WC 2001,6596 rumble off the I-bridge into Michigan at Sault Ste. Marie with 60 cars on train SOFDA. By 2001 most WC action around Sault, Michigan was in the late evening making views like this onl... (more)

Kind of like now days for awhile in the late 70's it seemed everyone was getting into the locomotive leasing business. An outfit named Chrome Crankshaft bought a number of Ex SP RS32's and repaint... (more)

CNW 8552,8550 lead 150 empties past the Dumper Shed in Escanaba heading back to Empire Mine to reload. The C40-8's assigned to Escanaba, units 8550-8553 were equipped with Locotrol II and returned... (more)

BN 5676,6559,SLSF 713 have been cut off their train so a switch job in the background could do a little work on it's head end. In the meantime the crew had moved the power over to an area near the... (more)

BN 2200,725,1768 have paused at Lyle with train 182. The train is making a set out of a few cars along with GP9 1768 to be used on the branch line toward Klickitat and Goldendale. The station in i... (more)

GECX 3002 a GE Super Series -7 rests at Bill, At the time CNW was testing a couple of these units in coal service. They hung around awhile as I was back in the area three months later and seen one... (more)

CNW 8510,8034,UP 6111,6134 have an eastbound load near West Myles. Three units were more common at the time on CNW jobs with at least one C40-8 normally leading the way.

CNW 8519, UP 9151, 6160 are cruising along at a pretty good clip as they start to pick up speed after dragging a coal load over a fair sized hump on the way to S. Morrill.

Hard to imagine but in 1990 a solid set of UP power on a coal train in the Powder River Basin was more the exception than the rule. CNW normally added at least one unit to all the power sets that ... (more)

Near the end of a long spring day CNW 8514, UP 9152, 6168 head an empty train back to the mines near Logan. This area is either triple or four tracks wide now and catching a standard cab unit on a... (more)

By 1990 the Soo Line was long gone from my Upper Michigan haunts and the WC still held little interest to me with the mixed power sets of units roaming the area in their former owners paint scheme... (more)

An early morning westbound is lead by 4258,2541 with 116 cars at Lyle. The wind whipped Columbia is visible in the background.

BN train 139 rolls east along the towering cliffs near Wishram. 139 was a secondary freight that made the inside gateway trip to the WP connection at Bieber. Today's train is powered by BN 2529,43... (more)

BN 824 with SLSF 702 and BN 4243 pass through a slow order with a 91 car westbound along the Columbia near Stevenson during the summer of 1979.

Before the BN bought the Frisco they had a number of GP35's leased for system wide service due to a power shortage in early to mid 1979. Most of them tended to congregate in the Pacific Northwest ... (more)