After a tiring climb up Byron Hill CN 3270 glides south through Lomira with a long stack train in tow

L576 soars over the Black River in Hatfield with a rare C44-9WL leader. This job does a turn out of Blair to Wisconsin Rapids, working industries along the way.

FRVR 4504 departs Fond Du Lac, WI. with a southbound freight in July of 1989. This portion of the ex-CNW Airline was still a thru route in FRVR days, but has since been cut back to Eden, WI.

With a light dusting of snow on the ground, a trio of ex-UP SD60M's leading the Wisconsin & Southern's Y302 has departed from the yard in Janesville, Wisconsin and pulled up for a brief stop at th... (more)

CNW 6805 leads train ALSSA thru Roberts, WI on a beautiful day in March of 1990.

A447 pushes north towards Green Bay where the 4th unit in line, CN 103 an EMD E9A will be placed on display at the National Railroad Museum

Marching into Van Dyne
With a light pall of exhaust laying down over the power, Soo Line train 19 marches into Van Dyne, Wisconsin, on the sunny, late afternoon of August 2, 1987. Powere... (more)

FRVR 4508 approaches the yard in Fond Du Lac, WI in January of 1993. Overshadowed by its' more glamorous neighbor, the Wisconsin Central, the FRVR was a favorite of mine and other C&NW fans.

KCSM 4565 leads CPKC 249 West under the searchlights at KK Bridge in Milwaukee.

GMTX 2138 (ex-RI) switches a cut of repaired hoppers in Racine, WI. in February of 2014. The cars were repaired at he Cudahy car shops. The train is on UP's Kenosha Sub, formerly CNW's Old Line th... (more)

AMTK 408 gets serviced at its station stop at North La Crosse, WI on the point of the North Coast Hiawatha. The E9 was built as MILW 31A in April 1956.

CNW 4138 leads short a freight past one of their unique semaphores at St. Francis, WI in September of 1986.

BN 6009, an SD7, shares the Belknap Yard engine facilities with for more SD7s and SD9s was well as other EMD power between assignments they day after Christmas 1975. Located next to downtown Super... (more)

BN 6114 shows off its rear short hood which received a simple white band wrapped around it when GN adopted the Big Sky Blue scheme in 1967. The SD9 is parked next to the roundhouse at Belknap Yard... (more)

BN 6115 and 6106, former GN SD9s, sit at Allouez Yard, Superior, WI, between assignments. Allouez Yard was GN & BN's major ore facilities that mixed raw are historically to load in ore dock pocket... (more)