Milwaukee Road 169 heads Soo 2408 and the 32 cars of train 12 west. The Lake States experiment was winding down and due to problems with the older units assigned to these lines the Soo had brought... (more)

BN switch power in the form of 6163,580 idle away at the BN yard in Omaha. The SD9's could be found in all kinds of service at the time, probably everything except coal and maybe that even happene... (more)

Soo 2405,731,957 raise a little dust as they head train 12 west with 21 cars at Dafter. The Soo kept doing track maintenance until the end in Upper Michigan and the area north of Highway 28 had re... (more)

Milw. 550 shuffles ore cars at Iron River. This trackage along with the unit and Milwaukee Road ore cars are all long gone. The Milwaukee Road H16-66's that worked Upper Michigan ore country last ... (more)

On a nice Sept. afternoon CN 9603,9632,9623 roll through Coniston with an eastbound container train.

Soo 6018 leads another SD60 and a grain train east at Lake City.

Soo 778, Milw 140 roll train 2/222 with 117 cars over the Root River south of La Crescent.

AC 1754,WC 6590 slow for a crew change at the Highway 40 crossing in Fibre. This job was on short time departing Escanaba so the crew didn't bother turning the power before departing. It didn't wo... (more)

Another wild WC consist from 1999, GP30 2252 leads F9B 1761, F45 6656, and SDL39 583 eastbound with 56 cars near Gilchrist.

GB&W 318 rolls eastbound with the "Day Kewaunee" to work the Viking. Business on the cross lake car-ferries was slowly drying up in the late 70's and the handful of cars was quite a change from a ... (more)

The Milwaukee was not a major player in the traffic around Wisconsin Rapids although after rebuilding the line from New Lisbon to Wausau for coal trains they definitely had the best track in the a... (more)

CP 8428 along with a GP35 and C424 rest at the CPR roundhouse in Sault Ste. Marie after arriving with train 911. The GP35 had lead on the way in and the two lo nose units had already been cut off ... (more)

Despite massive traffic increases BN was able to retire Alcos, early GE's, EMD covered wagons, and even more modern units like SD45's,F45's and U33C's during the 80's. But as the 90's rolled aroun... (more)

A colorful WC lash up leads SOGBA west with 81 cars at Rudyard. The 6635 was part of the last group of used SD45's purchased by WC before the CN merger. It is trailed by FP9 1752 and GP40 3021.

VIA train 2 with 6507,6610 leading 12 cars is making its station stop/crew change at White River.