The Tomahawk Railway is the

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employed by

Genesee & Wyoming Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W) is an American short line railroad holding company, that owns or maintains an interest in 122 railroads in the United States, Canada, Belgium, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom and formerly Australia. It operates ...

to operate of

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in northern

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.Tomahawk Railway

History

The Tomahawk Railway, currently owned by

has roots dating back to 1891, when the founder, William H. Bradley, organized the Wisconsin & Chippewa Railroad. In 1894, Bradley organized the Marinette, Tomahawk & Western Railway Company, then merged the W&C into the M.T. & W. in 1898. The main purpose of the railroad was to serve the timber and paper mills in the area at that time with its connection to the world via the Milwaukee Road and Soo Line. During the 1960s, the MT&W Railroad made daily runs to Kings Dam, and an occasional run to the boat factory located where the Harley-Davidson Plant is located today. By the late 1970s, the MT&W stopped providing service to Kings Dam and used the tracks there to store boxcars. It continued to provide service to the Owens-Illinois paper mill. In 2005, Genesee & Wyoming bought the railway and renamed it the Tomahawk Railway.

Currently

Currently the Tomahawk Railway operates six miles of track, providing daily service to the pulpboard mill at Wisconsin Dam, owned by

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, as well as its own 105,000-square-foot warehouse located in Tomahawk. The TRomahawk Railway handles over eight thousand carloads annually, consisting of coal, chemicals, scrap paper, woodpulp and pulpwood inbound, as well as pulpboard outbound from Wisconsin Dam to its connection with Fox Valley & Lake Superior Railroad at Tomahawk.

Roster

*1583 (Ex-83)

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*1587 (Ex-87)

References

External links

Tomahawk Railway official webpage - Genesee and Wyoming website
{{Wisconsin railroads Transportation in Lincoln County, Wisconsin Wisconsin railroads Railway companies established in 2005 2005 establishments in Wisconsin