WSOR Christmas train returns to Madison skimming along Lake Wisconsin some 25 miles away.

A pair of SOO geep-30s with their distinctive trucks heads north at sunset, ready to cross the canal enroute to Schiller Park.

Pacing the QJs across Iowa as they head to storage at Newton.

Look what showed up in Madison.

I'm standing on the old CA&E right-of-way looking down at UP 3985 eastbound on track 1.

UP steam special is out of Butler headed back to West Chicago on the old CNW freight belt around Milwaukee.

A CP run-through is on the CSX framed by the old Pere Marquette coal tower still standing at New Buffalo.

SOO manifest gets ready to leave Nahant.

SOO drag passes the old DRI&NW Union Depot in Davenport. This depot seems to be a design sister to the CB&Q depot in LaCrosse, WI. CB&Q was part owner of the Dri-Line.

UP steam heads north to Milwaukee over the old CNW "new line".

With my camera lens pressed through the chain link fence I manage to squeeze off a shot before the train backs out to the main and departs.

CP run-throughs were the predominant traffic over this CSX route but not anymore. Here's a meet just west of the yard in Wyoming at a location known as "Lamar".

CP westbound run-through over the St. Joe River bridge shines in the afternoon sun, crossing from Benton Harbor into St. Joeseph. In weeks the boat slips and parking spots will be filled.

WSOR Job M3, on the way out of town for a chilly night's work on the Watertown sub, passes long after the park goers have found warmer places.

This is the view down the throat of the WSOR Madison yard formerly known as Monona Yard in CNW days. Job M3's Conductor walks the train prior to departure, tonight they'll work the Watertown sub.