PGR 42 leads a string of motive power toward their yard office at Norma Yard on Chippewa Falls' eastside. Business is way down on the Wisconsin Northern shortline due to closures of all five frack... (more)

UP 4808 leads a quartet of SD70Ms on an eastbound freight from South St. Paul to Altoona as it approaches Ajax siding west of Eau Claire, WI. The flared radiators are reminiscent of Chicago & Nort... (more)

UP GP60 no. 1008 and GP40-2 1446 lug covered hoppers over the old CNW main through downtown Superior near the former station site in morning fog. Fortunately the Soo Line depot has been preserved,... (more)

CP 9617 leads a mix of GE and GMD power along the Thompson River several miles west of Spences Bridge, BC. The heavy grain train is using CN's mainline under a recent directional traffic flow agre... (more)

Surrounded by bandits, CP 1424 shows off the new look that some of those units will receive with CP's takeover of Soo Line. Arguably, Soo Line's bandit program was the worst image ever created in ... (more)

Soo Line no. 6604 and CP 5733 handle grain hoppers and other freight west at Springdale Rd. having left Milwaukee a short time earlier. They are on a portion of the old Milwaukee Road mainline nea... (more)

Defying CP ownership, a nicely paired quartet of Soo Line EMDs drew the task of hustling the Ford Fast from Milwaukee (and probably Chicago) to St. Paul the afternoon of March 3, 1996. Two Candy ... (more)

A herd of zebras was spotted out on the prairies of Manitoba in June 1986 as CN inadvertently lined up a nice sampling of GMD power at Symington Yard on Winnipeg's east side. The prize was F7A 916... (more)

CN SD50F no. 5411 leads another plus an SD40 and SD40-2W east from Boston Bar along the Fraser River crossing a short trestle over Ainsley Creek and is about to enter a short tunnel as it progress... (more)

1997 was an exciting year to be trackside along the Wisconsin Central. In addition to their own rolling museum of EMD power, frequent visitors from other railroads would show up. Here at North Fon... (more)

WC GP40 no. 3012 leads two SD45s on a southbound freight between Ackerville and Rugby Jct., WI on its way to Chicago from Fond du Lac, WI. It was delayed a bit by a meet at Marsh, north of here, ... (more)

A Chicago bound WC freight out of Shops Yard, North Fond du Lac, WI heads along Marsh siding where it will pause for a meet with a northbound intermodal train. Marsh siding was a popular meeting p... (more)

By 1997 CP's Action Red scheme was being intruded on by the so-called flag scheme, where the front initials were known as "C:P", a definite degradation of the images of CP in the past. W... (more)

A CP priority freight handling autos and other manifest races west at Springdale Rd. on snowless February 10, 1996. By 1996 CP's full ownership of Soo Line is quite evident as seen by frequent CP ... (more)

VIA Rail no. 6311, former CN FP9 no. 6529, built in May 1957, reflects on itself at Vancouver's former CN station, now used by VIA and Amtrak. The CN SW1200RS in the background was used for switch... (more)