A fairly clean Soo GP30 rests with two GP9's near the roundhouse at Stevens Point. The GP30 will soon become WC property.

A group of tired beat up mongrels gather at the Escanaba Roundhouse on a sunny Sunday afternoon. The Baldwin/EMD rebuilds were in pretty rough shape and tended to be kept close to home around the ... (more)

LMX 8578,8502,8580 lead manifest train 100 eastbound near Newport while a westbound Soo train passes on the far left of the frame on the BN/Soo shared trackage east of the Twin Cities.

When I think DM&IR this is what normally comes to mind, clean units, non turbo EMD's, and good rail. The Steelton job has just begin the assault on Steelton Hill with 208,175,313,189 and 193.

DRGW 3095,3112,3083 lead SP 7462,9189 and eastbound manifest traffic at Clear Creek in the summer of 1990. SP power was beginning to show up fairly regularly on the DRGW that summer but the Grande... (more)

CNW 7006, 7019 curve off UP's east-west main onto the coal line at a junction that I vaguely remember as being called O'Fallons?

The WC was kind of a disappointment to me at first, with patched SDL's, GP30's, GP35's and Ex BN "Green Weenie" SD45's, but once they managed to get their act together I felt it turned into one of... (more)

Heavy traffic and cold conditions found the WC running an Extra train 35 about an hour behind the regular job on this February day. WC 584, 2401 lead 47 cars of mainly empty pulpwood gons east nea... (more)

Coal loads with MAC's 9466,9620,9671 are crawling along at 10mph as they work up Walker Hill. Not long before this 5-6 SD40-2 or C30-7/U30C's would have been powering this train.

After the Geneva ore contact was up and going SP assigned their best/newest power to service to it. That brought new GE's onto WC/DM&IR for the trip from Chicago to the Mine. Four nearly spotless ... (more)

An ex UP GP30 rebuilt with a Cat prime mover that the Soo referred to as a GP30C trails an Ex Milwaukee MP15 and a Soo SD60 on a beautiful October afternoon. These units were common around the Twi... (more)

GB&W 307 leads the Plover job east with 13 cars as it is about to duck under Highway 54 at the east end of the Wisconsin Rapids yard.

A group of out of service Baldwin RS-12's at the E&LS yard in Wells. The E&LS did quite a bit of car repair for other roads at the time and the line of boxes to the right are in for repair/recondi... (more)

Until the Groveland Mine north of Iron Mountain closed down the CNW ran the Antoine Turn on a daily basis departing Escanaba a little after 11AM. It went to Iron Mountain and swapped empties for l... (more)

Returning home from a few days in Wisconsin I was greeted with this sight on the E&LS at Marinette. The GB&W Alco was on lease and looked plenty modern compared to E&LS Baldwins 202 and 214 as uni... (more)