Watco, a transportation and logistics company based in Pittsburg, Kans., recently reported the opening of subsidiary Wisconsin & Southern’s (WSOR) newest locomotive shop and the upcoming launch of a $1.9 million warehouse at Port Birmingham (Ala.), to be served by subsidiary Birmingham Terminal Railway (BHRR).
One of the oldest railroad bridges in Wisconsin, a more-than-century-old, 2,200-foot timber structure spanning the Wisconsin River at Spring Green on the Wisconsin & Southern Railroad’s (WSOR) Prairie Subdivision, has undergone a a major improvement project. WSOR, a Watco Cos.subsidiary, and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) collaborated on the project.
Pittsburgh, Kan.-based Watco Transportation Services, LLC has announced it is acquiring what it calls “controlling ownership” of Milwaukee-based Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Co. (WSOR). Watco’s acquisition adds Wisconsin’s second-largest railroad to it stable of short line and regional properties.
