I have found a site on the web that lists a lot of defunct companies in Wisconsin, including logging companies and railroads. The site lists the incorporation...
Group I have found a site on the web that lists a lot of defunct companies in Wisconsin, including logging companies and railroads. The site lists the...
Tim, The point I was trying to get across to people is that the State Historical Society(SHS) in Madison has the original incorporation papers for the...
Group Are the incorporation papers for lumber companies very useful? For instance do they give some indication of where the business was to be conducted? I ...
Hi, Just a quick question. Doesn't the STB (Surface Transportation Board) have a hand in handling rr abandonments as well? I'm not really sure. (I apologize...
Hi, Yes the STB does handle abandonments now. Previously it was the ICC.But the state also has input. And besides, I visit Wisconsin a lot more than I visit...
Hi, I am wondering how many state or county sponsored rail transit commissions there are in southern Wisconsin. These entities were set up after the collapse...
Hi, My name is Steve and I thought I'd introduce myself. Obviously a big railfan (and model railroader)I joined this group to find more info on the Brillion...
I remember the B&FJ having a big opening-day celebration with passenger excursions, but I recall that happening in the 1980s. Also I remember seeing...
At 4:51 PM +0000 2/10/04, steviesteve56 wrote: . ... ====================== Hi Steve... The Brillion & Forest Junction was created by Clint Jones and other ...
Sorry, it was Clint, not 'Chuck', Jones who co-operated Trans Northern. I would contact the late Gordon DeHaas' family for information on the B&FJ and...
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Since the Railroad.net changed its format, I have lost contact with someone who has the E-mail moniker of Grandpas Angel. If you read this forum, please get in...
howdy. i don't know why i saved your post for so long, but i would think that that area could've easily fallen into MILW's hands. there is an old h.c. book at...
Though I have never looked at it, I know for a fact that the KV&N's bankruptcy case file is down in the National Archives office in Chicago. If one wants to...
I've got a bit of info on the Pine River Valley and Stevens Point Railroad. The company started grading in 1875. The line was 3' gauge and laid with maple...
Group Didn't the KV&N go bankrupt and then was reorganized around the turn of the century as the Western Wisconsin Ry or some other name along those lines ...
glenn. thank you very much for that info. but this guy 'KBOB' was looking for info. my deal with the prv&stp rr is looking toward what it's aspirations were....
The Kickapoo Valley and Northern was sold at public auction in November 1889. The resulting railroad was the Wisconsin Western. In 1903, the Milwaukee Road...
I've checked my files on the PRV&SP, and I'm afraid I won't be much help. I've got a few pages of photcopied text from a history book on Richland County and a...
Terry and group glenn. thank you very much for that info. but this guy 'KBOB' was looking for info. my deal with the prv&stp rr is looking toward what it's ...
Don't know anything about the line out of Waupaca, but there was a trolley line that went to Kings. Could the right-of-way be part of that? If I recall...
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