Equipment & Preservation
The Wisconsin & Calumet's motive power primarily consisted of early generation GM-EMD diesel-electric locomotives, including the GP7, GP9, and F7. Many of these locomotives originally belonged to the Milwaukee Road. Others, including the F units, were privately owned by an individual named Glen Monhart. WICT followed the (by then relatively unusual) practice of naming their locomotives. Several WICT locomotives were named after the counties the railroad served, such as Dane County, Rock County, Walworth County, etc.
WICT EMD FP7 #96A was later repainted and renumbered to WSOR #71A and currently operates on the Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad in Michigan and northern Wisconsin as their #600. Several other ex-WICT F-units are stored on ELS property at Wells, Michigan. WICT caboose #529 (ex-AT&SF) can be found at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in North Freedom.
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