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Posted by Gramp on Monday, June 10, 2024 10:41 PM

Drove through Columbus today. Workers were constructing new poured concrete platforms on both the depot side and other side of the tracks. 

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Posted by wjstix on Tuesday, June 18, 2024 10:40 AM

Gramp
CMStPnP

 

 
JayBee
BTW there is also a large VA Hospital at Tomah, WI. Another reason for a stop in Tomah.

 

Near Fort McCoy, spent a few National Guard Annual Trainings there.   Including one in mid-Feb spent almost the entire two weeks outdoors in a tent.....just a lovely place in the winter.

 

 

 

Back in the.60's I recall traveling I90/94 when long convoys would head to Fort McCoy for summer exercises. Would take miles and miles to get past them. 

 

 

When my father came back to America from Europe at the end of World War 2 (quite literally at the end - he arrived in New York Harbor on the Queen Mary on VJ Day), he didn't have enough "points" to be discharged yet, so he was stationed at then Camp McCoy until February 1946. 

 
Stix

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