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POM 9-2021
Same picture a last month but looking east. The BNSF engine was disconnected at this time.
POM 10-2021
Lots of power moving westward in-front of the Stevens Point Depot. Engines 3908, heritage engine 3914, 2164, 2196 and 2151.
POM 11-2021
This fall CN put a new bridge deck on a bridge just west of Stevens Point. Big operation to remove the old deck and put on a new precast concrete deck. Things were done fast to get the main line up and running again. Pretty impressive.
POM 12-2021
On Nov. 3rd of this year I took this picture of mostly CN track maintenece equipement ( with one old WC piece) parked next to Okray Potatos in Plover, WI.
POM 1-2022
Nov. 3rd of this year I took this picture of CN doing track repair in the rep-track area just east of the 2713 display. Using a vacuum truck and manual labor they worked a lot on the  switches. They worked in this area multiple times this summer.
POM 2-2022
This picture taken on Dec. 31,2021 in the Rip Track area just east of the 2713 train display. It shows CN workers unloading a wheel set.
POM 3-2022
This picture taken on Feb. 10,2022 in the Rip Track area just east of the 2713 train display. Rybak moved in with lots of heavy equipment to put new wheel sets on CN engines 9563 and 2991. I talked to a CN worker who said everything was delayed because the new wheel sets were late coming out of Chicago.
POM 4-2022
This picture taken on Feb. 10,2022 in the Rip Track area just east of the 2713 train display. The picture is connected to last months picture. I shows equipent getting in position to lift CN engine 9563.
POM 5-2022
This picture taken on May 6th. CN engines 8889 and 8858 headed west as they cross Park Steeet. Stevens Point water tower in background.
POM 6-2022
This picture taken on May 31. Loram machine No. LMIX-618 sits on the bridge  over Church St. just east of the Stevens Point Depot. The machine was grinding the tracks in the  Riptrack area.
POM 7-2022
This picture taken on July 5.it is taken looking southeast at the intersection of the CN tracks and Water St. just west fo the Stevens Point Depot. I'm guessing CN painted the sign on the sidewalk warning of danger at the crossing. In the background west bound CN engines No. 8904 and 2609 pull a full load of tanker cars.
POM 8-2022
This picture shows some of the damage vandals did to the engine cab. Five of the 6 windows in the cab were damaged to the point that three have to be replaced. They are to splintered to repair.The two seats in the engine cab were also badly damaged. One can be repaird and the other will have to be replaced. 
POM 9-2022
This picture shows some of the damage vandals did to the west door to the caboose. The screen door was also damaged and will need replacing. Because of the violent kicking of the doors it splintered the wood which makes them very hard to impossible to repair.
POM 10-2022
This summer CN continued to work on some of the railroad bridges just west of Stevens Point. they took out a bridge andreplaced it with a Box culvert and two metal culverts. Seems to me it would be hard to get the ballast to compact were the bridge use to be?
POM 11-2022
On Nov. 6th a back hoe with a claw type attachment cut up 3 tanker cars in the Rip Track area just east of the 2713 display. Usually they use cutting torches to cut up old rail cars. This is th first time I had seen this method. It was fun to watch.
POM 12-2022
On Dec. 6th saw this big CN work truck parked next to a CN container. The picture was taken just north of the Stevens Point Round House.
POM 1-2023
Engine 2713 and Caboose 158 decorated for Christmas
POM 2-2023
This picture taken on Jan. 4th, 2023. It looks SW from the intersection of Wayne St. and Welsby Ave. It's looking at the area on the north side of the tracks between the yard office and the round house. Lots of engines being stored here today. More that I normally see.
POM 3-2023
This picture is taken from Monroe St. looking west at the round house area. Lots of engine in the yard including 3960, 2846, 5407, 3020, 5441.
POM 4-2023
This pictures shows the roof over the train before the columns were bricked and the ceiling was put in. Each winter the roof gets that same snow pattern.
POM 5-2023
This pictures taken on March 6 of 2022. It shows a CN employee loading or unloading train wheel/axles in the Rip-track area east of the 2713 Display.
POM 6-2023
This pictures taken on May 11 of 2023. It shows a Herzog train (HZGX-19200) going north on the old "P-Line" as it crosses Tommy's Turnpike.
POM 7-2023
Here is a picture of the new windows installed on the north side of engine cab. Thanks to G & S Window for doing such a good job of making new ones and also fixing the caboose door. The fixed Caboose door has also bwen reinstaled.
POM 8-2023
Here is a picture of the new  seat for the engine cab. The old one was beyond repair so a new one was made. The club would like to thank Sue Kreske for donating time and material to reupholster the new seat cushion.
POM 9-2023
This pictures taken on Sept 5 of 2023 just east of the Stevens Point Depot. It shows CN engines 3864 and 3222 heading west pulling mostly coal cars.
POM 10-2023
This pictures taken on Sept 23 of 2023 just east of the Stevens Point Depot at CN milepost 249.  Vacuum truck was taking out ballast and the backhoe was replacing it with new. Why I don't know.
POM 11-2023
This pictures taken on Oct. 26 of 2023 just east of where the main line in Stevens Point crosses the Plover River. CN engines 2939 and 3020 are east bound with West Coast Engine WCE 902 in tow. I had see a WCE engine  in tow earlier in the summer going westbound. Not sure it was with the same engine. Looks like the WCE engine runs in Vancouver, BC.
POM 12-2023
Thiss is a closer picture of WCE 902 engine featured in the Novembers POM.
POM 1-2024
Picture taken this Decenber of the Trackmobile  pulling in a lumber car in the building to be worked on at the Steven Point Rip track area. 
POM 2-2024
Picture taken this Febuary just north of the round house in Stevens Point. The backhoe had an attachment that I never saw before.
POM 3-2024
A retro picture this month. This was taken in 2004 during construction of the roof over the train. 

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