Pictorial of The 30th State

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The ÔÇ£4-spotÔÇØ Steam Locomotive "PRAIRIE" style

was built in 1916 by the Vulcan Iron Works in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.
brought to Laona for use in the logging industry

classification based on wheel arrangement.

The PRAIRIE style is a 2-6-2,
which means there are 2 leading wheels,
6 coupled driving wheels, and 2 trailing wheels.

The first American Prairie type
were built in 1900 by Brook
for the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad
for use in the Mid-West prairies

















The Camp 7 caboose
is an 18 passenger "up in the air" cupola style caboose.
It was originally the Duluth, Mesabi, & Iron Range caboose #589
The Camp 5 caboose was Soo LineÔÇÖs Caboose No. 147.

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tranquil pond with blue sky reflection
lily pads, cattails
& Northern Wisconsin wild flower bloom

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Antigo, Wisconsin








The city was founded in 1878 by Francis A. Deleglise
The log cabin (foreground) in which Deleglise lived is preserved and on display
at the Langlade County Museum Grounds (background)







The Langlade County Museum
housed in the 1902 Carnegie library building
The building housed the Antigo Public Library from 1905 to 1997.

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Antigo, Wisconsin





Chicago & North Western

The 440 locomotive
is a 2-8-0 Baldwin constructed in 1900
and is a close relative of the Chicago and Northwestern 175
the last steam engine to travel through Antigo in 1957

During 1917, the peak year of railroad travel in northern Wisconsin
it is estimated that 77% of all freight
and 98% of all passengers traveled by rail

after the turn of the century,
railroadÔÇÖs transported large quantities of agricultural goods to market
During its peak, the Antigo rail depot
saw 10,000 rail cars of potatoes pass through during the harvest season

railroad passenger service was secondary to the moving of timber

By World War I,
passenger increased their rail traveling in order to visit seldom-seen relatives
or even to shop in the big cities of Milwaukee and Chicago

from 1917 to 1950, the railroad operated ÔÇ£fish runsÔÇØ
special cars carried fishermen on trips
to resorts in northern Wisconsin or MichiganÔÇÖs Upper Peninsula

info from Langlade County Historical Society

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The Windmill Ice Cream Shoppe


Dutch Mill
on Lake Nokomis - 6 miles North of Tomahawk, Wis.

the building built and used as a filling station

6-bladed windmill
In the top of the tower is an electric motor that drives a gearcase
The gearcase is connected to an axle that runs the blades

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Really nice pics Jim, as always.

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something you wouldn't expect to see in Wisconsin,
an Alaska Railroad
Budd Rail Diesel Car
RDC or Buddliner
a self-propelled diesel unit railcar

1949ÔÇô62,
398 RDCs were built
by the Budd Company
of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


History
ARR 712-
#712 of the Alaska Railroad
Built:1951
(New York City's only Budd RDC-2)
owned by the Alaska Railroad since 1986
(RDC-2)- an 85 ft baggage and 70 seat passenger coach configuration
powered by two Detroit Diesel Series 110 diesel engines

RDC-1 - All-passenger configuration with control vestibules at each end.
RDC-2 - Mostly passenger with a small baggage compartment at one end.
RDC-3 - Half-passenger, half Baggage/Rolling Post Office.
RDC-4 - No passenger, half baggage/half RPO (only 73ft long)
RDC-9 - Powered Centre Car - no control vertibules, only usable as middle car with other RDCs.


Linky


photo taken September 2010 @ the Tomahawk Rail Yards,
Buddliner was on route to a special needs camp (www.eaglecovecamp.org)
near Rhinelander

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Marinette, Tomahawk & Western RR
No. 19
2-6-0
Circa 1924
located @ Tomahawk, Wisconsin

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The view from the lookout tower
@ the Wisconsin state highpoint ,
Timm's Hill - 1,951feet

This is the view of Bass Lake,
Wisconsin Rustic Road #62
and Highpoint Village











Rustic Road #62
@ High Point Village
Bass Lake in the foreground
& Timm's Hill in the background
with observation tower atop the Hill

A few other "high Points" in other states


Florida Highest Point Britton Hill, FL
345 feet

Delaware Highest Point Ebright Azimuth, DE
448 feet

Louisiana Highest Point Driskill Mt., LA
535 feet

Mississippi Highest Point Woodall Mt., MS
806 feet

Rhode Island Highest Point Jerimoth Hill, RI
812 feet

Illinois Highest Point Charles Mound, IL
1,235 feet

Indiana Highest Point Hoosier Hill Point, IN
1,257

Ohio Highest Point Campbell Hill, OH
1,549 feet

Iowa Highest Point Hawkeye Point, IA
1,670 feet

Michigan Highest Point Mt. Arvon, MI
1,979 feet

Missouri Highest Point Taum Sauk Mt., MO
1,772 feet

New Jersey Highest Point High Point, NJ
1,803 feet

Wisconsin Highest Point Timms Hill, WI
1,951feet


the lowest point in Colorado
is at the Kansas border @ 3320 feet

so, even an ant hill at the lowest point in Colorado,
would be 1369 feet higher than the highest point in Wisconsin

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Above:
Historic Ring School
@Timm's Hill/Omega Wisconsin

Below:
Building near Ring school


Note the similar construction on the building (Cupola)

I'm thinking the lower building photo may be another school
or
It may be a Town Hall

Wisconsin rural history of old Town Halls,

somehow I think small politics is good politics

As I tour the rural Wisconsin areas,
it is hard not to notice town, village and county halls
where the areas business gets done without huge buildings.. what democracy should be about

The attraction of this town hall was the porch with chairs.
Life was much simpler 100 years ago.

I have traveled past many halls,
but this is one of the few I stopped to take a photo of.
You can easily get carried away taking photos . . . cool old church,
cool bridge, cool barn, , must stop, cool town hall
keep going need to ride

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Wisconsin Rustic Road System