The WC was blessed with some slow running street trackage getting through Oshkosh, it was a left over from the former Soo main that became a major bottleneck as business boomed. The street trackag... (more)

A quiet morning in old town Lehi is shattered by the passage of Union Pacific's Geneva, Utah to Minntac, Minnesota ore empty (with a cut of general freight on the head end).

The MRL kept power roaming on the BNSF early 1998 with the startup of IMRL to keep it in position for the startup. Here a pair of flares power this autorack train towards Chicago as it passes theu... (more)

A Mason City to Marquette Turn passes MP 8 near Spook Cave. The last 14 miles on the IMRL 4th Sub between Monona and Marquette winds and crosses Blood Run Creek as they drop into the Mississippi R... (more)

On the Tennessee Pass route, three D&RGW GP40-2's have Tempo ski train cars in tow along the Arkansas River through Brown Canyon near Salida, Colo. The cars were lettered "Pacific Rim RR" and we... (more)

Apache Railway #98 leads the weekly coal train through S curve just outside of Snowflake. Every week the Catalyst Paper Mill, the Apache Railway's owner, required one of these coal trains to maint... (more)

Freshly painted 6718 leads 6709 and 56 cars of the Escanaba-Green Bay freight east near Daggett.

Reading 6301 at Elizabethport with a couple CNJ units in the background. Slide is in my collection and was either purchased or traded for years ago. No photographer listed on slide.

Under new management and with the changing face of New England Central Railroad's motive power close at hand, consists led by blue and gold GP38s are soon to be a thing of the past. On January 9,... (more)

On March 5, 1993, Southern Pacific train KCOAF (with GP60 9606) passes the helpers of train OACHF with GP40-2 no 7245 on the rear, in Soda Springs, CA.

The bright red nose of Soo 4407 brings some color to a dreary spring day at Negaunee. This 15 car westbound had struggled up Marquette hill on the wet rail and then had been held at this signal fo... (more)

Union Pacific's CSLAT (See-Slat) roars west with a cut of Farmer John stock cars near Rush Lake at Stockton, Utah.

The pair of ex FRV SD24's that came to the WC often found themselves working in Upper Michigan. Late on a humid July evening the 2401 is has been swapped out with the 2402 for use on the Newberry ... (more)

If you like Cascade Green and SD40-2s then this is the train for you.

The end of an era, this would be CN 435's last regular trip down the Bala Subdivision. Due to an extra track installation at Aldershot, 435 will no longer be taking the southerly Don Valley/Lakesh... (more)