With an epic RS5T blaring and a long train from Horicon in tow, WSOR 3807 and two MP15s are about to roll over the power switch across the CN at Slinger.
An odd Sunday run of the Janesville - Horicon train came as a surprise, and the appearance of the sun did too! Here both come together in Hartford as the train bombs through on the relatively new ... (more)
This CSXT Potash train was the last train my little Nikon D40 captured (in good light) before taking a fatal 9 inch fall. Now, camera-less, I must find a replacement before I miss out on the autum... (more)
A nice surprise on a long weekend, a Sunday edition of Train #4. Here the 4004 and two other SD40s bring their long train past the Wern Farms at Williams, just outside of Waukesha.
A pair of General Motors products bring the eastbound RoadRailer down the wrong main and towards Illinois and ultimately to home rails on the NS.
CP's newest power has taken over nearby Muskego Yard, and now, it appears on road trains as a big manifest rolls towards the Milwaukee depot behind 2 "Aardvarks", an SD40, and a SOO GP38.
One of Canadian Pacific's newest GEs screams west with the remnants of what was once the Ford Fast, now reduced to carrying junk and a few autoracks after the closing of the Ford Plant in the Twin... (more)
On a mid-April evening, a classic SOO Line leader slings an empty coke train through Pewaukee.
With two "ThunderCab" SD70M-2s on each end, a southbound rolls through PDC Junction, where at one point, the Milwaukee Road line to Milton, and the SOO Line main to Schiller once met. Now, a small... (more)
Five big units, none the same model, haul a monster stacker north just after sunrise as EJ&E 660 waits for the L504 crew to arrive and start the days work switching in and around Waukesha.
Just out of Marsh after meeting the CN 8014 South, train M347 is working hard to get back up to trackspeed behind a killer lashup. The clouds broke just in time to tele-smash this guy, and came ba... (more)
A good looking Deathstar SD70 leads a manifest north towards Fond du Lac.
As the early winter sun makes a mad dash for the horizon, a cowl bodied Dash-8 gurgles through Waukesha.
The Big Berk slings around a superelevated curve en route to Bucyrus. Was great to see her in operation! Well worth the drive from Wisconsin.
A Union Pacific led tank train rolls by the historic Brookfield Depot.