The last rays of sun lights the nose of WC 3005 as it highballs west out of Trout Lake with an IC GP40 and mixed freight. It was a bitterly cold windy evening and I was back in the car before the ... (more)

WC 3012 leads the two operational ACR F9B's and SD45 6579 eastbound at Trout Lake.

WC 6653,1761,2005 work uphill out of Trout Lake with a heavy SOGB.

A nearly new SD40-2 works the Mead Paper landing at Trout Lake with GP9 412. The Soo and later WC hauled a lot of pulp out of Trout Lake over the years to the Mead mill located in North Escanaba. ... (more)

Unlike Soo Line employees who almost unanimously detested GE U30C's, the WC employees(a fairly large percentage of which had worked for other RR's and were more accustomed to U-boats) didn't seemi... (more)

CN 9455, IC 6066, WC 3011 eastbound with train 411 and 109 cars kicking up a pretty good amount of snow dust at MP 454 east of Trout Lake. After the CN takeover the WC's Upper Michigan lines seen ... (more)

Shot 18 years ago tomorrow, its hard to imagine where the time has went but this was the railroading I grew up with and enjoyed. WC 6655 and 6601 sift through fresh snow as they make there way eas... (more)

The Ex ACR GP7's arrived on the WC in fairly good shape and most were ran through North Fond du Lac for a chopped nose and WC paint within a few months of the merger. This is 1502 showing off its ... (more)

Train 909's power has cut off and is slowly backing into the yard at Trout Lake to make a pick up. Perfect time to catch the trailing Milwaukee SD in bright April sun on fresh snow. Power consists... (more)

A couple of rare birds power WC plow 315 at Trout Lake. SD24 2401 and SDL39 589 have had there work cut out for them coming down from Munising. After running around the wye the units back toward t... (more)

WC 3005, AC 1752, WC 6610 roll toward Gladstone with 47 cars of mainly ACR connection freight on a sunny and warm November afternoon. The ACR FP9's spent a considerable amount of time in freight s... (more)

WC 6004 and 6626 head ore loads east at MP 454 on a cold sunny February morning.

Milwaukee Road 186 and 196 lead a short 21 car 911 into a bright sunset that has cast a golden glow on the grimy lead unit. Train 911 is now nothing more than the only daily westbound job on the S... (more)

The fall of 79 found the Soo power short and they leased a few CR U-boats to help solve the problem for a couple of months. Mostly U25C's were leased although I did spot this U33C in my hometown. ... (more)

DMIR units normally could be found working on the WC almost year round after the WC started to snare a substantial amount of all rail ore runs from Duluth to connections in Chicago. These were mos... (more)