WF&P Logo Flood of 1982

December 6,1982 record of 42 feet. The '82 flood stayed at the record height for three weeks because the Mississippi River was full and wouldn't allow the water to recede. December '82 was unexpected and on top of that, winter was about to set in.

Main Carbarn looking towards its being newly enlarged to having 5 tracks from 4 in the main section.  Along with this is the newly constructed 3 track south annex.

The # 171 and # 180 had just been repurchased from the Carlisle Schade Estate that summer. 

Old (1945) stalwart # 41 soldiers on. 

Main Title gives it an
UNABASHED Y-U-K !!! 
Looking west from Grand Avenue. 

Looking east from Grand Avenue.  Station was on the right out of photo fairly near the switch with the red target.

The fuel tank had pulled out of the ground and floated around the water tank and set down on top of the switch ties for the old crossover switch. 

Starting from the road going east, you had the water tower, fuel tank and the MOW tool shed (used to store oil and gasoline cans at that time).  All three were on the same side of the tracks, next to each other.

Brown Road MOW shelter, which had been placed in the yard across the tracks from the water tower, floated away crossing Grand Avenue and toppled towards Hamilton Creek.

This was its first excursion across the road.  In 1993, the Tool Shed repeated the trip across the road.  Since then, Dale chained the shed to a tree because he didn't want to chase it down again.  Years ago when he rebuilt the base of the shed and built the wood deck. He added some eye bolts at each corner for the sole purpose of chaining the building so it wouldn't float off in a flood.  Looks like it worked since it only moved a few feet in 2008.  The wood deck also has eye bolts for the same purpose.

Boxcar 51982 (May 1982) looks a bit forlorn on Carbarn Track One. 

Across the track sits the two track Quonset enginehouse originally built by V.A. Schmidt.

SW-11 # 802, with her original Clarence Poeling livery, is facing EB on the rear side of Carbarn Track One.
Water logged and mud encrusted Engine 400.
The "Mudsville" Shop with Engine 171, the 300's tender and Engine 400.

A Side View of the description from Photo # 8.

Engine 300 was not in the flood.  It had been moved to Pat Craven's house in November, and had been disassembled for a major rebuilding.  It did not get back together until about 1990.

Locomotive 180.

It was operational before the Flood.  It had operated in 1982 shortly after we purchased it.

The way Engine 171 "used to look" (minus mud) before her rebuild in 1989. 

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