| CN local crosses Millview Dr. as it heads southwest via former joint MILW/SOO rails enroute back to the former SOO yard at Neenah, WI on 21 May '15. The defunct and partially demolished Fox Valley Energy Center (formerly Minergy Fox Valley Glass Aggregate Plant) looms in the background. Opened in Jan. '98, it has stood idle since 15 Jun. '13. The steel structure on the right used to carry steam pipes over the tracks from the energy center to the former P. H. Glatfelter Co. paper mill, which stood here for 132 years, the oldest part of the original mill was constructed in 1874. Glatfelter purchased the mill from Bergstrom Paper Co. in 1979. Bergstrom had purchased the mill, originally Winnebago Paper, in 1904. Glatfelter moved the jobs to Ohio in June 2006, the mill stood idle for about two years until it was torn down, demolition was completed in May 2009. These tracks were originally laid on a trestle over the water at the south end of Little Lake Butte des Morts. All of the earth under and to the north of these rails is landfill, deposited in the south end of the lake by the paper mills starting circa the 1950s. |