A Soo Line grain extra storms westbound through Brookfield, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of April 19, 1987. When built in July 1973, Milwaukee Road EMD SD40-2 No. 16, was originally numbered 177, b... (more)

Hampshire, Illinois is as far east as this Extra East will make it, as an obviously tired crew waits for the taxi. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

Things you don't see much any more: a real MILW unit, SD40-2 on a class 1, a 2-digit second-genration unit, a single road engine on a train, a consist of only boxes.