Railroad Real Estate Filings

Per Wis. Stat. § 190.11, every real estate transfer or lease, deed of trust, mortgage or satisfaction made by any railroad corporation must be filed with the Office of the Commissioner of Railroads. The Office of the Commissioner of Railroads will record the date of filing and maintain the documents filed. There is no longer a per page fee for railroad filings. Electronic filing of documents is now required. All documents must be saved as a pdf file and uploaded to the following website Railroad Real Estate Search.

All real estate conveyances are available on this webpage. Real estate documents between 1857 and 1982 are located in volumes 1-52. Please use the Index. Documents post 1982 are located using the Search function in the following link, Railroad Real Estate Search.

To search archived real estate documents please refer to the Index to reference volumes 1-52 of the Secretary of State Railroad Mortgages, years 1857-1982. Find the links to the volumes below.

Volume 1	Volume 28
Volume 2	Volume 29
Volume 3	Volume 30
Volume 4	Volume 31
Volume 5	Volume 32
Volume 6	Volume 33
Volume 7	Volume 34
Volume 8	Volume 35
Volume 9	Volume 36
Volume 10	Volume 37
Volume 11	Volume 38
Volume 12	Volume 39
Volume 13	Volume 40
Volume 14	Volume 41
Volume 15	Volume 42
Volume 16	Volume 43
Volume 19	Volume 44
Volume 20	Volume 45
Volume 21	Volume 46
Volume 22	Volume 47
Volume 23	Volume 48
Volume 24	Volume 49
Volume 25	Volume 50
Volume 26	Volume 51
Volume 27	Volume 52