Mid Continent Railway Museum
North Feedom, WI
Aug. 14, 1971
| Before leaving grad school in Rolla, MO, friend Bill Welch and I made a trip to WI and IL in search of steam and other railroading. We drove all night to North Freedom, WI and the Mid-Continent Rail Museum. This McCloud River steamer #9 and a gas electric were sitting outside of the engine house when we arrived. |  |
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| Also sitting outside the engine house was this gas electric. From the Mid-Continent web site, "Montana Western #31 was completed on October 28, 1925 by the Electro-Motive Corporation of Cleveland, OH for Great Northern Railway as GN #2313. In 1940, the car was sold to Montana Western and became MW #31." |
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| Out back of the engine house, we found CB&Q 4960. I first saw this engine in Hannibal, MO when it was still in excursion service for the Burlington. Today it is in excursion service for the Grand Canyon Railway in Arizona. |  |
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| This New York Central 0-6-0 switcher sat at the far end of the string of steamers at North Freedom. |
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| This Chicago Great Western former gas-electric was parked out behind the engine house. |
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| Kewaunee Green Bay & Western #49 is seen sitting in front of C&NW #1385. |
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| The C&NW #1385 is seen just outside of the engine house. |
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| Central Illinois Public Works #6 is seen outside of the engine house in North Freedom. |
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| We then caught Western Coke & Coal #1 preparing for a trip to the other end of the line with the passenger train. |
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| The first photo shows D&R #9 returning from a passenger trip to the end of the line. It is then seen after it has run around the train which now has coupled to the train. D&R #9 then heads to the engine house, ending its day of operation. |
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| We boarded the train to ride to the other end of the line behind D&R #9. |
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| At the end of the line, I got this shot into the cab of Warren & Ouachita Valley #1, another former Arkansas locomotive. |
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| We then see it coupling onto the caboose of its train to head back to North Freedom. |
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| Western Coke & Coal #1 is seen passing our train with its bell ringing. It would be our power back to the station. |
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| When we got back to the station, Warren & Ouachita Valley #1 is waiting to take another train to the end of the line. |
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| Western Coke & Coke #1 is then seen heading toward the engine house so it can back down onto the passenger train. |
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| After D&R #9 got back to the station at North Freedom, the engine was sent to the house. I never saw it operate again that day or later. |
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| McCloud River #9 is seen steaming behind the Montana Western gas-electric. |  |
| And then it is seen trading places with Dardanelle & Russellville #9. |
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| We next see Warren & Ouachita Valley #1 is seen at the station. |
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| And then coupling to the passenger train on the siding. |
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| We then repositioned ourselves at Summit along Ulrich Rd. |
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| This train is powered by Western Coke & Coal. |
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| Our next train was led by McCloud River #9. |
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| Next we see the train pulled by Warren & Oauchita Valley #1. |
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| We then got the Western Coke & Coal train returning. |
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| The next train was headed by the Warren & Oauchita Valley engine. |
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| We then gotanother Western Coke & Coal train. |
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| McCloud River #9 is seen again heading to North Freedom. |
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| Our last train was a double header with Warren & Ouachita Valley #1 leading Western Coke & Coal #1. |
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