Very interesting to see the bridge to nowhere.

Loved this video! I model the FRV so this is very much appreciated. Keep em coming!

@killerbee6310

Күн бұрын

Will do !!!

Very cool, Brian. Your access to the Val Maps, Track Charts, and Spot Books make these videos PURE GOLD.

@killerbee6310

2 ай бұрын

Hey thanks Andy. Finally opening up the vault.

This is a really neat video Brian. Thanks for putting it together.

@killerbee6310

Ай бұрын

Thanks Brian !!

Nice piece of railroad archaeology. Manitowoc and Two Rivers are charming towns. My wife and I always stop at the Waverly Inn when passing through. Next time I'll try to walk some of the tracks you explored.

@killerbee6310

Ай бұрын

It is fun trying to find little traces here and there of the line. I literally caught the destruction of some of it happening in real time.

I allso love are local railroad history to I live right by this line to you came very close to where I live ---milwaukee lake shore and western railroad built this line in 1874 so many businesses it served for so long --so sad it like this now very great video you did thank you sir

@killerbee6310

Ай бұрын

Thank you. Yes, sad to see it today - almost wish all traces of it were gone.

Drove up here and stayed at a State Park while in the Navy, Great Lakes Ill. Great memories thanks. New Sub.

@killerbee6310

2 ай бұрын

Well thank you for the comments and subbing. I have more footage to post.

Good stuff! Well done.

@killerbee6310

2 ай бұрын

Thank you and appreciate you watching and commenting

Thank you Brian for doing this! What an awesome look at what once was and still is. You're doing an awesome job with all your videos!

@killerbee6310

2 ай бұрын

Thanks Mike. I appreciate your time !! Lots of more ideas - just need the time (says the retired guy-LOL)

Such rich history in Manitowoc. I rode the car ferry across Lake Michigan many times and watched them unload rail cars. Wish you would do a video on the old rail yard at the dock and what the tracks look like now.

@killerbee6310

2 ай бұрын

Well, I am always open to more ideas, so thank you.

Probably 15 or 20 years ago got to see some of this on a real rainy day but you brought out some great details. That does look like some intense industrial tracking so thank you for checking it out. It seems like it was last used perhaps in the mid-1990s and maybe didn't even see FRVR service. The Milwaukee Journal recently had an article about how many of the buildings have been demolished from the industries that moved out. I'm sure people are trying to figure out how to turn it into condos andyacht clubs

@killerbee6310

2 ай бұрын

Yes, a lot of times the industry leaves the railroad.

Loved seeing this again. grew up in T.R. and Manty I remember these lines as active . the one spur was from C Riess coal (now seagull marina) worked in the Mirro building that the tracks disappear in . where it goes off thru the gate before the bridge , was Koss lumber yard

@killerbee6310

Ай бұрын

LOL-you are the second comment that referred to Manitowoc as Manty. That is a new one on me. Thanks !!

I was trying to follow along on google maps. Quite neat

@killerbee6310

Ай бұрын

Thanks. I considered using Google maps in the video but didn't want to mess with copyright issues.

it used to run to Mirro & Hamilton's back in the day. I used to fish under & on the bridge.

@killerbee6310

Ай бұрын

Appreciate the comments - thank you !!

Very cool... some of the old cnw heads that i worked with talked about working the airline and manitowoc subs back then. They mentioned the infamous runaway switch engine that ended up in the river, buried in mud up there.

@killerbee6310

2 ай бұрын

I noticed some articles on it too. Urban legend has it it was sabotage.

It's really a shame how much industry that area has lost. I grew up not too far from there, outside of Green Bay, and not far from the old C & NW lakeshore route from Manitowoc to Green Bay. Our house was on a hill, close enough that you could see the trans running from my bedroom window. My recollection is that it was a very busy line back in the 60's and 70's, esp. when there were still passenger trains. For those who aren't familiar now that line is a bike trail for most of the route between GB and Manty. Also a shame...

@killerbee6310

Ай бұрын

Understood completely. My wife is from Denmark. Thanks for watching and commenting.

After you cross the swing bridge the rails also went along the river past Metalware and the vets park boat launch. Just past the boat launch there are rails in the woods.

@killerbee6310

2 ай бұрын

Cool - I will be interested in checking that out next visit - thank you.

Nice little flashback Lived in TR about 20 years ago, and my daughter and I did pretty much the same exploration. I believe there was more track exposed at the time though, but the bridge still looks the same. We lived a bit upstream on the West Twin River and worked at Burger Boat in Manitowoc.

@killerbee6310

Ай бұрын

No doubt there was more exposed. I missed by about two weeks seeing additional track - where the guy was doing the construction.

Great video

@killerbee6310

2 ай бұрын

Thank you - glad to get feedback. I never know what people will think.

I took a trip in I think1954 when I was 3 years old on the CN&W / Pere Marquette Railway from Lake Forest Illinois to Marquette Michigan I think the engines were switched in Green Bay. We were in a sleeper car. I think a year later we took Pullman service to Gulf port Mississippi with a transfer between trains in Memphis TN. Keep up the good reporting.

@killerbee6310

Ай бұрын

Thank you for the encouragement. More to come.

Probably brought cement to the former Rader ready mix that used to be close.

Thank you for this journey along the former Chicago & North Western Railroad's Two Rivers, Wisconsin branch line. I found this video interesting. It reminded me that in the late 1970s and early 1980s that I knew a man who had a model railroad that he called the Two Rivers & Antigo Railroad. The railroad was based on an imaginary C&NW line from Two Rivers, Wisconsin to Antigo, Wisconsin. He had in mind the idea that if the railroad ever went out of business, the company could become a rail car Leasor whose reporting marks would be TRAX. I want to say that the man's surname was Traxel.

@killerbee6310

2 ай бұрын

Funny - he had it all figured out !!

The railroad describing that line as "inactive" is like Monty Python describing a parrot as "resting".

@killerbee6310

11 күн бұрын

I recall it was nailed to the perch?

@beeble2003

11 күн бұрын

@@killerbee6310 That's the one. Beautiful plumage, though

@killerbee6310

10 күн бұрын

@@beeble2003 The Norwegian Blue !!

I'm surprised the rails haven't been taken out.

@killerbee6310

Ай бұрын

There is a strategic reason

THink its safe to say,this line isn't coming back.Sad!

@killerbee6310

2 ай бұрын

Yep, that is a good assumption. Two Rivers wants the corridor for development.

You missed the bridge across the Little Manitowoc River, I have various photos of the bridge and a video of paddling under it. Would you like to see them?

@killerbee6310

2 күн бұрын

Crap - you are correct. The bridge escaped me - just looked on at it on GoogleEarth. Oh well - appreciate knowing about it. That pretty much happens most videos - you are made aware of your omissions and wish you could post a revised video with all the corrections, additions, etc.

Love to see more on some former cnw and milw rd tracks that the WC had and eventually pulled up or are still in the area i worked for the WC and CN i know most of the active tracks that are still used

@killerbee6310

2 ай бұрын

Am thinking of doing a Green Bay area video

Used to be a lumber yard on the right. Koss Lumber. when your children love & marry, build their homes with cash & carry. Koss lumber

Do you own those maps and guides? If so I would like a copy of them I'm new to the area and would like to know more of it's rail history

@killerbee6310

2 ай бұрын

I sent you a Facebook friend request a few days ago....

Nice. Wesconsin? Lol. We say Wisconsin who live here.

@killerbee6310

2 ай бұрын

LOL-sorry. I used to obsess over every little inflection and pronunciation and pause, trying to get the narration perfect. It took forever to get a video out and built up a lot of stress when making them. I finally decided I'd just do the narration and unless I made a major gaff, that would be it. But it is true - you outed me, I am a native Troll then a FIP.

@swedishlutheran

2 ай бұрын

It's an awesome video and well done. You sounded like my California friends when they visit and say Wisconsin. Cracked me up. I love your video. ❤

Wish you had spent some time discussing the industries served by the railroad. I had a girlfriend in College who's father owned a ship building industry in Monotowoc and lived in two rivers. I would have liked to see those site's as well. Very interesting however

@killerbee6310

2 ай бұрын

It's a balancing act how long to make the videos. I try to keep them to 5 minutes so I don't lose the audience. I usually am at 15 minutes after the first edit, and end up cutting back to ten or so.

@FlyingForFunTrecanair

10 күн бұрын

@@killerbee6310 Your content is interesting and you would not loose much of the audience with a longer film. Another option is to take all those chopped off bits of film and make another. I subscribed last night!

Here's a video on the Little Manitowoc going under that RR bridge: kzread.info/dash/bejne/jH6pmteSgcu1mrA.html Have some photo's too

@killerbee6310

2 күн бұрын

Dang - feel bad for missing it. Thanks for the info !!

Very well done. Sad that our country would rather support trucking vs railroads. This is evidence.

@killerbee6310

2 ай бұрын

Thank you. I think there is blame to go all around.