Four formidable flares
Eighty cylinders worth of nice-looking EMD SD45s drum past with a southbound Wisconsin Central freight just north of Duplainville, Wisconsin, on a cold, wintery J... (more)

Rainbow colors of early WC
The first days of Wisconsin Central where a scramble of getting trains over the railroad and enough power to do so. On November 7, 1987, almost a month after ... (more)

MILW 2024 leads a Soo Line train making a set-out at Duplainville, WI in April of 1987. The pair of GP40's used the new connector track between the ex-MILW mainline and the original Soo Line. The ... (more)

With plenty of freight to move, and a scramble to acquire used locomotives to fill its roster, early Wisconsin Central was a colorful railroad. Three weeks after its startup, WC train 42 approache... (more)

On the afternoon of November 12, 2001, a Canadian Pacific freight pulled by lone CP GE AC4400CW No. 8630, rumbles westbound through Duplainville, Wisconsin. In the 2000s, the Soo Line Railroad and... (more)

It's been a year since the merger with the Soo Line, but the Milwaukee Road is still going strong. MILW 2064 is on the Milwaukee connection at Duplainville, WI. in February of 1987. 2064 still run... (more)

The blue hour has descended upon a frigid, snow-covered scene as Wisconsin Central train 47, powered by a pair of CSX EMD’s and a WC EMD SD45, raises powdery snow departing Duplainville, Wiscons... (more)

CN 3110 leads a southbound intermodal through Duplainville, Wisconsin.

A pair of Milwaukee Road EMD GP40s power Soo Line train 243 at Duplainville, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of April 12, 1987. The eastbound train is making a set out on the old Soo Line siding using... (more)

Wisconsin Central train 47 lets ’er rip departing Duplainville, Wisconsin, late on the afternoon of April 6, 1989. For what seemed like years (it was a few), WC power was dominated by “Green W... (more)

Wisconsin Central train 47 out of Milwaukee approaches Springdale Road grade crossing near Duplainville, Wisconsin, on a sunny June 6, 1991, in a Kodachrome telesmash wedgie of a trio of fairly fr... (more)

At the end of a cold December 7, 1996, day, Wisconsin Central train 47 diverges onto the connection track at Duplainville, Wisconsin, for the trip back home to North Fond du Lac. Train Nos. 46 and... (more)

MILW 33A is in charge of a Hiawatha as it approaches Duplainville, WI in June of 1969. Bob Ferge image from my collection.

Amtrak’s westbound Empire Builder passes Soo Line train 17 at Duplainville, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of June 6, 1987. Leading train 17 is a former Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern EMD SD39,... (more)

On the afternoon of July 29, 1997, a southbound Wisconsin & Southern freight, led by former Southern Pacific EMD GP20 No. 4118, is about to thunder over the diamond at Duplainville, Wisconsin. In ... (more)