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.

Powered by a nice pair of EMD GP30s—Nos. 716 and 703—Soo Line train 11 rumbles through Lomira, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of July 26, 1987.

Rebuilt GP30 No. 1272, known as a GP30u, that had gone through repainting in the horrid SPSF merger scheme and was restored in proper colors leads a local freight west out of the sag between Chale... (more)

Santa Fe seemed to derive more longevity out of its power than many roads - that yielded an interesting assortment of power. The road also seemed to have a fondness for four axle power that lasted... (more)

UP 842 on a southbound freight is holding at Black River Jct. siding as UP 928 leads the "Old Timers Special" deadhead equipment move past en route to Argo Yard, Seattle, where it will b... (more)

UP 842 waits in the siding at Black River Jct. in south Seattle as the last car of the UP "Old Timers Special" deadhead move rolls by.

BN 2220 runs west from Skykomish as a caboose hop opreating as a turn out of Everett, WA. The former CB&Q GP30 running GN style, long hood first on the former GN mainline, is accompanied by a form... (more)

UP GP30 842 along with a GP30B & SD24B hold at Black River Jct., Seattle, WA, while a UP deadhead move rolls by with UP E9A 951, The Preamble Express, trailing. The deadhead move will leave the fo... (more)

The repainted #501 (ex-CR/PC/PRR #2249) sits with ex-CDAC #450 (nee-AMTK #380) supplying air for the passenger train.