Wisconsin Central EMD F45 No. 6654 leads WC train 2 through Waukesha, Wisconsin, on a sunny March 13, 2023. This cowl locomotive is the former Santa Fe No. 5965, then recently purchased by WC.

A bitter cold winter day has caused a rail break on the Wisconsin Central main line entering Shops Yard near the Subway Road grade crossing at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on December 11, 1994. T... (more)

Wisconsin Central train No. 2 trundles through Van Dyne, Wisconsin, on the pretty afternoon of November 6, 1994. The train is powered by a pair of SD45s, Nos. 6587 and 6677.

The bitter cold can play havoc on track. Here, two Wisconsin Central trackmen fix broken track bolts that were sheared off by the contracting rail in a “pull apart.” A kerosene-soaked rope is ... (more)

A call the previous evening had alerted us to this train being powered by a pair of F's. The F's had languished in storage most of the summer and were supposedly not to be ran again. Somehow this ... (more)