While waiting around for the BC Rail heritage unit at Ackerville, WSOR L249 made its departure for Milwaukee. The chase was on to nearby Richfield. A trio of GP38-2's are wide open in run 8 as the... (more)
A pair of CN SD70 variants waste no time northbound with A491 in tow.
BCOL 4620 leads Q117 northbound past a rural scene near Richfield WI.
WSOR 3804 leads train HM across Hwy 167 in Richfield, WI in May of 2008. I was still shooting Fujichrome slides at this time.
The ugly duckling gets the lead on L249's return to North Milwaukee after switching Ackerville.
With traffic from Horicon and the CN interchange at Ackerville, a pair of GP38s hustle back towards Milwaukee passing the old elevator in Richfield.
A pair of GEs pull this double stack north through Rugby Junction.
CN 5466 and a partner SD75i ease their train through the siding at Rugby Junction, to meet a pair of southbounds. A very peculiar choice for the meet, as the siding is a mere 7750 feet long, where... (more)
Dropping downgrade towards the south end of the siding at Rugby Jct, a pair of C40-8Ws drift past the southeast Wisconsin countryside.
Something about standard cab NS units really gets me going. Here a C40-9 and a big EMD fly south around the tight curve at south Rugby.
The second of two NS led southbounds is hangin' loose (as per the hogger's wave) and flying out of Rugby Jct.
A lone BlueBerry C-40W starts it's string of empty hoppers south at Rugby Jct.
As autumn starts to show up, a southbound stack train rumbles into Rugby Jct.
WSOR 4007 and three EMD sisters lead train T016 on home rails as they head toward North Milwaukee. From there, they'll exercise trackage rights on the Canadian Pacific C&M Sub for the trip into C... (more)
Dragging a long at track speed.
