With the main show going on several cars back at the Amtrak Station, myself and a two other photographers take the chance to get night shots of the 2249 and train without a lot of people crowding ... (more)
The skies have cleared and the moon shines nice and bright over down town Milwaukee as all the people line up against the fence for as far as possible and stand shoulder to shoulder enjoying the l... (more)
CP's Holiday train running late After congestion south og Rondout and having to wait for Amtrak to leave, finally pulls into Milwaukee to a Massive crowd.
The eastbound out of the SOO rolls through Garden River and over the "Indian Land" bridge.
The daily eastbound out of the SOO departs the yard and passes the old CP yard office with a pair of GP40-2LW's up front for power wit a small steel train.
P371 slows to take the siding at Saugatuck where they will meet Q326 which is already there holding the mainline.
2040 running long hood forward and fighting afternoon shadows leads it's train out of Walhalla for Ludington after switching out the entire train in Baldwin.
A remote job has just pulled and spotted PCA and returns to it's train on the main and will then shove back to the yard and do the local customers that surround the yard.
A pair of YN2 AC4400's lead Q326 the last few miles to Wyoming yard where the train will terminate.
A pair of YN2 AC4400's lead manifest train 326 east towards Grand Rapids MI. These two would look more at home down on the Mountain sub but I can not complain.
1066 sits out a cool night on the Grand Elk as it waits for it's grain train to be loaded.
WSOR 4076 the lone wolf on 302 screams by the NS 1066 that is at the Grain Elevator in White Pigeon on a cool November evening.
A loaded coal train pulls through the yard and will pull it's train right into the power plant's yard which is behind me.
4225 makes it's way through Hamilton as the conductor and his trainee protect the point. The end of the line is a couple hundred feet behind me.
After switching out a local customer, the WSOR twins and a GP39-2 shove back to their train before heading south with a destination of Kalamazoo.