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)

First generation EMD power dominated BN operations in Iron Range country in the early years of the merger. Midnight on a nice summer July evening witnesses BN 6111, SD9, BN f7B 779, an NW2 and a s... (more)

CNW 6867 leads a freight across Pike Creek near Somers, WI in January of 1989. The train is on CNW's New Line.

CN 1501 track evaluation car made from an RDC-1 slows to a stop in front of the former Soo Line depot (now a museum) at Colfax, WI. holding briefly in the siding, it will continue east to Chippewa... (more)

CN 3818 leads a stack train south out of Pokegama Yard passing under the BNSF at Saunders as it starts its trip to Chicago. This interchange sees traffic from all four major carriers as both CP an... (more)

BN 6114 shows off its "Y" front end, a feature of the GN Big Sky Blue scheme. 100 units lower, BN 6014, an SD7, is in the early 60s simplified scheme. Both are at the roundhouse at Belkn... (more)

Here is a view of the shorthand, rear of BN 1540, coupled to a vintage tank car used in maintenance service to carry water. They are enjoying light snow at the former GN Belknap Yard in Superior t... (more)

BN 1540, a former GN GP7 that made it to the merger in its original colors, hangs out in light snow at Belknap Yard in Superior, WI. The former GN yard was an important terminal for BN and is stil... (more)

The SD7/SD9 fleet of the Great Northern which dominated the Missable Division is being invaded by newer EMD SDs in the form of SD40s & 40-2s by 1975. BN 6009 is one of several seen at the Belknap ... (more)

Back in 1975 the BN was still switching ore cars and making dock shoves. Taconite was growing, but would be a while before the railroad converted dock loading to conveyors. BN 6115 and 6106 pair u... (more)