WC 6652 and 6602 speed around the curve at Rugby Junction with train 46. The 6652 wore an untouched ATSF warbonnet scheme and kept its Santa Fe number for quite awhile when it first came to the WC... (more)

UP 6930 leads fast forty's 8046,8053 with 38 pigs and racks east through The Dalles at 7:11AM 2 of 2

Milw. 550 shuffles ore cars at Iron River. This trackage along with the unit and Milwaukee Road ore cars are all long gone. The Milwaukee Road H16-66's that worked Upper Michigan ore country last ... (more)

LS&I 1604 is coupled to a pair 40 foot newsprint service cars as it waits to shove them into the Kimberly-Clark Munising Plant. The 1604 was LS&I's last operable RS-3 and was maintained to operate... (more)

Soo 2225A,737,502C thunder westbound through Caffey with 94 cars on train 911. The crews preferred second generation hood units for leaders, but on this day 2225A was picked up at Trout Lake for a... (more)

BN had quite a few roster oddities in to deal with in the first few years. Some of the rarest were a small group of Ex NP Baldwin road units that had been re-engined with EMD 567's fairly early in... (more)

SP 6392 leads a Geep somewhere in CA in this slide from my collection, no photographer listed, no location and only the Kodak date stamp on the slide to go by. I'm guessing the location as the bui... (more)

BN 610, 676 along with three EMD hoods including a leased Frisco GP35 near Tacoma in this photo from my collection. Photo has been in my collection for years, photographer name is badly faded but ... (more)

My trip to the Pacific Northwest in 1979 was blessed with less than perfect weather that the area is know for. It even made me appreciate the weather back home in Upper Michigan. This shot has BN ... (more)

Michigan Northern started with a couple RS-3's and aquired an eclectic group of power over the years including more RS-3's, RS-2's, Baldwin RS-12's and even the pair of RF-16 Sharks. All those old... (more)

BN 824 with SLSF 702 and BN 4243 pass through a slow order with a 91 car westbound along the Columbia near Stevenson during the summer of 1979.

CNW 6704,6712,6702 have 105 loads on the roll at Partridge. This was the C628's last spring in ore service and they probably were the last Century's operating for a major RR in the US. A few had b... (more)

This Milwaukee Road Cab had been apparently bought by CNW to fix one of their units and was just sitting up on blocks at the North Green Bay Shop in the fall of 1985. My notes say it was either Mi... (more)

The Soo bought a few Alco RSC3's for light rail branches. They ran around in the wilds for awhile but it was determined that they would be better served in switching service closer to a shop and t... (more)

I never spent much time getting Milwaukee units in Upper Michigan, at least not until the Soo bought them. But I did manage to drag myself past the Alcos of the LS&I and CNW a couple of times. On ... (more)