Editing Wyeville, Wisconsin (section)

==History==
The [[West Wisconsin Railway]] was authorized in 1876 to build from St. Paul, Minnesota through to reach the [[Chicago and North Western Railway]] at [[Elroy, Wisconsin]].<ref name="CNWYEST">{{cite book|title=Yesterday and Today: A History of the Chicago and North Western Railway System|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924032484572|year=1910|publisher=Winship Company, Printers|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924032484572/page/n98 77]–}}</ref> This railroad became the [[Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway]] ("The Omaha Road") in 1880. At this location, a branch rail line was constructed eastward to [[Necedah, Wisconsin|Necedah]]. The location originally was named '''"Necedah Junction"'''. The local post office was called '''Wyeville''' when established in 1890 and the first postmaster was Charles Brooks.<ref name="Company1892">{{cite book|author=New England Railway Publishing Company|title=Pathfinder Shipping and Mailing Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TxspAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP635|year=1892|publisher=New England Railway Publishing Company|pages=635–}}</ref><ref name="Callary2016">{{cite book|author=Edward Callary|title=Place Names of Wisconsin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XqwGkAEACAAJ|year=2016|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-30964-0}} Note: re-ref to Stennett book, and Callary cites Stennett as "usually quite reliable in these matters."</ref> The name Wyeville is documented as a variation of "Wythe", a county in Virginia.<ref name="CNWPLACE">{{cite book|author=Stennett, W.H. (an officer with Chicago and North Western Railway Company for more than 34 years)|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://archive.org/details/originofplacenam00sten|year=1908|edition=2nd|page=[https://archive.org/details/originofplacenam00sten/page/141 141]|publisher=Chicago }}</ref> Eventually the name "Necedah Junction" was dropped in 1911 and the community was called the same name as the post office.

The railway junction became a crossing in 1911 for the lines of the [[Chicago and North Western Railway]] and its Omaha Road subsidiary.<ref name="books.google.com">{{cite book|title=Railway Track and Structures: RT & S.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tBhHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA294|year=1912|publisher=Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation|pages=294–}}</ref>  The Milwaukee, Sparta, and Northwestern Railroad, a subsidiary of the [[Chicago and North Western Railway]], began the "Air Line" or "Adams Cutoff" from [[Adams, Wisconsin]] towards [[Sparta, Wisconsin]] in 1910.<ref name="MONROE">{{cite book|title=History of Monroe County, Wisconsin: Past and Present Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=21w0AQAAMAAJ|year=1912|publisher=Unigraphic}}</ref> This railroad used the line from Necedah to Wyeville as part of this new route. A true [[railroad wye]] was built at the railroad crossover, along with an [[interlocking tower]] and railroad depot.<ref name="books.google.com"/>

Until 1963, passengers of [[Twin Cities 400]] and the [[Rochester 400]] changed trains there, as it was a scheduled transfer point for the two streamliners.<ref>''Chicago and Northwestern Railway Timetable, 1962''.</ref><ref>{{Scribbins-400-2008}} pp. 81, 98 (photograph of transfers), 203-06 (discontinuance).</ref><ref>Official Guide of Railways Feb. 1961 Chicago and North Western Railway Pg. 661 Table 1</ref>