Wausau, WI: Preserved/C&NW Depot and FOXY/CN/Milwaukee Railyard

Depot: (Satellite)

Railyard: (Satellite)

Street View, Sep 2019

Brian D Strayer posted three photos with the comment: "I was in Wausau, Wisconsin recently and took time to take photos of the train depot. Many of you will remember that the image of the station was used for decades by Wausau Insurance in their advertising. Seven years after the Milwaukee Road ended passenger train service, the insurance company purchased the station and planned to move it to their corporate campus. The community pushed back and the station stayed in place with the local Boy Scout council as the tenant for 20 years. Wausau Insurance loved the station so much they built a replica for themselves. A distillery/cocktail lounge, named Timekeeper, now occupies the station and adjacent to the parking lot is a bar named the Hiawatha Lounge."

Mark Manz: Walthers made an HO Scale train station kit based on this building.

Jay Blanchett: Great setting. We were almost regulars at the Hiawatha Friday fish fry in the mid 90s. Visitors we took there raved about it. The iconic depot was very well-kept, and everyone knew it from the "60 Minutes" sponsorship spot.

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The C&NW went east/west through this area, but it is now mostly abandoned. The Milwaukee went north/south through town. They crossed at the south end of the Milwaukee railyard in Wausau Junction.

1955 Wausau Quad @ 48,000

FOXY took over 650 miles of the former CN track in Jan 2022. [wsaw] This is a view of the railyard while it was still owned by CN.

Street View, Sep 2019

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