Slinger, Wisconsin — CN / Wisconsin & Southern junction

The operator describes the scene exactly: this railcam "shows the junction between Canadian National and Wisconsin & Southern at Slinger, Wisconsin. Train movements include Canadian National trains operating between Waukesha, WI and Neenah, WI as well as Wisconsin & Southern train operating between Horicon, WI and Milwaukee, WI."

The geography behind that sentence is worth knowing. Slinger sits at milepost 122.6 of CN's Waukesha Subdivision, a former Wisconsin Central line CN acquired in 2001. The Wisconsin & Southern — a Watco regional — has no continuous track of its own between its two divisions; as Wikipedia records, "trackage rights over a short section of Canadian National's Waukesha Subdivision from Waukesha to Slinger provide a link between the two divisions." Slinger is where those rights begin. The physical car interchange between the two railroads happens further south, at Ackerville.

The camera sits at the village's old depot, home to the Schleisingerville to Slinger Historical Museum, with the Great Lakes Central Model Railroad Club operating a layout in the basement.