CP 6576,6594 have 29 cars as they depart the CPR yard heading to the ACR yard with a transfer. The pair of Alcos on the switch job was not a normal situation. Normal power for this job was either ... (more)

Train 923 at Toronto powered by a fairly fresh 4224 along with 4227,4203 and 1621 in this slide from my collection. No photographer information available.

The first CNW GE road unit since the ill fated U30C's of 1968 rests at Bill awaiting another coal train assignment.

LS&I gators 2400,2405,2401 are heading west to Ishpeming after departing the yard at Eagle Mills. The area including the cars and locomotives is all covered in ore dust. At this point in time the ... (more)

CP 4725,4559,4721,5012,CN 3702,3698 head off the CP's Montreal-Toronto line onto the line that goes west through the Ottawa Valley and then on to North Bay and Sudbury. This line is now pending ab... (more)

SOO 4225 rests in front of the long gone roundhouse and turntable in Sault Ste. Marie on the last day of April 1987.

BN train 2 heavy as usual with TOFC arrives at the west end of N. La Crosse yard lead by a typical BN consist for the mid eighties. Power this day is GP50's 3141 and 3140 spliced with B30-7A 4043.

WC 2500,2005,1753,6550 arive at Trout Lake with train GBSOA. The ex Southern SD35 that came to the WC via the FRV merger was a common sight in Upper Michigan before it was rebuilt and repainted in... (more)

WC has owned the AC for about 2 days and this geep already has a new number and herald. Ahead in the future will be a trip to N. Fond du Lac for a new low nose and WC maroon and gold.

In what was surely a blast from the past, even in 1998, WC 6654 leads AC 1756,1762,1761,1754 on the 65 cars of train GBSOA departing for Sault Ste. Marie. That is an A-A-B-B-A set of EMD F's for t... (more)

Deep in the Soo era in Upper Michigan a pair of geeps, 414,401 power a short 15 car train 12 past the depot in Rudyard. The agent had been moved out long before and the building was surviving as a... (more)

Soo 1515 rests at La Crosse, it was one of a few ex Milw. MP15's to get full Soo paint. It was later sold to UP along with 31 other MP15s.

Freshly painted 6718 leads 6709 and 56 cars of the Escanaba-Green Bay freight east near Daggett.

The WC's lone SD35 worked Upper Michigan quite often in the mid 90's. After it was rebuilt it found a job in the Wausau area and I don't think I ever seen it again. It did end up as being one of t... (more)

Not long after the Soo bought the MN&S the pair of MN&S SD39's started to roam system wide. Equipped with Hancock air whistles and with an amber flasher above the front walkway the units presented... (more)