Milw 555 passes the Grand Crossing tower at the east end of Milwaukee's La Crosse yard. I think this job was called the Portage Patrol, but it was a long time ago and things are getting pretty haz... (more)

Milw 2050,2065,2068,2064 amble along with 131 cars on some rough track near Kiel. The train is bound for Green Bay. The weather had not cooperated most of the day with thunder showers and humid co... (more)

The thing I remember most about this photo is nearly being consumed alive by black flies as I waited out the arrival of the train. I may have even discovered a type of fly that thrived on bug repe... (more)

BN 2512, 2535, 2530, 4365 lead an inside gateway train on WP rails. BN assigned some rather problematic power to these jobs for the longest time, probably much to the chagrin of the WP crews and s... (more)

The Bozeman pass pusher set leans hard on the rear of a westbound freight as they slug it out with the grades of Bozeman Pass. MRL 391,7549,216,680,7545 are really roaring as they shake the ground... (more)

By the time I started shooting slides in the fall 1976 the chances for Soo Line F-unit sets were greatly diminished. While there were still 44 F's at the time, they were more often than not just ... (more)

A DM&E westbound is slowly making its way into Rapid City with three Ex Milwaukee Road rebuilt SD9's for power. The leader and trailing unit are still in full Milwaukee Road paint and the middle u... (more)

SP 8141,8131,8139,8124 tackle Byron Hill with ore bound for Utah.

A long way from Northern Ontario, Ex ACR GP7's 1503,1507 power a WC local near Appleton. N Fond du Lac has already given both geeps nose jobs and WC paint is not far off in there future. Appleton ... (more)

Right after the Soo-Milwaukee merger a number of units were swapped from one property to the other even though operations were not fully integrated for a few months. The Soo had about 10 Milwaukee... (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)

Utah gators 403,402,401 have just put a UP caboose on a string of empty coal cars. The units will now run around the train and depart the south end of the yard at Martin and head for the mines.

VIA 6531,6632 are starting to accelerate train 2 away from the station stop in Kenora on a humid late May afternoon. In the distance you can see the CPR station,freight house and the local SW seri... (more)

BN found itself with quite a diverse group of power on merger day and due to ever increasing coal traffic most of the relics hung on for quite a long time. Here is an oldie shuffling caboose's aro... (more)

Milwaukee Road power at the roundhouse in La Crosse. The group consists of 5701,2007, the geep to the right is 293 and the SW to the left is 861. The buildings were crumbling and the service track... (more)