Bound for Memphis, TN, M336 rolls through Fond Du Lac with a load of covered hoppers

This BNSF-led southbound manifest rolls through Fond du Lac headed for BRC Clearing.

BNSF power leads M340 south out of Shops Yard past the abandoned Wisconsin Central lattice-through-truss bridge over the Fond du Lac River.

The FRV spin-off of CNW lines in the Fox Valley of Wisconsin didn't have many C-C units and here are three of them preparing to make a set-out on train GBPRA at North Fond du Lac. SD24 2401 leads ... (more)

On November 19, 1994, Green Bay and Western boxcars see the end of the line at a scrapyard in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

The Fond Du Lac south local has just departed Shops Yard for the trip out to Quad Graphics to give them a evening spot and pull at Byron. This L515 mainly works the couple customers south of Fond ... (more)

The L515 local is an afternoon local does local work south of Fond Du Lac. Their main customer is Quad Graphics at Byron. They normally make an afternoon trip out to spot and pull paper cars for Q... (more)

A northbound Fox River Valley freight passes over the Fond du Lac River at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on March 25, 1990. The train has FRV’s two SD24s and the lone SD35 for power.

Taken at the C&NW roundhouse in North Fond du Lac, WI in 1936.

Wisconsin Central prepares its newly purchased Santa Fe SD45s with some truck work, among other things, at the shops at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. I used to wander inside those shops with a cam... (more)

A pair of switchers throw exhaust as they start to move a cut of cars in Fon du lac yard. The Wisconsin Central paint scheme still adorns the 1561.

The bitter cold can play havoc on track. Here, two Wisconsin Central trackmen fix broken track bolts that were sheared off by the contracting rail in a “pull apart.” A kerosene-soaked rope is plac... (more)

The CNW always kind of reminded me of a PRR of the mid-west, not as far as profits went but in the terms of motive power. The CNW seemed to have tried nearly every unit that just about anyone prod... (more)

A clean pair of GP30's is making up his train at North Fond du Lac yard.

Holiday Lights?- No, just colorful Alco/MLW class-lights. Shot from within the cab's brow- the need for these lights have gone the way of most other interesting locomotive features, in today's les... (more)