WSOR 1501 crosses Hwy D north of Random Lake, WI in October of 2009.

2001, A Space Odyssey? Not quite, but WSOR 2001 switches the interchange in Ackerville, WI in October of 2003. The GP/SW make for a strange pair.

WSOR 4513 brings a short freight thru the sleepy little town of Wauzeka, WI in November of 2002. This was once part of the Milwaukee Road from Milwaukee to Prairie Du Chien

Four WSOR SD40-2's are looking and sounding great as they lead an extra grain train east through Bannockburn.

Crossing the Cal Sag Channel, the T004X and its matching set of WSOR SD40-2's head east across the old Santa Fe at Nerska/LeMoyne.

T004X, an extra grain train from Milwaukee to BRC's Clearing Yard, rolls through Pleasant Prairie, WI behind a quad of matching SD40-2's.

The Watco Business Train running with WSOR Equipment eases back into K&O Yaggy Yard after a round trip to Great Bend, KS and back to celebrate the opening of Bartlett Grain Company's new facility ... (more)

Yet another Santa Fe Depot is passed by the Watco Companies Business Train on its eastbound run back to the K&O Yaggy Yard near Hutchinson, after a run to the new Bartlett Grain Company elevator n... (more)

The Watco Companies Business Train passes another oil well along the rolling Kansas Landscape on the K&O Great Bend Sub.

Locomotive: WSOR 101

4-30-15
Raymond, KS

Two things in this photo typify a vast swath of profit generated by Watco online business: an oil well and a wheat field. The company and the railroad industry in general wouldn't be what it is t... (more)

The Watco Companies Business Train using Wisconsin & Southern equipment leaves the new 3 Million bushel facility which has just finished construction outside Great Bend, KS. The grain elevator is... (more)

The Watco Companies Business Train using WSOR equipment is headed by #101, their covered wagon EMD E9, is rolling under a Santa Fe steam locomotive coaling tower on the K&O Great Bend Sub. after w... (more)

The long out of service wye was restored to use for the sole purpose of turning the business train here today. I can imagine this was a somewhat stressful endeavor for those directly involved, bu... (more)

The 1910 former ATSF Depot and the original 1872 main in Great Bend gets a short visit from Watco Companies' Wisconsin & Southern business train on a run between Hutchinson and the Bend, entertain... (more)

OK, maybe you can take the zero in the middle out. It's not every day you get to shoot an E9 in Kansas. This one is clanking down the K&O Great Bend Sub. towards the town the line is named for w... (more)