An Escanaba & Lake Superior passenger extra passes the depot at Stiles Junction, Wisconsin, on August 29, 1987. The train is operating from Crivitz to Green Bay on the former Milwaukee Road line f... (more)

In June 1984, Golden Arrow Lines operated excursions on the Central Wisconsin Railroad Company route between Waukesha and Whitewater, Wisconsin. Passing the Nite Cap Inn at Palmyra is one of the e... (more)

Not long after departing East Winona, Green Bay & Western train 2 rambles through Wisconsin farm country at Marshland on the morning of December 5, 1992. The eastbound train is powered by a quarte... (more)

Not a bad neighborhood—but it’s sure noisy at times
Taking up residence behind the background of a Union Switch and Signal Company searchlight signal on the Soo Line’s westbound m... (more)

After making its station stop at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Amtrak’s Empire Builder departs on June 28, 1993. The westbound train is approaching the N. 25th Street overpass on Soo Line’s former Mil... (more)

Soo Line train 12 uses the connection track at Duplainville, Wisconsin, as it heads toward Milwaukee on August 1, 1987. Powering the train is a pair of Soo EMD GP9s, a GP35 and a former Milwaukee ... (more)

Burlington Northern train 143 marches westbound over the Wisconsin River Bridge near Prairie du Chien at Crawford, Wisconsin, on the warm morning of July 30, 1995.

Two cowls and an AC
Wisconsin Central train 45 descends Byron Hill at Hamilton, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of June 11, 1996. Powering the westbound train that is nearing the crew chang... (more)

Canadian National train 348, led by EMD SD50F “cowl” No. 5444, grinds up Byron Hill south of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on the morning of July 31, 2005.

Soo Line train 11, powered by EMD GP30 Nos. 716 and 703, slowly moves west toward Duplainville, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of July 26, 1987. As the train approaches the Springdale Road grade cros... (more)

A Chicago & North Western extra west out of Butler Yard passes the wigwags protecting Townline Road grade crossing west of North Lake, Wisconsin, on January 24, 1993.

Before Canadian National had its own route between Duluth/Superior and Chicago, it relied on trackage rights over Burlington Northern, until merging Wisconsin Central into the family in 2001 to ac... (more)

Some sort of issues on Canadian Pacific’s main line in Ontario brought CP detours from Canada to Wisconsin Central and Soo Line trackage in June 1992. On June 25, 1992, CP train 505 is southboun... (more)

A southbound Wisconsin Central coal train passes by the Don Bechler and Sons dairy farm just south of Van Dyne, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of April 14, 1997.

Unfortunately no helpers today, but M336 originated in Neenah rather than Fond Du Lac and had 156 cars on the drawhead.