This old section of Milwaukee Railroad track is located just north of downtown La Crosse. Hard to imagine now but this railway was the main route used by Milwaukee Railroad passenger trains in and out of downtown La Crosse for 53 years, from 1874 to 1927. I find it interesting to think of all the passengers who once traveled over this spot on their way to or from Milwaukee, Chicago, St. Paul, etc., and the big steam powered, smoke belching locomotives leading the way. Fifty-three years of daily trains over this spot is a lot of trains. Now long gone but, wait, is that a lonesome whistle I hear?
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Kinda makes 53 years sound like not a long time.
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