Both led by all-EMD power, Soo Line trains 12 and 17 meet at Bryon, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of May 9, 1987. The Lake States era of Soo Line was colorful and frequently featured older locomotiv... (more)

Still serving the south, Southern Railway GP30 2601 drags a photo freight consist near the south end of the yard for National Train Day weekend at the North Carolina Transportation Museum.

CRC / NKP GP30 No. 902 is the power for the Cincinnati Dinner Train as it "splits the uprights" of the old PRR CPL signals at CP OAKLEY on the I&O's Oasis Sub.

NH&I's GP30 leads an excursion out of town on a hot summer afternoon.

Norfolk & Western EMD GP30 No. 558, complete with a high-hood nose, sits at Peoria & Pekin Union Railway’s yard at Peoria in March 1984. Only Southern Railway and N&W GP30s came with the unique ... (more)

Conrad Yelvington's Sanford ops can either be serviced by CSXT or they can do it themselves, in terms of swapping empties for loads as this particular tangent is still CSXT, not CFRC, so they only... (more)

Santa Fe EMD GP30 No. 2723 leads a westbound freight around Houlihan’s Curve at milepost 133 just west of Chillicothe, Illinois, on the afternoon of May 1, 1988. Six other Santa Fe EMD 4-axle un... (more)

BNSF's Argonne local is seen shoving into GM Yard at Hodgkins.

Soo Line EMD GP30 No. 716 leads Soo train 17 westbound at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of June 7, 1987. The view is along Mount Vernon Avenue not far west of Milwaukee’s Amtrak Station... (more)

Wisconsin Central’s first day
On October 11, 1987, the first Wisconsin Central freight train to climb Byron Hill out of Shops Yard at North Fond du Lac, approaches the top of the grade... (more)

On November 3rd, 2020 I was invited down to a quick photo shoot of some staged power on The Prairie Line. They set up their brightly painted SW1200, MP 15 and GP30 for a few quick photos off of A... (more)

In the fall of 1994 it was not uncommon to find pre-merger colors roaming the system, but it was still exciting. Regardless, catching a Chessie GP30 on the point of a manifest leaving Cumberland t... (more)

SOO 700 leads a pumpkin train west through Duluth.

A family is out ice fishing on a frozen Neenah Slough, as Wisconsin Central train 65 passes by in the background on the day after Christmas in 1994. Train 65 has EMD GP30 No. 713, a former Soo Lin... (more)

BN 2235 and 5412 wait for an assignment at BN's North La Crosse, WI engine facilities in February 1974. BN 2235 is former CB&Q 958 built in June 1962. BN 5412 is former GN 2512 built in May 1965.