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Owner:
Wisconsin Central
Model:
EMD SW1500
Built As:
SOU 2329 (SW1500)
Serial Number:
34503
Order No:
7139
Frame Number:
7139-30
Built:
12/1968
Notes:
nee SOU 2329 12/68. Sold to LTEX
Other locos with this serial:
WC 1566(SW1500)
NS 2329(SW1500)
SOU 2329(SW1500)
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Title:
WC 1566
Description:
CN switcher works the former SOO yard at Neenah, WI on 13 Dec. '13. This view would have been prevented by the dominating silhouette of the original Neenah Foundry facility, later known as Plant 1, which stood here for over ¾’s of a century. Established in 1872 as Aylward Plow Works (a.k.a. Aylward & Sons) at 120 N. Lake St., they erected a new foundry at 500 W. Winneconne Ave. in 1918 “in a rural area of southwestern Neenah.” Expanded numerous times over the years, it became Plant 1 in 1960 when Plant 2 was constructed in the then rural area at the intersection of Byrd Ave. and the aptly named Aylward St. (followed by Plant 3 in 1967). Plant 1 was closed in 1994, the corporate overlords didn’t want to spend money to update the plant. It stood abandoned for a while and was eventually demolished.
Photo Date:
12/13/2013
Upload Date:
12/17/2013 11:55:33 PM
Location:
Neenah, WI
Author:
T. P. Bruss
Categories:
Winter,Yard
Locomotives:
WC 1566(SW1500)
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