Reedsburg Rocket looking a lot like the MALPM...

            WAMX 3829 and WAMX 4172 are trundling through the rolling countryside between Waunakee and Dane with Wisconsin and Southern Train L467, the Madison to Baraboo turn. As spring fades to summer the corn is starting to make most of the last of brown parts of the farmed countryside look green finally. The duo have a big train on the headpin, a mix of cars for the industries in Sauk County that keep traffic levels on this line pretty high these days. Unfortunately what would have been a perfectly sunny evening has been dampened by some of the Canadian Wildfire Smoke haze that has plagued much of the northern part of the country this Spring - but I made the best of it.

When I was a kid growing up in Reedsburg in the 2000s and was a budding railfan, the town was usually served by a thrice-weekly WSOR local known as the MALPM - the Madison Area Local, "PM" Job - so called because it went on duty in the afternoon (compared to the MALAM in the mornings). The train usually left for Reedsburg Sundays, Tuesday, and Thursdays in mid afternoon with a combination of either GP38s or SD20s and got to Reedsburg by late evening when I could catch it just before sunset for a while in the summer, and after dark in the winter. 

The operating pattern has changed a few times over the last 15 or so years and so a regular Sunday afternoon Northbound out of Madison hasn't been as regular of things for a long time. But this summer with major rehab work ongoing on the Merrimac Bridge and the need for daytime work blocks, the turn from Madison to Baraboo known as L467 has been departing in late afternoon/early evening on Sundays, Tuesday, and Thursdays again - shades of the schedule of decades gone by. With track speeds lower and traffic up in Baraboo, Rock Springs, and Reedsburg, there's now a second local L867, that works those towns Monday-Friday and so this train will turn at Baraboo. But it's nice to have a train running on a warm summer afternoon headed north through Dane and Sauk Counties again. The bridge work I believe is scheduled to last into 2024, so this schedule likely will stick around for a while... and I hope to get another crack myself without that darn smoke haze around and a nice red and grey consist like this again.

Taken in: United States / Wisconsin / Village of Dane (show map)

Taken on: June 4, 2023

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