Visit to Madison

I happened to be in Madison, Wisc. for the day, so here a couple of views of railroad preservation.

The Milwaukee Road station is now a bicycle store. The platform area has been fenced off and is used for bicycle storage. Madison almost appears to have more bicycles than people.

Next to the station, on a section of disconnected track, sit a Milwaukee Road locomotive and four streamlined passenger cars.

(L) One from the NYC, and two (R) lettered for MTA, but probably also NYC. These are being used as offices by investment bankers and so on.

And the open platform obs car "Camp Randall." The sign says it's available for lease!

Finally, I thought this switch was mildly interesting. It leads into a coal-fired power plant near the middle of town. Originally the switch would have been located in the middle of an intersection, so the rails were extended out about 50' to put the mechanism on open ground.