A former Soo Line GP30 leads a colorful string of cars after a fresh Wisconsin snowfall. Tom Kidd photo.

Priority intermodal traffic moves east through Elm Grove, WI on CP's former MILW mainline from St. Paul to Chicago. The double track mainline separates here for a few miles due to this having been... (more)

Soo Line 6019 is eastbound at Elm Grove, WI in January of 1990. The switch in the foreground is for the Airline secondary line to Milwaukee.

An SD60 slams through Elm Grove with an eastbound.

A quartet of SD40s hum downhill through Elm Grove with a loaded whiskey train snaking behind.

A standard CP lashup is large and in charge of a short manifest as they pass under the UP Milwaukee Subdivision.

Two Hockey Stick SOO SD60s bring Coke Loads towards Milwaukee, where the CN will make the run in to pick them up and take them to Green Bay.

This CSXT Potash train was the last train my little Nikon D40 captured (in good light) before taking a fatal 9 inch fall. Now, camera-less, I must find a replacement before I miss out on the autum... (more)

A NS SD70M and a lease unit lead a second 283 train west under Union Pacific's Milwaukee Subdivision and out of Milwaukee for points west.

A empty ethanol train heads back west to have its tanks filled back up and shipped out again.

A lone GE is giving everything it has to drag its train west up the hill and west out of Milwaukee for Portage.

A short Union Pacific local trundles west towards New Berlin Wisconsin, to switch out a couple remaining customers on the line. With the not so great trackwork along the whole line 10mph makes for... (more)

Number 1 has no problem leading the train as they begin to head up the hill at Elm Grove Wi.

For most, a storm cell passing over and casting clouds down would be a nuisance. However, for the chasers of MILW 261, it was a relief from constant backlighting and allowed for some brief even li... (more)