Train Crew Makes Last Run on Branch Line, Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1961
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- 01/25/1961
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Newspaper Clipping Description: Black and white picture of 5 men in front of the train and depot in Richland Center. Front Print: “Train Crew Makes Last Run On Branch Line, Harold Ray, Fireman; Forrest Voss, Engineer; Harry Moe Conductor; Harry Dyer and Robert Ziel, Brakemen, made their last run on the Richland Center branch line of the Milwaukee Road this Wednesday. Richland Center will now have freight service only three days a week, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturdays. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays the train will leave Madison and service the branch line to Sauk City and then will go on to Marquette, Iowa, returning to Lone Rock and up to Richland Center on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and then back to Madison. Thus another era ends in Richland Center. This may be one of the reasons that our city has a hard time getting industry to locate here because of the lack of dependable rail service as many industries prefer to use the railroads to trucks. A photo of the first engine to
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Fogo, Steven William (1878-1962)
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- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Richland County History Room
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Brewer Public Library - Subjects
- Left to right (5): Ray, Harold F. (1909-1982)
Voss, Forrest
Moe, Harry
Dyer, Harry
Ziel, Joseph Robert ‘Bob’ (1904-1964)
Orange Street
Highway 14
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- This work by Richland County History Room, Richland Center Wisconsin is licensed under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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- Fogo, Steven William (1878-1962). Train Crew Makes Last Run on Branch Line, Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1961. 01/25/1961. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/rchr/id/5457. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
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- Fogo, Steven William (1878-1962), (01/25/1961) Train Crew Makes Last Run on Branch Line, Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1961. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/rchr/id/5457
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- Fogo, Steven William (1878-1962). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/rchr/id/5457>.