WAUKESHA COUNTY — It was a lousy evening for one hunter in Waukesha County. Dan Nowak says he was stranded on the road for roughly three-and-a-half hours Friday, November 17th because of a train stopped in its tracks.
Well, it’s not the first time something like this has happened. I remember back in the 80’s when the Susquehanna began running again over long disused (but recently relaid) trackage in northern New Jersey. There were some derailments blocking one-road exits of some housing developments but luckily aside from the hassle of being trapped (which I’m not unsympathetic to, by any means) no-one suffered any ill-effects.
A dead-end road across the tracks? If it’s a hunting area it is in the boonies, after all.
“Need to pee?” C’mon, he’s a man. The whole world is his bathroom!
Thats the middle of Vernon siding just West (North) of Mukwonago. I had my first wife (fiance) out there a few times. When the trains are there it was a good spot to get naked without being interrupted. 4 hours would have been very cool !!
What the Streator connection is what caused Domino’s pizza to leave this town. They got tired of whenever Conrail and Santa Fe would switch trains they would have an influx of orders for delivery all of them behind a set of tracks that blocked all acces to them. My husband says one night Dominos back when it was there in 30 or free had to give away 70 pizzas to one trailer park alone.
The County Rd 600E bridge by the NS(NYC) team track has been there a while. Must have been in the era when they still had clay pipe refractories still working down there south of Iowa Junction.
That bridge was put in however the road was never connected onto it on the south side of it until the mid 90’s why the Highway dept of the state never saw it as a problem.
WAUKESHA COUNTY — It was a lousy evening for one hunter in Waukesha County. Dan Nowak says he was stranded on the road for roughly three-and-a-half hours Friday, November 17th because of a train stopped in its tracks.
Nah, the real reason for going hunting is the pleasure of attacking a huge cholesterol-laden breakfast at the nearest diner with the rest of the guys! Pancakes, bacon, sausage, home fries or hash browns, buttered toast, real “heart attack on a plate” stuff.
I read that in “Field and Stream” years ago, so it must be true!
In Waukesha County a good portion of the roads are put in and designed by developers as stub ends first so they can walk potential clients around to look at future lots, then when they have enough interest they subdivide complete the stub end and start to sell. Actually, most states do it that way. The City or County then decides who will own and maintain the road depending on where it lies on a map. Some of the local police departments in Waukesha county have been disbanded as cost inefficent in an attempt to save on property taxes and the County Sherriff now patrols wider areas of the county. Some of the small local Fire Departments have either flipped to volunteer or have been disbanded as well. Some of the “future development” projects of the stub end roads fall apart but the road and railroad crossing remain.
Other stub end roads are put in so farmers can move their equipment across the tracks at opportune areas and then the hunters use them for hunting in the fall.
There are road crossings and there are ROAD CROSSINGS.
A dirt path across the tracks going to a undeveloped ‘field’ is not one that the carriers worry about blocking. If the siding was going to be used to STORE cars they crossing would get cut. For a train meet or for a train going HOS and awaiting a recrew, not so much.