Rail Freight Carriers in

Wisconsin

A Wisconsin & Southern Railroad freight train at Hartford WI.
The lead locomotive is 2322, leased from GATX Rail.
Both 2322 and 3893 are EMD GP38-2 2000hp Bo-Bo diesel electrics.

Long Haul Railways

BNSF, CN, CPKC, Union Pacific

Regional & Local Railways

• Ardent Mills switching services at its flour mill in Kenosha, interchanging with CPKC and Union Pacific (Website contains no details relating to railway)
• Badger Mining Corporation switching services at its sand processing facility in Taylor, interchanging with CN (Website contains no details relating to railway)
• Bunge switching services at its grain storage and shipping facility in Superior (Website contains no details relating to railway)
• Cando switching services at the Domtar pulp and paper mills at Nekoosa and Rothschild, interchanging with CN at both locations
• DeLong Organics switching services its grain loading facility at Avalon, interchanging with Wisconsin & Southern (Website contains no details relating to railway)
• Domtar switching services at its paper mill in Rothschild, interchanging with CN (Website contains no details relating to railway)
• East Troy Electric Railroad Mukwonago (interchange with CN) to East Troy. Electrified at 600V DC overhead. Total length of line about 8 miles (13 km). Also operates tourist passenger trains (Website contains no details relating to freight operations)
• Escabana & Lake Superior Railroad Green Bay (interchange with CN) via Stiles Junction (branch to Oconto Falls), Crivitz (branch to Marinette, where there is interchange with CN), Pembine (interchange with CN and trackage rights over CN to Escanaba MI) and Arbutus to destinations in MI. Total length of line about 188 miles (303 km)
• Flambeau River Papers switching services at its paper mill in Park Falls, interchanging with CN (Website contains no details relating to railway)
• Fox Valley & Lake Superior Rail System several disconnected lines:
  • Green Bay (interchange with CN) to Denmark, about 16 miles (25 km)
  • Green Bay (interchange with CN) to Luxemburg, about 17 miles (27 km)
  • Appleton (interchange with CN) to Shawano, about 44 miles (71 km)
  • Appleton (interchange with CN) to New London, about 19 miles (31 km)
  • Appleton (interchange with CN) to Kaukauna, about 8 miles (12 km)
  • Spencer (interchange with CN) to Medford, about 28 miles (44 km)
  • Rothschild (interchange with CN and Wisconsin Public Service) via Tomahawk (interchange with Tomahawk Railway), Bradley (branch to Rhinelander) and Prentice to Park Falls, a total of about 137 miles (221 km)
• Manitowoc Port & Terminal Railway switching railway in the Port of Manitowoc, interchanging with CN. Total length of line about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) (No website located at present)
• Rail & Transload switching railway in Watertown, interchanging with CPKC, Union Pacific and Wisconsin & Southern (When last checked, website was infected with malware)
• Railserve switching services at the S C Johnson manufacturing facility in Waxdale, interchanging with CPKC and Union Pacific (Website contains no details relating to specific location)
• Smart Sand switching services at its sand processing facility in Oakdale, near Tomah, interchanging with CPKC (Website contains no details relating to railway)
• Superior Refinery switching services at its refinery in Superior, interchanging with CN (Website contains no details relating to railway)
• Tomahawk Railway Tomahawk (interchange with Fox Valley & Lake Superior) to West Craft. Total length of line about 8 miles (13 km)
• Watco Rail Services switching services at ND Paper, Biron, interchanging with CN
• We Energies switching services at its coal fired power plant in Oak Creek, interchanging with Union Pacific (Website contains no details relating to railway)
• Wisconsin & Southern Railroad an extensive network of lines in WI and IL:
  • Monroe via Janesville (interchange with CPKC and Union Pacific and branch to Milton Junction, see below) and Bardwell (branch to Elkhorn) to Fox Lake IN
  • Lines radiating from Madison, where there is interchange with CPKC:
    • via Milton Junction (branch to Jainsville, see above) to Waukesha (interchange with CN and Union Pacific and trackage rights over CN to Rugby Junction, see below)
    • to Cottage Grove
    • to Watertown (interchange with CPKC, Union Pacific and Rail & Transload)
    • to Reedsburg
    • via Mazomanie (branch to a point near Sauk City) to Crawford (interchange with BNSF)
    • to Oregon. A section from Oregon to Brooklyn is out of service
  • Lines radiating from North Milwaukee:
    • via Granville (interchange with Union Pacific and branch to West Bend), Rugby Junction (interchange with CN and trackage rights over CN to Waukesha, see above), Iron Ridge (branch to Mayville), Horicon (branch to Cambria) and Brandon (branch to Markesan) to Oshkosh
    • via Canco (interchange with Union Pacific) and Plymouth (branch to Kohler, where there is interchange with Union Pacific) to Kiel (interchange with CN)
    • to Grand Avenue (interchange with CPKC and trackage rights over CPKC to destinations in IL)
  • Fond du Lac (interchange with CN) to Eden
  Total length of line about 820 miles (1320 km)
• Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad Hayward Junction (interchange with CN) to Hayward, about 6 miles (10 km). Operates tourist passenger trains on a separate section of its line (Website contains no details relating to freight operations)
• Wisconsin Northern Railroad Chippewa Falls (interchange with Union Pacific and Wisconsin & Southern) via Cameron (branch to Almena) to Rice Lake; total length of line about 62 miles (100 km)
• Wisconsin Public Service switching services at each of its coal fired power plants:
  • Columbia power plant at Portage, interchanging with CPKC
  • Weston power plant at Rothschild, interchanging with CN and Fox Valley & Lake Superior
  (Website contains no details relating to railways)

Military Railway

Websites do not in general contain details of railway facilities

• US Army serving Fort McCoy (junction with CPKC, also Union Pacific by trackage rights)