Chicago & North Western EMD GP40 No. 5534 and an older EMD GP7, sit in front of the depot at Spooner, Wisconsin, on the railroad’s Eau Claire to Superior line on September 19, 1991.

Chicago and Northwestern U30C 933 leading a southbound freight at Spooner WI August 1976. Unknown Photographer Photo from my Collection.

CNW 883 leads an SD45 and CR SD40-2 south on train 406 out of Spooner towards Altoona, WI. It's a beautiful fall day and the SD40 represents one of the early CNW orders which did not have the trad... (more)

Let's all go to Spooner! CNW 6859 departs Spooner, WI in May of 1992 with a train bound for Itasca Yard in Superior.

This observation car was built in 1930 for the Reynolds family as the Winette, then became a MoPac business car and a SCL business car. Back into private hands for the Chicago Envelope company as... (more)

Sitting in the weeds at Spooner, Wisconsin's Railroad Memories Museum is this SW1 built by Electro-Motive in November 1940 and retired in May 1980. It was then sold as Superior Tie & Timber Co. 7... (more)

A former CNW plow sits in the weeds outside the RAILROAD MEMORIES MUSEUM in Spooner, WI. The museum is housed in the former Chicago & Northwestern Railway depot and has been transformed into a m... (more)

Spooner was once a major crossroads for the Omaha (C&NW) in northwestern Wisconsin with four lines radiating out of the general area. Now the town is served by tourist railroad Wisconsin Great Nor... (more)

Ex-Milwaukee Road SW-1 862 hibernates alongside the DM&IR's 250-ton wrecking crane after a spring storm deposited a foot of wet snow.

Like using a shotgun to kill a mosquito. This former DM&IR 250-ton-capacity wrecking crane was bought when the railroad purchased their massive 2-8-8-4 Yellowstones in the early 1940s. It was reti... (more)

Crews of the Wisconsin Great Northern fired up Missabe Road Crane X-7, to lift former Chicago & North Western F7A 400 off its rear truck. According to president Greg Vreeland, the 400 ''has given ... (more)

Shortly before the route was abandoned, SD40 876 leads a southbound freight from Superior on the mainline through Spooner toward Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

423, an ex-CNW F7, rests in Spooner Yard, an ex-CNW yard in northwestern Wisconsin. Much of the yard has been removed but a couple tracks remain, in use as the home base of Wisconsin Great Norther... (more)

Photo runby near Spooner on the Steve Glischinski photo charter.

Steve Glischinski photo charter with Soo 2719 on the WGN.