Bound for interchange to the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway in Illinois, a southbound Wisconsin Central taconite ore train rumbles by the old Soo Line depot at Lomira, Wisconsin, on March 23, 199... (more)

SD45 in 2022 'Kinda' Sitting in the ex Frisco yard in Oklahoma City is SD40m-2 NREX2761. Originally built as a 20 cylinder SD45 for the Southern in 1967, the unit was re-built as a SD40m-... (more)

CRR 3632 seen at Oak Ridge , Tn

A short TP&W intermodal train from Galesburg to East Peoria is on it's final leg as it approaches TP&W's yard.

With the sprawling Wheeling-Pittsburgh steel mill as a backdrop, an eastbound Conrail TV train rolls through Mingo Junction, Ohio. An SD45 and a GP35, both of Erie Lackawanna heritage, provide the... (more)

Santa Fe EMD SD45 No. 5341 is flanked by EMD GP7u No. 2013 and GE C30-7 8057 in front of the diesel house at the railroad’s Corwith Yard locomotive facility at Corwith, Illinois, on December 5, ... (more)

Push Up, Drift Down

Helpers move in both directions on Conrail’s main line at Bennington Curve, Pennsylvania. An SD45/SD40 pair are assisting a westbound auto parts train on Trac... (more)

Wisconsin Central train 51 thunders over the crossing with Wisconsin & Southern at Slinger, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of April 14, 1997. The structure on the right advertises locally-famous Stor... (more)

A southbound Wisconsin Central freight treads as lightly as it can through the front yards of homes lining Division Street in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on November 18, 1989. Two children head down the s... (more)

Looking straight down on the dynamic brake fans of Wisconsin Central EMD SD45 No. 6593 at the locomotive facility at Shops Yard at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on April 5, 1996.

Wisconsin Central train 46 heads southbound through rolling Wisconsin farmland at Theresa on the morning of July 20, 1996. That’s Wisconsin state highway 28 rising over the hill above the pair o... (more)

A pair of WC SD45's, led by 6553, charge across US Hwy 41 in Fond du Lac, WI as they get ready to climb Byron Hill. Helpers are still used here by the CN to get the trains over the hill.

A pair of 20-cylinder EMD SD45 locomotives haul Wisconsin Central train 49 out of Duplainville, Wisconsin, passing a blooming apple tree on the nice spring day of May 13, 1993.

Wisconsin Central train 12, powered by a trio of former Burlington Northern EMD SD45s still painted Cascade green, cruises through Van Dyne, Wisconsin, approaching North Fond du Lac on a snowy Feb... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s LM reaches the summit of Bozeman Pass, with the eight SD45/SD45-2 cradling the actual top of the grade at West End, Montana, on September 23, 2002. The point helper will stay... (more)