Tomahawk Railway
The Tomahawk Railway (TR) is an American Class 3 railroad company in the state of Wisconsin . The company, which is part of the Genesee and Wyoming Group, has its headquarters in the city of Tomahawk . The company operates a 6.4 km network of routes to supply the paper industry in Tomahawk. The main transport goods are paper, cellulose, coal and waste paper. The company has a connection to the Canadian National Railway .
history
The company was founded on October 4, 1894 as "Marinette, Tomahawk & Western Railway" (MTW). Operations on the 23-kilometer eastward Tomahawk – Harrison route opened on November 27, 1895. On July 1, 1898, Wisconsin and Chippewa Railway (W&C) was acquired. This expanded the route network to the west by 21.7 kilometers to Spirit Falls and north to Tomahawk Junction (later Bradley ). This route was only used to transport wood from the local forestry operations and was only operated in summer. It was only at the instigation of the Wisconsin Railroad Commission that the line was opened to public transport to supply the settlement. In 1903 operations on the route east of Spirit Falls ceased and logging in this area ended.
From 1900 to 1902, the MTW built a branch line from Antigo Junction to the south to McInness from the line to Harrison. Due to the low traffic and the poor financial situation of the company, the Grundy – McInness section was sold to Milwaukee Road in 1904 . The Tomahawk – Antigo section and to Harrison were leased to the newly founded Tomahawk & Eastern Railway. Since this type of operation was not satisfactory either, the lease contract was terminated in November 1919 and the line to Harrison was subsequently closed.
On November 16, 1912, the reorganization to "Marinette, Tomahawk & Western Railroad" took place. 1918 one stopped the passenger traffic. In 1919 the line to Spirit Falls and the Antigo-Grundy section were leased to the Tomahawk Land Company. This carried out operations on the western route until 1920 and on the eastern route until 1924. The route to Antigo and Grundy was finally closed in 1924 and the route to Spirit Falls in 1932.
Since then, the route network has only consisted of the Bradley-Tomahawk connection and the Jersey City-Wisconsin Dam (7.8 km) route, which was built later, and an industrial connection to Kings.
In 1992 the current company was founded by the Rail Management Corporation and the Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) and the railway was taken over from the previous owner Owens-Illinois Paper Mill. One of the reasons for this was to ensure delivery to the PCA plant in Tomahawk. In 1997 the Bradley-Tomahawk route was sold to Wisconsin Central , but the TR retained route usage rights. In 2005 the company came to Genesee and Wyoming through the takeover of RMC.
Vehicle fleet
In 2006 the fleet consisted of one EMD SW 1200 diesel locomotive and two EMD SW 1500s .
literature
- Edward A. Lewis: American Shortline Railway Guide . 5th edition. Kalmbach Publishing Co., Waukesha, WI 1996, ISBN 0-89024-290-9 .
- James W. Kerr: The Official Locomotive Roster & News Edition 2006 . DPA-LTA Enterprises Inc., St. David's, ON 2006, ISBN 0-919295-43-6 .
Web links
- Logging Railroads in Lincoln County
- Article on Tomahawk Railway at rrdepot.com
- Photos of the Tomahawk Railway