified because they did no rail business.

Keith

M&T-135.jpg (below)
View looking north along the Milling Co. spur, taken from the Platform of the Milling Company that fronted west 2nd Street. To the left is the Mill and the older warehouse addition.

The pipe running diagonally from Mill to the Elevator was installed sometime in the late ' 70's.

Keith

M&T-136.jpg (below)
View looking north at the opposite side with the Elevator and vew warehouse addition.

Keith

SooLineHistory Group Index and Map 1 - The Story 2 - Pictures
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23 - Pictures 24 - Speculations

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