What Alcos do ...

Not long after transfer from assignment in Huron SD, the 4251 has made a new home in Upper Michigan. The lone CNW RS-11 usually was assigned to the job that worked from Iron Mountain to Powers and... (more)

After the WC takeover of the FRV/GBW in the late summer of 1993 WC units tended to work quite often north of Green Bay on the CNW trains that ran from Green Bay to Iron Mountain/Quinnesec, this wa... (more)

CNW painted a few units in the C628 fleet during the winter of 1981/82. Some of them were definitely in need of new paint and it made for some good photos until the rigors of ore service and the h... (more)

After the WC bought the FRV/GBW they inherited a rather diverse group of units in the takeover. The ex GBW Alcos were parked ASAP and the FRV GP7/9/30/35's along with the pair of SD24's and single... (more)

A westbound Minoreca train threads through Powers with WC 6587, 6592, LS&I 3002 powering 83 empties. A CNW crew has brought the train over from Escanaba and will be getting a taxi ride home from H... (more)

CNW 6702,6718 lead 115 coal hoppers railroad west but geographically east at Powers. This set had emptied out at Green Bay and was heading to Tilden Mine for a back haul of pellets.

DMIR 129,222 swing around the wye in Powers with a Minoreca enpty.

CNW 6729,6712,4140 chug out of Powers with ESGBA. The smaller 4 axle Alcos have already been withdrawn from service and the C628's will only last until the end of the year before joining them in t... (more)

A long way from hot Falcon service that they were originally bought for the now high mileage 5065 and 5090 find themselves on a much slower portion of the Northwestern, lugging 55 cars of mainly p... (more)

CNW 8031,WC 6598, EMD 1554,1565 roll downhill into Powers with a load of ore that originated at Minorca Mine. This ore will be dumped at Escanaba, then boated south to the Chicago area. In the far... (more)

Canadian National's Gladstone, MI to Green Bay, WI freight makes its way through a perfect winter landscape in Powers, MI. Snow, followed by rain, more snow, ice, and snow managed to coat nearly e... (more)

The C&NW ore operations were concentrated around Escanaba. I took Route 41 by accident ran across this solid ore train somewhere between Ocnoto and Powers. Trains Magazine used to call these engi... (more)

GBESA waits for its counterpart, ESGBA, at the east of the passing siding at Powers.