IC East Dubuque Local.

Merchandise Train from South St. Paul - Proviso heading south out of Black River Falls.

Loaded Unit Grain Train from Aberdeen, SD - Belt Railway of Chicago.

The IC&E Fall Colors Excursion Train heads back south towards Marquette, IA after being wyed at LaCrescent. With the impending sale to the CP, will this be the last year for these excursions?

CP 2816 and MILW 261 doubleheader taking part in the Grand Excursion 2004.

CP 2816 and MILW 261 doubleheader taking part in the Grand Excursion 2004.

Colorful heavyweight trailers add to an already colorful Intermodal Stack Train from Tacoma, WA (Pierce) - Chicago, IL (Cicero Yard). (Canon EOS20D, 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM)

Gone.....but not forgotten. Along the IC&E Marquette Subdivision can be found tags from all former owners of this line: MILW, SOO and IMRL. The next engine to go north over the Upper Iowa River ... (more)

Alaska RR engines 3002 and 3005 delivered by the WSOR to the BNSF at Crawford near Prairie du Chien, WI. The BNSF La Crosse East Local will pick these engines up and take them back to La Crosse, ... (more)

Westbound Freight Train M33791-24 goes past the CNIC passenger special on its way into the yard.

Something I will never see again: a WC GP40 leading an empty BNSF coal train from Dubuque, IA - Waterloo, IA.

With fall colors at their peak, 270 heads south from Marquette on a perfect October morning. With rain and wind forecasted for the remainder of the week, it is doubtful the color will last much l... (more)

The knowledge that one of the new CN (ex-Up, nee C&NW) C40-8 engines was leading M33791 led me on a 2 1/2-hour trip to capture what is likely the first time one of these engines is leading on this... (more)

Daily freight train from Waterloo, IA, to Centralia, IL.