Wisconsin and Southern Railroad
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#Regional_railroads_in_the_United_States
#Illinois_railroads
#Wisconsin_railroads
#Spin-offs_of_the_Chicago,_Milwaukee,_St._Paul_and_Pacific_Railroad
#Railway_companies_established_in_1980
#Companies_operating_former_Chicago,_Milwaukee,_St._Paul_and_Pacific_Railroad_lines
#Companies_operating_former_Chicago_and_North_Western_Transportation_Company_lines
#Watco
#Companies_operating_former_Canadian_Pacific_Railway_lines
#1980_establishments_in_Illinois
A Wisconsin and Southern train passes the Middleton, Wisconsin depot eastbound toward Madison The Wisconsin and Southern Railroad （reporting marks WAMX,
WSOR） is a Class II regional railroad in Southern Wisconsin and Northeastern Illinois currently operated by Watco.
It operates former Chicago, Milwaukee, St.
Paul and Pacific Railroad （Milwaukee Road） and Chicago and North Western Railway （C&NW） trackage, mostly acquired by the state of Wisconsin in the 1980s.
Within Wisconsin, WSOR connects with four western Class I railroads: BNSF Railway, Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway, and Union Pacific Railroad.
Through trackage rights over Metra, WSOR accesses Chicago to connect with the two eastern Class I railroads, CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway.
WSOR also has access to harbor facilities in Prairie du Chien, and transload facilities are located in Milwaukee, Janesville, Madison, and Oshkosh.
22 grain elevators have located rail load-out facilities on the WSOR system.
For train operation purposes, the WSOR system is divided into two divisions, the Northern Division and the Southern Division.
The Northern Division is essentially the original WSOR trackage from 1980, with a few new lines that have been added around the Milwaukee area since the 1990s.
It includes the line northwest from Milwaukee to Horicon, where it splits into branches to Cambria and Oshkosh, as well as a line from Milwau...