CNW bay window caboose 11134 rests in the North Fond Du Lac, WI yard with 7 mates in March of 1968. Bob Ferge original from my collection.

After Canadian National merged the Wisconsin Central in 2001, with the sale approved on September 7, 2001, some of WC’s locomotives soon found themselves gathering in storage lines. On November ... (more)

A pair of Soo Line GP9s sit around the turntable at Shops Yard at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on April 27, 1985. SOO GP9 No. 403 was a freight-hauling locomotive built in 1954, while sister No. ... (more)

Looking through the operator’s window of a motorcar sitting on the track between the roundhouse and shop at North Fond du Lac’s Shops Yard reveals Soo Line GP38-2 No. 4435 sitting quietly on t... (more)

A bright and fresh pair of ES44ACs lead this local south from Neenah as they approach the north end of Shops Yard.

A little red, white, and blue for your Independance Day. The local Quad-Lomira job readies for it's run to the south for the afternoon drop-off.

A pair of ponies lead this junk freight drag south through North Fond du Lac

A pair of rebuilt fallen-flag EMD switcher units, IC 1492 (SW14) and WC 1570 (SW1500), work the south end of CN's Shops Yard

One of the few remaining SD40-3's left in Illinois Central paint, this unit is running lite power back into Shops Yard toward the Roundhouse lead for some fuel and sand before its next assignment

Here is a GP7 with its large UDE light...this is an early GP7.

A set of power at the yard in the early morning. C&NW was the only road to have ordered SD45's without dynamic brakes. Kodachrome II film with a Miranda G camera.

Ever on the look out for more traffic the WC handled unit ballast trains for GTW for a few years. These originated near Virginia, MN and moved DWP to Duluth, WC Duluth to GTW Chicago then on to tr... (more)

SD40 square off
Two Soo Line SD40s idle in the engine facility at Shops Yard at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, in November 1984.

Tundra- Braving the elements, this BCOL Dash-8 is no stranger to cold and snow, Its just another winter night for this beast.

GP30 graveyard
On Christmas day in 1994, the contract scrappers working in Shops Yard at North Fond du Lac are nowhere to be found and surely home with their families, as are most of th... (more)