Sturtevant

    Sturtevant module seen from the public side
    Sturtevant track plan, top view
    Track plan
    STURTEVANT station sign
    • Builder: Keith Kohlmann
    • Sturtevant, WI
    • Built ~2010
    • Atlas Code 55 Track
    • 5 ft (1 Module)
    Milwaukee Road F unit 95-A under the Sturtevant depot sign on the Modutrak Sturtevant module

    Sturtevant is a single five-foot module showing a junction town on the double-track main.

    Milwaukee Road depot at Sturtevant, Wisconsin, in 1950
    The Milwaukee Road depot at Sturtevant, Wis., July 6, 1950. Photo by Don Ross.

    The prototype is the Milwaukee Road at Sturtevant, Wisconsin, 61.8 miles from Chicago on the Chicago–Milwaukee main. The village grew up where the Western Union Railroad crossed the main, and it went by Western Union Junction and Corliss before it became Sturtevant in 1923, when the B. F. Sturtevant Company opened a plant there (Sturtevant, Wisconsin). Trains for Kansas City turned west here onto the Racine & Southwestern line, and a main-line coaling tower stood just north of the station (Don’s Rail Photos).

    Amtrak used the 1901 depot until August 2006, when a new station opened about a mile north, just south of the Highway 20 underpass, and the old depot was moved to Caledonia in 2009.

    Water tower and the Olympian Hiawatha at sunset on the Modutrak Sturtevant module
    Sturtevant depot, platform shelter and gravel lot with a passenger train on the module
    The Sturtevant depot, platform shelter and gravel lot. Keith did a lot of work to improve the GC Laser kit.
    Water tower, branch track and coaling tower on the Sturtevant module
    The junction end of Sturtevant: the water tower, the branch curving in from the back and the coaling tower.
    Coaling tower on the Sturtevant module under a summer sky
    Coaling tower on the Modutrak Sturtevant module
    Olympian Hiawatha passing the coaling tower on the Modutrak Sturtevant module
    Caboose and water tower on the Modutrak Sturtevant module
    Train blurs past the Sturtevant depot as the agent waves on the Modutrak Sturtevant module
    Scene on the Modutrak Sturtevant module
    Scene on the Modutrak Sturtevant module
    Switcher at the Sturtevant depot with an EJ&E gondola on the Modutrak Sturtevant module
    Behind the scenes: Modutrak modules on sawhorses outdoors with a camera on a tripod

    Sources: Milwaukee Road Milwaukee Division employee timetable No. 28, February 2, 1947; “Centralized Traffic Control on the Milwaukee,” Railway Signaling, April 1943; Don’s Rail Photos, Milwaukee Road stations and towers; Great American Stations: Sturtevant, WI; Sturtevant, Wisconsin; Sturtevant station. Module photos: Keith Kohlmann. Track plan: Modutrak.