Canadian Pacific Railway Office - Portage WI
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N 43° 32.817 W 089° 28.036
16T E 300686 N 4824513
The Canadian Pacific Railway Office in Portage WI
Waymark Code: WMRAPB
Location: Wisconsin, United States
Date Posted: 06/01/2016
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The Canadian Pacific Railway Office in Portage WI was formerly a passenger depot in Portage. It had been remodeled and now is a crew change depot. Amtrak depot is a small brick building next to this depot. First rime I saw Canadian Pacific engines.
Portage is an Amtrak intercity train station in Portage, Wisconsin, served by Amtrak's daily Empire Builder service. The depot is a small square brick structure constructed during the Amtrak era, that is located near a Canadian Pacific Railway office (which occupies what was formerly the Portage passenger depot.) There are no station staff in Portage. Beginning in October 2011 Lamers Bus Lines began offering a daily stop at the station, with service between Madison and Wausau.[2]
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it is hard to keep up with railroad mergers!
The company acquired two American lines in 2009: the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad and the Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad. The trackage of the ICE was at one time part of CP subsidiary Soo Line and predecessor line The Milwaukee Road. The combined DME/ICE system spanned North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Iowa, as well as two short stretches into two other states, which included a line to Kansas City, Missouri, and a line to Chicago, Illinois, and regulatory approval to build a line into the Powder River Basin of Wyoming..
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