The Wisconsin Valley Railroad
Tomah to Heafford Junction, Wisconsin
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Milwaukee 463 3.jpg (below, 1000 x 836, 7-1)
Another Bob Welke photograph, retrucked Alco RS3 # 463 works the south end of the Wausau Yard, ca. 1973. Note the TOFC flat next to the engine; trailer-on-flatcar was loaded out in Wausau for some time, although I cannot tell you what Wausau firm(s) used this service.
Milwaukee Road 109A Wausau, WI CW Photo.jpg (below, 1050 x 750, 7-2)
F7A # 109A rests in the cold of a Wisconsin winter's day near twilight south of the Wausau Roundhouse in a Carl Whittaker photo. No date.
Milwaukee Road 2GP20 992 WI Rapids 8-20-72 CW Photo.jpg (below, 867 x 619, 7-3)
Milwaukee Road GP9-cum-GP20 rebuild # 992 working as the Wisconsin Rapids Switch Engine on 20 August 1972.

Carl Whittaker photograph

Milwaukee Valley.jpg (below, 786 x 528, 7-4)
Courtesy of Bob Welke, the Tomahawk Patrol sauntering along between Wausau and Brokaw, Wis., on March 10, 1981. The SW1200 switcher cut in behind the engines is headed for Merrill to become that week's Switch Engine in Merrill.
MILWCab-S.Tomahawk-1970_JDR04.jpg (below, 862 x 672, 7-5)
A dark Jon Ruesch shot of the Tomahawk Patrol's caboose at Tomahawk, Wis., in the winter of 1970.
mkt1.jpg (below, 981 x 668, 7-6)
In 1978 (I think), Milwaukee Road borrowed locomotives from every conceivable source they could to alleviate their desperate shortage of servicable power, most of which sat dead in Milwaukee awaiting repairs the bankrupt Milwaukee Road couldn't afford. Units even found their way on to the Milwaukee from the Misourri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (Or M-K-T for short). Here one such unit works putting her train together at Wausau. No specific date, no photographer identified.

Webmaster's note: us Texians called this road "The Katy." I often saw these beauties between Austin and San Antonio back in the '70's...

Photo by Bob Schoneman

mkt2.jpg (below, 981 x 608, 7-7)
Another look at borrowed M-K-T power standing in Wausau, Wis., on the Milwaukee Road's Valley Line. The second unit is one bought second hand by the M-K-T from the Kennecot Copper Company. These units originally had high cabs and square, higher fuel tanks. M-K-T replaced the cabs with the standard height design, and some units got "Standard" sized fuel tank replacements as well.

Photo by Bob Schoneman

mkt3.jpg (below, 961 x 603, 7-8)
A M-K-T caboose stands idle next to the Milwaukee Road roundhouse in Wausau, Wis., ca, 1978. Obviously, Milwaukee was borrowing cabooses, too!

Photo by Bob Schoneman

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