The Marshfield & Texas Railroad
Marshfield, Wisconsin
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M&T-2 Power Plant 1899.jpg (below)
OK boys n' girlz, here are a few M&T shots from my collection of useless garbage. I'm going to send out a few snippets throughout the week, by no means am I going to try to send everything. It looks as though I will be able to perform a "Clinic" for the Winnebagoland NMRA Meet in Marshfield on October 30 concerning the M&T, so I'm busy scanning in what I have, correlating some of it with what Bruce sent me last week, and making a relatively coherent presentation via CD.

I'm NOT going to send everything. Ron Hanneman gets that dubious honor---he's burning the CD for me.

This first shot is from a Post Card view of the Power Plant ca. 1899-1900 shortly after Upham Mfg. built it. Keep this to compare later views on how this building morphed into something else!

Keith

M&T-3 Power Plant pre-WWI.jpg (below)
By 1920, the Municipal Power Plant looked like this. Note that the Spur into the Power Plant ends very short of the building. This is the way the track arrangement stayed until I really don't know when.

I'm also not very certain how much coal this facility was using at this time, either, nor how they unloaded it---much less how they got it IN the plant itself.

Keith

M&T-4 Power Plant 1920.jpg (below)
I'm not really certain what year the Upham Manufacturing Co. sold the Power Plant to the City of Marshfield. I've heard anywhere from 1912 to 1925. Here is a shot of the Plant about the mid-1920's. It is City owned by the time of this shot, and the City has added on to it and installed a bigger Turbine/Generator set. The M&T itself is on the opposite side of the building.
Keith
M&T-5 Power Plant Late 20's.jpg (below)
The Marshfield Electric & Water Department, including the sum total of their employees and line trucks, such as they were, ca. 192?

Here the Generator side of the plant has been extended once again, indicating the addition of another boiler/generator set to expand the capabilities of the power plant to match Marshfield's growing electrical needs.

Keith

M&T-6 Power Plant & Cooling Pond 1935.jpg (below)
By 1935, the Power Plant had morphed in to this. This shot looks southeast, more or less. This is the "Lower Cooling Pond" and behind the photographer is the area where the City put up their Zoo. It's not extant at the time of this photo yet.

Keith

M&T 7 Power Plant 1940.jpg (below)
In 193? the City rebuilt the Control Room side of the Power Plant. This was the side where all the controls were; in the summer, when the employee would leave those double doors open, it was a sight to look inside at the giant panels that inhabited the interior with their collection of gauges, red, blue, yellow, green and orange lights, and differing sized control handles.

This part of the building's facade never changes once the City added it. It's roofline would change, but the exterior we see here did not, including the Aluminum lettering along the top edge of the building.

Keith

M&T-8 Power Plant & Cooling Pond 1940.jpg (below)
By the mid-1940's, the Power Plant looked like this. Note the original one-story building on this side has been replaced as the building and Marshfield's power needs continued to grow.

This is a postcard shot, and one that was used for a "Bit 'O Larceny" by the City for years. Had I not shown other views, you would be under the distinct impression this is a lake of decent proportions. No; it is the farthest western reach of the Lower Cooling Pond, photographed in such a way to make one think this is a pretty good-sized body of water. It's a possibility the photographer used a different lens to get this effect.

Keith

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