Loaded taconite train crosses the Wisconsin Southern at Crawford, south of Prairie du Chien. These SD60Ms were common thru the 90s on these heavy trains bound for Granite City. Scanned slide from ... (more)

A Conrail unit helps out of BN SD40 as they hustle down the Aurora Sub south of Lynxville. Scanned negative from October 1992.

The morning Chicago to St. Paul hotshot is less than 20 miles from the next crew change at LaCrosse. The train skirts the Mississippi River as they pass thru Genoa. The Genoa power plant is in the... (more)

The BNSF leased alot of junk power after the merger. The railroad needed alot of power to help thru the struggles they had moving freight. Some of the leasers were these ex-ATSF C30-7s that came f... (more)

Wisconsin Central train 45 heads north (westbound) through Hubertus, Wisconsin, on June 11, 1996, powered by a pair of WC’s F45s and a new Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW.

CPs 8WWA ballast train rumbles over the wooden Crawfish River bridge on a cold and windy spring afternoon. Todays train sports a trio of six-axle EMDs.

CPs 8WWA ballast train follows closely behind another freight train, seen here slicing through the rolling hills of central Wisconsin.

With 50-60 loads of ballast fresh from the pit in Waterloo, CPs 8WWA ballast train crawls over the Crawfish River with two rebuilt SD40s and a SD30C for power. The matching red pops alongside the ... (more)

CN 3303, a rebuilt AC44C6M, leads an intermodal train over the St. Croix River near Gordon, Wisconsin on the CN Superior Subdivision mainline heading southeast toward Ladysmith and beyond.

LTS72 departs Altoona with 20 empties destined for Hi-Crush's Valley sand plant.

L516 made quick work of a small one car pick up at New Richmond, tucking it in behind the power (normally they pick up on the rear of the train). This put them out at Cylon when the sun set, the s... (more)

Eastbound manifest, with SD45 6582 trailing 6652. Both units were ex ATSF.

CNW 4467 brings the Eden Turn thru West Bend, WI in March of 1988. The train is on the CNW Air Line. The FRVR would acquire this line later in the year. The WC took over in 1993 and abandoned the ... (more)

The well tuned Leslie horn atop the WAMX 4180 wails, as L355 makes track speed through Brodhead. The train has just gone through the first of ten crossings, all which are located within a 4000 foo... (more)

6000 horsepower drags an early Monroe turn up the hill into Orfordville on a gorgeous Spring day.