4 years ago the Minneapolis Sub saw a wider range of locomotive types than it does these days, including foreign road power. At dusk in a spring snowfall a UP and an NS EMD pair up on train L516, ... (more)

The local out of Bradley, WI switches the remaining customer at Prentice, WI, Biewer Sawmill. The stub that reaches the sawmill spurs is south of the original Soo Line mainline L584 took to reach ... (more)

A Golden Arrow Lines excursion on the Central Wisconsin Railroad route between Waukesha and North Prairie is passing a small grain elevator off Main Street east of Genesee Depot in August 1984. It... (more)

In a heavy snow squall, a Canadian National rock train charges north through Honey Creek with an ex-Citirail locomotive in tow.

One of the first significant snowfalls of the winter has blanketed the Minneapolis Sub. The daily train has been thrown way off schedule and would normally pass through here in the dark early morn... (more)

For the second day in a row the L574 local out of Chippewa Falls has run as far as New Richmond to spot a boxcar at the Lakeside Foods canning plant. While only one car each day, the move is notew... (more)

MILW 33A is in charge of a Hiawatha as it approaches Duplainville, WI in June of 1969. Bob Ferge image from my collection.

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Five minutes before sunset on April 5, 1996, Wisconsin Central F45 No. 6653, along with a trio of SD45s, crosses the Rock River as it rolls train 49 through the marshland... (more)

Crossing a bridge over Highway 45, a Wisconsin Central local switches at Valley, on the south side of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of April 14, 1997. WC EMD GP7 No. 1508 is a former Al... (more)

A pair of big EMDs lead L519 east along the Barron Sub in northwestern Wisconsin. Once part of the original Soo Line main from Minneapolis to Sault Ste. Marie, MI the track is now essentially a br... (more)

SOO 1003 is arriving at the Brandon station with a freight train.

Since the New Richmond Autoport facility opened last year most of the traffic has been delivered by the daily train L517. On rare occasions there will be an extra 517 that runs ahead of L517 and t... (more)

An extra auto rack train has recently terminated at New Richmond. GTW heritage unit 8952 trailed CN 2272 on the way here but basked in the sun briefly once the crew went off duty and the power was... (more)

A short Wisconsin & Southern train heads west at Randolph, Wisconsin, on May 5, 1997. Powering the four-car train on the railroad’s Horicon to Cambria line is WSOR No. 4326, a former Chicago & N... (more)

L517 slows down to switch the Autoport west of New Richmond.