A trio of WC's finest have reached the summit of Byron Hill with a heavy manifest train bound for Chicago. Standing on the old County Highway F overpass listening to SD45s grind their way up the h... (more)

The crew of the WC 3018 is working on putting their train together, they even have a sign to prove it. This GP40 has been around the block a few times. It started life as Seaboard Coast Line R... (more)

The local out of Escanaba is headed for Partridge powered by 590, 4013 along with a few cars for the sawmill at the old K.I. Sawyer airbase and some interchange freight to the LS&I. Catching a SDL... (more)

Stretch em

6543 scoots east with a short 6 car train. If you look close you can see a couple of logs ready to unload off the first car. Over the years I became pretty vigilant about looking the first few car... (more)

WC 3018 and GTW 6225 hustle back south to the yard, light power.

Caffey, Michigan consists of a short siding and a handful of residences, most now used as cabins. On occasion pulp/logs are loaded there for transport west but for the most part the biggest action... (more)

The early WC had a few SW1200's from SP that were generally assigned to Stevens Point, North Fond du Lac and Gladstone. The 2260 is getting train 12 put together on the west end of Gladstone Yard ... (more)

WC 2004, AC 1762, WC 6596 lead GBSOA away from Trout Lake with 47 cars. The ex ACR GP38-2 is looking fine in nearly spotless condition on this late August day.

Labor problems on the Soo/CSX sent CPR Montreal-Chicago traffic back onto its former route through Upper Michigan for a few days in April 1991. This westbound is getting ready to depart Soo Yard w... (more)

The Wisconsin and Southern’s Paint Facility in Horicon, Wisconsin, has just finished painting the first Wisconsin Central EMD F45 No. 6650. A contest was run internally on the railroad to come up ... (more)

The WC was blessed with some slow running street trackage getting through Oshkosh, it was a left over from the former Soo main that became a major bottleneck as business boomed. The street trackag... (more)

WC 3027, AC 1762, WC 6630 roll through the forest about 5 miles east of Trout Lake. By the late 90's the riot of color was about gone off the WC and most units were looking good.

WC 3018 kicks cars at Joliet's East End on this cool morning.