On a gloomy morning, various equipment sits around at Wisconsin Great Northern.

Wisconsin & Southern EMD GP20 No. 2001 rolls through the Wisconsin countryside north of Burnett on the WSOR’s Horicon to Oshkosh line on May 6, 1997.

On Chicago & North Western’s Adams Line, a C&NW potash extra heads eastbound through North Lake, Wisconsin, on a wintery March 22, 1992.

NS 8101 leads a colorful consist thru Franksville, WI on UP's Milwaukee Sub on April Fools Day, 2022.

A southbound Wisconsin Central freight treads as lightly as it can through the front yards of homes lining Division Street in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on November 18, 1989. Two children head down the s... (more)

Chicago & North Western train 569 curves through Wales, west of Waukesha, Wisconsin, in August 1983, powered by a trio of EMD GP7 locomotives. Early the following year, C&NW abandoned this line fr... (more)

Green Bay & Western train 2 crosses a bridge parallel to a dam on the Black River that forms Lake Arbutus at Hatfield, Wisconsin, on December 5, 1992. The train is pulled by a quartet of GB&W Alco... (more)

A Soo Line freight bursts through some snow at a highway grade crossing at Hartland, Wisconsin, on its journey west on the former Milwaukee Road main line on a snowy January 21, 1993.

Wisconsin Central’s first day
On October 11, 1987, the first Wisconsin Central freight train to climb Byron Hill out of Shops Yard at North Fond du Lac, approaches the top of the grade... (more)

Looking straight down on the dynamic brake fans of Wisconsin Central EMD SD45 No. 6593 at the locomotive facility at Shops Yard at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on April 5, 1996.

Wisconsin Central train 46 heads southbound through rolling Wisconsin farmland at Theresa on the morning of July 20, 1996. That’s Wisconsin state highway 28 rising over the hill above the pair o... (more)

The Chicago metropolitan area is known for having multiple fake springs, interrupted by freak winter weather. So to the surprise of nobody in the area, a freak blizzard swept across Chicago and Mi... (more)

CP 2316 switches out cars at Stinson Yard in Superior.

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy EMD E5 No. 9911-A and the Nebraska Zephyr Budd-built streamliner trainset curves over the top of Byron Hill at Byron, Wisconsin, on September 30, 1993. This classy Zep... (more)

A northbound Fox River Valley Railroad freight passes a Wisconsin dairy farm south of Eden on August 30, 1992. The train is powered by the road’s pair of EMD SD24s bracketing an EMD SD35, along ... (more)