First generation EMD power dominated BN operations in Iron Range country in the early years of the merger. Midnight on a nice summer July evening witnesses BN 6111, SD9, BN f7B 779, an NW2 and a s... (more)

CNW 6867 leads a freight across Pike Creek near Somers, WI in January of 1989. The train is on CNW's New Line.

CN 1501 track evaluation car made from an RDC-1 slows to a stop in front of the former Soo Line depot (now a museum) at Colfax, WI. holding briefly in the siding, it will continue east to Chippewa... (more)

CN 3818 leads a stack train south out of Pokegama Yard passing under the BNSF at Saunders as it starts its trip to Chicago. This interchange sees traffic from all four major carriers as both CP an... (more)

BN 6114 shows off its "Y" front end, a feature of the GN Big Sky Blue scheme. 100 units lower, BN 6014, an SD7, is in the early 60s simplified scheme. Both are at the roundhouse at Belkn... (more)

Here is a view of the shorthand, rear of BN 1540, coupled to a vintage tank car used in maintenance service to carry water. They are enjoying light snow at the former GN Belknap Yard in Superior t... (more)

BN 1540, a former GN GP7 that made it to the merger in its original colors, hangs out in light snow at Belknap Yard in Superior, WI. The former GN yard was an important terminal for BN and is stil... (more)

The SD7/SD9 fleet of the Great Northern which dominated the Missable Division is being invaded by newer EMD SDs in the form of SD40s & 40-2s by 1975. BN 6009 is one of several seen at the Belknap ... (more)

Back in 1975 the BN was still switching ore cars and making dock shoves. Taconite was growing, but would be a while before the railroad converted dock loading to conveyors. BN 6115 and 6106 pair u... (more)

Amtrakā€™s Empire Builder quickly passes a westbound Chicago & North Western coal train at the end of double track on Canadian Pacific/Soo Lineā€™s former Milwaukee Road main line west of Milwauke... (more)

With a light dusting of snow on the ground, a trio of ex-UP SD60M's are on the point of the Wisconsin & Southern's Y302 job as it works the yard in Janesville, Wisconsin. The train is getting put ... (more)

The local on the Minneapolis Sub has reached Colfax on a bitterly cold but sunny morning. This stretch of weather was light on snow here but the temperature is stubbornly below zero. They are brin... (more)

Two new repaints power a Canadian Pacific hot shot westbound through Pewaukee, Wisconsin, at 2:30 p.m. on April 17 1993. One EMD SD40-2 each from CP and Soo Line show off the new paint scheme info... (more)

T004 is the first train over the WSOR Waukesha Sub after the storm that dumped about a foot of snow across much of Southern Wisconsin. Here we see the train blast through the plow line at North Li... (more)

A major winter storm dumped significant snowfall in many parts of the Upper Midwest on January 12th. In this frame, we see WAMX 6026 creating quite the scene as it bucks the drifts created by the ... (more)