In fact, the home where Rich Peters once lived is on here also!!!!!

If you can enlarge the photo, starting in the lower left is 14t Street, with Mid-State Oil alongside the M&T near the bottom edge. Oak Avenue parallels the M&T until the M&T turns away to the Northeast after crossing the C&NW. The Buttertub Track comes off in front of Mengel's, crosses 11th Street and then turns east-northeast. Blodgett Lumber Co. lays out along their spur, from the one-lane dirt road that crosses it all the way east (right in the Photo) to Spruce Avenue. At the End of Blodgett's spur, there looks to be a shed of some sort, but this should be the coal unloading trestle. Perhaps it had some sort of covered walkway. I've never seen a photo of it.

Directly above Blodgett are the Blum Brothers Box Company buildings. That includes what appears to be piles of logs streaming outwards towards the Buttertub Track.

The Buttertub disappears behind Blum Brothers in the center; the unattached building to the right os the Offuce for the Box Company. Next is Marshfield bedding, then Wisconsin Buttertub Co., then Dohm Oil, then Standard Oil. The C&NW's Marshfied Depot is just out of sight to the right edge of the photo.

Three-quarters of the way up the M&T is the Mid State Cheese Co., and directly above that is the Municipal Garage. Weinbrenner's Shoe Co., Gateway Lumber and the Marshfield Milling Co. are directly right of the City Garage.

Even Hub City Jobbing Co., Stock-gro, Felker Brothers Mfg., Marshfield Cold Storage and the Soo Line Depot appear in this photo.

The photo dates from around 1950, I'm guessing. I can't quite recall when the City built the Municipal Garage. At one time, the City used to get in tank cars of Asphalt, spotted at the end of the spur that serviced Gateway Lumber. The portable boiler they used to heat carloads of asphalt stood in the rear of the garage yard for many years. The Gateway Lumber Spur used to be one of two spurs that served Upham's Sawmill.

Keith

Keith

When this photo was taken, the line to Merrillan was out of service---the Diamond with the M&T had been removed, never to be reinstalled again. In the Article Behrens later authored for NORTH WESTERN LINES, Behrens stated that the Diamonds over the Soo's Nekoosa Line, Main Line and Siding---the line to Wausau and Eland---had been removed, severing service, but that was not what happened. The C&NW pulled out the diamond with the M&T, the crossings with the Soo on the Eland Line remained in until the C&NW abandoned out of Marshfield in 1982. C&NW pulled out a couple of sections of rail just north of their spur in to Wisconsin Homes, severing the line at that point. Wisconsin Homes and a local construction firm continued getting carloads right up until the C&NW left Marshfield.

The Construction firm used the Bottling Plant portion of the basically empty Marshfield Brewery and their spur for unloading their cars.

On the Buttertub, Mall Furniture continued to received carload furniture until the very end, about two cars per month. Soo Line spotted 3 or 4 carloads of air-dried lumber on the Buttertub behind the Blum Bros. factory building for Modern of Marshfield, but MoM never became much of a rail customer.

If there was any chance of Modern of Marshfield becoming a Rail customer, Soo Line blew it off, just as they seemed to prefer not serving Mall Furniture, either. When the C&NW abandoned out of Marshfield, the Buttertub was lifted at the same time. Thus endth rail service to the two customers left on the Buttertub track.

Keith

Modern was never much of a Rail customer that I ever knew of.

In 197?-something, Modern of Marshfield and Mall Furniture effected a building swap. Mall Furniture got their start in the Blum Brothers Box Company Factory. Modern of Marshfield began expanding greatly near the end of the 1970's and needed a larger facility. Mall Furniture had a building far too large for their needs, so the two simply swapped buildings.

The two firms still occupy these same facilities.

Keith

McCrillis was one of at least 3 independant Ice Dealers located in Marshfield. I note that in this photo, it looks as though the C&NW has a couple of cars sitting at this Ice House for icing, indicating McCrillis did ice RR cars. In the C&NW's case, this made sense, as the C&NW had no Icing Facilities in Marshfield.

Wisconsin Buttertub Company hasn't been built yet at the time of this photo. McCrillis operated until at least WWII, and was out of Business by the end of the war. This Ice House was torn down shortly thereafter, and the easternmost portion of the land sold to Nig Dohm who operated the Deep Rock Oil Dealership there for many years.

Keith

Keith

Keith

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