347 makes its way north toward the Duplainville diamond

A C&NW local freight passes through Marinette, WI on June 9, 1983 on the way it its next job. It was a pleasant day, good reason for some time on the front porch.

Early morning catch of this southbound crossing the former DM&IR Oliver Bridge linking Minnesota (Duluth) and Wisconsin (Oliver).

A late T004 makes its way west and south through the small town of Genesee Depot

A must see (and ride) visit to the Northwoods of Wisconsin is the Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad. Here, former Milwaukee Road 1616, an SW-1 built in 1940, rolls the family pizza train Northward... (more)

A pair of ponies and a UP unit lead this manifest south under the Bug Line.

A striped barn leads this manifest through North Duplainville as signs of Spring start to emerge in Southeast Wisconsin

On a cloudy and surprisingly snowless December day in 1982 a Milwaukee Road train off the DW&P in West Duluth heads for Minneapolis over BN while one of the home road's SD9s works the DM&IR interc... (more)

Parallel parked—not: A Soo Line train using trackage rights on the Milwaukee Road derailed at night on the trip into Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in April 1984. I don’t remember much of the details, but ... (more)

A neat consist leads the Superior to Northtown freight.

Spring flowers give way to ICE showers as a Canadian Pacific oil train heads south to Chicago.

Swift of foot was Hiawatha; He could shoot an arrow from him, And run forward with such fleetness, That the arrow fell behind him!

This is quite literally, my favorite place to shoot on the CN Waukesha. When I heard "NS 1056 South, stop indication, South Duplainville", I knew exactly where I had to get to. Some creative drivi... (more)

The Soo's only SD9 working at Marshfield in 1966. Photo is probably by the late Joe Stauber.

One of the few remaining SD40-3's left in Illinois Central paint, this unit is running lite power back into Shops Yard toward the Roundhouse lead for some fuel and sand before its next assignment