The Wisconsin Bikeway between Kenosha and La Crosse includes the Sparta - Elroy trail, one of the early rail-trails the Midwest. In 1973 I took my bike with me on Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha (discontinued in 1979) to Tomah and then rode some very hilly roads and part of the rail-trail from there to Elroy. At Elroy I met up with a group that had ridden from La Crosse to celebrate La Crosse's Oktoberfest. I overnighted with them in a middle school gym at Elroy, and the next day I accompanied them back to La Crosse. I slept on a bench in the depot at La Crosse that night, and the following day I rode the Empire Builder back to Chicago, and the Broadway Limited home to Fort Wayne.
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Getting thrown out of railroad stations since 1979!
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