WC 6655,4505,4009 are on the point of #34 departing Trout Lake with 69 cars on a late August evening. The days are growing shorter already in the Upper Peninsula and soon #34 will not be seen in d... (more)

A friendly engineer assigned to the Antoine Turn decided to unleash his set of C628's just as I was about to click the shutter on this beautiful November morning. The units had been idling for a f... (more)

The ex NP shop at Livingston served the new BN from merger date until some where around 1986 when it was closed and most remaining major work was moved to West Burlington. This shot in June of 87 ... (more)

Soo 726,703 arrive at Trout Lake with an extra from Marquette. The train is pulling around the Wye to set out its cars for trains 11 or 12 to forward to Sault Ste. Marie or Gladstone respectively.... (more)

Soo 761,739 with a cut of paper loads just behind the power head a short 40 car train 911 west. There is not a lot of daylight in Upper Michigan near the first day of winter and the thermometer wa... (more)

This clean SW1200 was working Gladstone Yard in the Fall of 1985. Most Soo SW's came without MU hook-ups so they ended up being hauled from yard to yard behind the road power on freights. No doubt... (more)

Most BAR units that I seen in my 1981 visit to Maine looked well maintained but this GP38 was in some pretty tired paint as it rested in the Northern Maine Junction shop area. A number of F3's and... (more)

With white flags flying in the cold winter air, AC 104 and 100 roll north near Searchmont with 80 cars.

Hot CPR Schiller Park-St. Luc run-through has detoured off it's usual path over CSX across Lower Michigan. Here it is blasting out of Trout Lake on the WC with ex QNSL 5410 leading 5526, 6044 and ... (more)

Soo 2408,4431 idle away the afternoon in St. Ignace waiting for the carferry Chief Wawatam to return from Mackinaw City. The yard in now a parking lot. The only surviving structures are the depot/... (more)

AC 1751, 1753 lead #2 through the snow a couple miles south of Heyden.

CNW had quite a group of GP35's assigned to it's western area. The ones with large fuel tanks and top mounted air tanks were real common on the lines that radiated out of Chadron NE. This eastboun... (more)

WC 6656,6523,6512 wander along with a 55 car ore load that originated at Tilden Mine. The pellets were bound for Geneva Steel in Utah. That's the shore of Lake Superior in the background and the t... (more)

After the first couple of winters WC always seemed to have DM&IR SD9's prowling the property. These were normally paying back hp hours for the numerous WC units that ran through to the mines on th... (more)

Riding high on the ore dock lead is the Dumper Job with 6715 and 1506. The Baldwin/EMD 6 axle hybrids were pretty much confined to yard duty by 1978 and 1506 would soon be retired. The Dumper Job ... (more)