CB&Q 970 rests at Denver along with some real interesting power. Photo has been in my collection, no photographer listed on slide.

Soo 4408,750 ramble east with train #912 on Valentine's day 1980. The 4408 was destroyed in a head on collision near Gilchrist in the summer of 82.

An A-B-A set of Soo F's roll train 911 west at Garnet with 76 cars. FP7 2501A leads 503C and 212A on this cold morning. Sets like this were so common between Gladstone and Sault Ste. Marie in the ... (more)

An odd looking set of power rests at CN's Capreol facility in May 1987. SW 1371 is lashed up to 7105 and 9495. It might have been a little scary to get the call for this job.

WC 6650,AC 1753,1752 struggle east with 61 loads of Ladysmith and Tilden ore bound for Sault Ste. Marie. The power is pulling hard at this point and as the two FP9's went past I could smell the ho... (more)

Milw 197,186 speed 52 cars on an early morning eastbound past the small yard and station in Sparta.

Soo 212B and 502C get to work on making a pick up at Trout Lake on a westbound extra during the fall of 1979. New GP38-2's had been making inroads on the Soo F-unit fleet for a few years already a... (more)

Looking like something you might have seen in the 1950's, WC 1505 brings two ACR heavyweight business cars over the power canal bridge into Sault Ste. Marie, Mi. Apparently needed in Fond du Lac t... (more)

CNW 4249 at North Green Bay Shop awaiting work...you already can see the Penn Central and CR on the side of the long hood peeking through the yellow.

WC 5956,5334 pass through the greenery near the top of Byron Hill with a trainload of Auburn natural ore bound for interchange to the EJ&E. This was one of a number of trainloads of raw ore moved ... (more)

BN 5531, ATSF 8118, BN 5572,5109,7822 drop down Logan Hill with empties.

LS&I 1803 is waiting, probably in vain for a few defects to be corrected at Eagle Mills. The ex BN U30C's that LS&I had bought to rid itself of the Alco's were already either on the property or on... (more)

CNW 8602,8625 head a loaded ore train toward Escanaba. The wide cab GE's were not normally assigned to this service, but had brought an all rail train up from Chicago to load at Empire Mine and we... (more)

The LS&I's pair of U25C's and an RS3 at the Marquette yard in the spring of 1973. This was a common power set on the Hill Job at the time. Photo is in my collection and was taken by Russ Porter.

A call the previous evening had alerted us to this train being powered by a pair of F's. The F's had languished in storage most of the summer and were supposedly not to be ran again. Somehow this ... (more)