On Chicago & North Western’s Adams Line, a C&NW potash extra heads eastbound through North Lake, Wisconsin, on a wintery March 22, 1992.

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)

A BNSF grain train crosses the Clark Fork on Bridge 208 west of Donlan, Montana, while working west over Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision on October 6, 2020.

Pastureland along Montana Rail Link’s Harrison branch is verdant green on June 22, 2015, as MRL’s 844 local brings three covered hoppers upgrade to the Harrison Elevator Company at the end of ... (more)

Chicago & North Western train 569 curves through Wales, west of Waukesha, Wisconsin, in August 1983, powered by a trio of EMD GP7 locomotives. Early the following year, C&NW abandoned this line fr... (more)

Green Bay & Western train 2 crosses a bridge parallel to a dam on the Black River that forms Lake Arbutus at Hatfield, Wisconsin, on December 5, 1992. The train is pulled by a quartet of GB&W Alco... (more)

Heading southwesterly on the Burlington Northern Fourth Subdivision main line from Galesburg to West Quincy (and eventually, Kansas City) is a BN freight at Saluda, Illinois, on August 27, 1989. T... (more)

Built in 1874 by the Rio Grande, the shops and yard at Burnham, located a couple of miles south of downtown Denver, Colorado, were the main shop facilities for the railroad. In this later view on ... (more)

A Soo Line freight bursts through some snow at a highway grade crossing at Hartland, Wisconsin, on its journey west on the former Milwaukee Road main line on a snowy January 21, 1993.

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)

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)

BNSF’s Chewelah Turn follows the snowy edge of a frozen Loon Lake at Loon Lake, Washington, on the morning of February 4, 2022. Powering the train is 5 unit set of EMD GP60-series locomotives, w... (more)

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy EMD E5 No. 9911-A and the Nebraska Zephyr Budd-built streamliner trainset curves over the top of Byron Hill at Byron, Wisconsin, on September 30, 1993. This classy Zep... (more)

A northbound Fox River Valley Railroad freight passes a Wisconsin dairy farm south of Eden on August 30, 1992. The train is powered by the road’s pair of EMD SD24s bracketing an EMD SD35, along ... (more)