The Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad operates a historic train line centered in Trego, Wisconsin on 26 miles of track, between Spooner, Wisconsin and Hayward, Wisconsin with the passenger service stopping at Springbrook, Wisconsin. It was founded on April 1, 1997."New Trego Train Depot Attracts Tourism"Northland News Center. Retrieved 2016-04-11. The line runs dinner trains, bed and breakfast trains, and scenic sight seeing tours."Rail treat: Wis. train offers dinner, bed & breakfast" Bloomington Pantagraph. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
Freight Operations
The Wisconsin great northern railroad has a switching contract with the Canadian national (CN) railroad to service LP and JOHNSON / FUTUREWOOD in Hayward Wisconsin. The Service is run 5 days a week from hayward-to-hayward jct. Freight operations also have online customers in Springbrook Wisconsin also.
Locomotives
LS&M #41 - GE 50-Ton Diesel Locomotive one of 3 50 tonner prototypes built in 1941 WGN #314 - Former Green Bay & Western Alco C424 Diesel Locomotive (privately owned) WGN #423 - Former Chicago & North Western EMD F7 WGN #600 - Former B&OCTRR EMD SW1 WGN #862 - Former Milwaukee Road EMD SW1 WGN #891 - Former Allis Chalmers plant switcher EMD SW1 WGN #1280 - Former American Can/Marathon Southern EMD SW600 WGN #1386 - Former TP EMD GP35M WGN #1387 - Former MP EMD GP35M WGN #1388 - Former TP EMD GP35M WGN #1950 - Former Great Northern EMD F7 WGN #1951 - Former Great Northern EMD F7 WGN #6006 - Former Algoma Central Railway SD40-2, used for freight WGN #8760 - Rebuilt 1949 Alco S2M CB&Q #9903 “Injun Joe” - Acquired along with the rest of the Mark Twain Zephyr consist in July 2020. Duluth & Northeastern 27 - Acquired April 2024
Passenger WGN #1 "Allen L. Vreeland" - Originally a Pullman 1914 business car built for the Santa Fe, the owners private car WGN #8 Budd RDC-1 Diesel Rail Car - Originally an RDC for the New York Central Railroad, currently out of service WGN #9 "Namekagon Dreams" - Originally a double bedroom buffet car for the Atlantic Coast Line, now a sleeper on the Bed & Breakfast Train WGN #10 "Pine Cavern" - Originally a Budd-built sleeping car for the Santa Fe, currently in service WGN #12 "Sleepy Hollow" - Originally a sleeper/lounge car for the Union Pacific, currently in service WGN #13 "Royal Palm" - Originally an 11-bedroom sleeping car for the CNO&TP, currently out of service WGN #14 Chapel Car - Originally a Long Island Railroad coach car, currently out of service WGN #15 "Cascade Falls" - Originally a Budd-built 50-seat coach for the CB&Q, used on the Dinner Train through March 2020/currently out of service WGN #24 Santa Car - Originally a railroad post office car for the Milwaukee Road, now used on the Santa Pizza Train WGN #26 "East Lexington" - Originally a 12-section and one drawing room car for Pullman, currently out of service WGN #27 - Originally a wide vision cupola caboose, currently out of service WGN #32 "Apostle Isle" - Originally an 80-seat coach for the Duluth and Northern Minnesota Railway, now a 64-seat diner, currently in service on sight seeing trains WGN #34 "Presque Isle" - Originally an 80-seat coach that was formerly used on Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway on Maintenance-of-way trains, now a 56-seat diner, currently out of service WGN #100 "Amnicon Falls" & "Manitou Falls" - Originally an articulated coach car on the Southern Pacific Railroad, currently contains 7 private dining rooms and is used on the Dinner Train WGN #112 "Richard F. Gilberg" - Originally a mail and express car for the Duluth & Iron Range Railway (D&IR), rebuilt by the WGNRR as a club car, currently out of regular service WLRY(Wisconsin line railway) #143 DM&IR Caboose - Originally Duluth & Iron Range Caboose #C-43 blt 1889, currently being resorted by the railroad and on display next to the Trego Depot (privately owned) WGN #200 Kitchen Car - Originally a Havelock CB&Q Baggage Car, converted to a kitchen car by the Columbia Star Dinner Train, currently out of service WGN #300 "Copper Falls" & "Morgan Falls" - Originally an articulated coach car on the Texas & New Orleans Railroad, currently contains 7 private dining rooms and is used on the Dinner Train WGN #316 "Madeline" - St. Louis Car Company designed this as Southern Traction Car #315 in 1913, occasionally used for Sightseeing trains, currently out of service WGN #500 - "Effie Dean" - Tavern-Lounge in the Mark Twain Zephyr consist. WGN #506 "Becky Thatcher" - "Becky Thatcher" - Baggage Car in the Mark Twain Zephyr consist. WGN #551 "Huckleberry Finn" - Dining Car in the Mark Twain Zephyr consist. Ex-#551 - Former Roseville Crossing Car - Originally a coach car constructed in 1948 for the Milwaukee Road, acquired by the WGNRR in 2021 and currently out of service WGN #573 "Tom Sawyer" - Observation-Lounge Car in the Mark Twain Zephyr consist. WGN #1341 "Willow Falls" - Originally a dining car for the Canadian National, now a new kitchen/dining car that debuted in 2022 on the Bed & Breakfast and Dinner Train WGN #2000 Namekagon Coach - Car built as part of the Namekagon Train which ran between the Twin Cities and Ashland, currently out of service and parked in the Spooner, Wisconsin yard WGN #2004 - Originally a 24-section car built in 1954 for the Canadian National, currently out of service WGN #3003 "Aristocrat" - Originally a tavern lounge for the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad, used on the Bed & Breakfast and Dinner Trains WGN #6226 - Originally a 52-seat coach built for the Seaboard Air Line, moved to the Wisconsin Great Northern in 2014, currently out of service WGN #10674 - Originally a Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Coach car, featured in the movie In the Heat of the Night, currently out of service awaiting restoration WGN #39972 - Originally a Santa Fe Hi-Level Lounge and Amtrak Pacific Parlour Car, currently used on the railroad's Wine & Cheese Train Former Pearl Lake Engine & 2 Cabooses (acquired February 2021 and awaiting restoration) "Winette" / "Captain Hook" - Originally a Pullman business car built in 1930 built for W.R. Reynolds of the Reading Transit & Light Company, currently out of service awaiting restoration (privately owned) Former C&NW Baggage Car - constructed in the 1920s or 1930s and used for many decades along the various lines of the C&NW in the central United States Former M&StL Doodlebug Former Alfred E. Perlman private car "Destroyer of Locomotives" built in 1923.14
Freight Flat Car WGN #250578 Flat Car WGN #985353 Two Log cars
Utility Former Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway crane X-7 & Boom Car #W6331. WGN #1114 Power Car - Originally a baggage car for the Milwaukee Road, currently used as a power car for most passenger trains at the Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad WGN #421 "Bear's Den" - Originally a 14-section Touralux sleeping car for the Milwaukee Road, was used by the WGNRR as a crew car, currently out of service WGN #432 - Originally a Milwaukee Road RPO-Express car for the Olympian Hiawatha in early 1947, currently out of service
References
External links
https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/wisconsin-great-northern-acquires-steam-locomotive/