Starting operations in 1988, the Fox River Valley Railroad would operate its last train only five years later after incurring financial troubles. Many of the units, including this GP9, would end ... (more)

A former Soo Line GP30 leads a colorful string of cars after a fresh Wisconsin snowfall. Tom Kidd photo.

Wisconsin Central train 47 thunders through the snow north of Duplainville, Wisconsin, and is about to pass over Weyer Road grade crossing on a wintery February 12, 1994.

A Wisconsin Central welder has just lit off a thermite weld pot on the WC main line at Duplainville, Wisconsin, on March 23, 1996. A one-time-use form is attached to the rails surrounding the join... (more)

It’s Christmas day and the scrappers working in Wisconsin Central’s Shops Yard locomotive facility at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, are home with their families enjoying the holiday. In the fo... (more)

Every surface is covered with frost and ice as Wisconsin Central train 39, powered by lone EMD SD45 No. 6521, switches cars at Hermansville, Michigan, on December 28, 1996.

WC 3018 running the CN L548 job out of Manitowoc WI makes a set out of two covered hoppers on the Country Visions spur in Rockwood WI.

The only WC GP40-2 left on the CN roster takes a rest after working on the L548 job out of Manitowoc Wisconsin.

The only WC GP40-2 left on the CN roster is working the L548 job out of Manitowoc Wisconsin.

The former SOU 3024, built in 1965, has certainly seen better days. After the Southern, it became the Fox River Valley Railroad #2500 before it was sent to the Wisconsin Central. It spent loyal ye... (more)

A bitter cold winter day has caused a rail break on the Wisconsin Central main line entering Shops Yard near the Subway Road grade crossing at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on December 11, 1994. T... (more)

Dragging the loads out, shoving the empties in, that’s all this WC GP40 knows these days, truly an amazing engine doing hard work on its original rails.

The last of its kind left, the only WC GP40 remaining, serves its life out on its original trackage, still without PTC on a line that doesn’t require it.

CN "Rock Job" U700 overtakes a parked CN 5690 at South Duplainville. Just ahead is the Duplainville diamond where CN's Waukesha Sub crosses Canadian Pacific's Watertown Sub.

WC 3011 brings a private car charter thru Kewaskum, WI in June of 1994. The train is on the ex-CNW Airline between Milwaukee and Fond Du Lac, much of which has since been abandoned including the t... (more)