WC 6525,6521 are arriving at Partridge with a few loads of mine supplies and the Tilden empties.

One of the last group of used SD45's purchased by WC has had a quick renumbering/stencil job and been put right to work in the wilds of the Ex ACR Northern Ontario route. This is Train 10 with a h... (more)

WC 3027 at Steelton Shops in Sault Ste. Marie, ON. The ACR had bought the two GP40's a year or so before for use on the Agawa Canyon tour trains. The WC left them on that assignment for awhile aft... (more)

At start up WC bought a number of smaller EMD SW's. These worked fine for a few years, until increasing traffic made them a little underpowered for some assignments. The WC then started to accumul... (more)

Just a few minutes before sunset of a warm late August day WC 7638,IC 3102,WC 6579 highball west at Vandyne. The CN merger had happened the prior fall and most of the WC's vintage 4 axle units had... (more)

The local's power switches in the small yard at Rhinelander, a former terminal on the Soo Line Sault Sainte Marie line. The GP30 is a former Soo Line equipped with Alco type B Trucks

WC 2401,589 switch out some pulp loads at Trout Lake on a cold winter day. The building to the far left of 2401 was the section foreman's house and had not seen use since the 1950's. Remarkably it... (more)

Just another day on the WC in May of 98, but with a set of power probably impossible to find anywhere else. GP30 2252 leads FP9 1752 and F45 6655 eastbound on train GBSOA near Caffey.

WC 7528,6532 have 55 loads working upgrade from Empire Junction to Partridge. The WC normally brought the loads out in two cuts from Empire Mine to Partridge.They then combined them into a 110 car... (more)

WC 3027,3026 lead the snow train south at Heyden with 17 cars. The WC had bought the ACR a few weeks earlier and all the ACR units except one SD40-2, on lease to CPR were quickly renumbered and ha... (more)

Since merging with CN in 2001 Wisconsin Central paint has become an infrequent site in this area. However, in the past month WC 3000 has appeared a few times to be used as yard power and on local... (more)

WC 3026,7510 highball west through a partially blown in cut near Rexton with the Tilden empties.

WC 2003 leads ACR 1750,1762,1754,1755,1752 and 72 cars east. That is an incredible consist for 1998, even by WC standards. The A-B-A set just behind 2003 had powered an extra the previous evening ... (more)

A mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain had been falling all day, but the WC was still up to the challenge with this only on the WC fantastic lash up. 2401,6639,1752 and 3021 have the 75 cars of tr... (more)

WC 6581,6587.814 growl thru Malacca with ore loads bound for interchange to the CNW at Hermansville. This train had a particularly slow trip across the old Soo from Ladysmith east and had outlawed... (more)