The morning Chicago to St. Paul hotshot is less than 20 miles from the next crew change at LaCrosse. The train skirts the Mississippi River as they pass thru Genoa. The Genoa power plant is in the... (more)

The "east local" out of La Crosse rumbles down the Aurora Sub near Genoa. The train will do some cabbing work with dead trains ahead and also local work to Savanna. A couple of easy roll... (more)

Cowl along the Mississippi: Led by EMD SD60F No. 5528, Canadian National train 385 cruises along the Mississippi River on Burlington Northern’s (actually early BNSF by this time) double track ma... (more)

Canadian National EMD SD40 No. 5013 leads eastbound CN train 340 through Genoa, Wisconsin, on Burlington Northern’s main line along a frozen Mississippi River on February 27, 1993.

*No Drone Required* The wide breadth of the adjacent Mississippi River makes BNSF's H NTWGAL9 06A look rather small as the 82-car train of mixed freight from Minneapolis-Northtown coasts downgr... (more)

LMX 8571 leads a train along the Mississippi River near Genoa, WI on a hazy day in July of 1996.

Burlington Northern train No. 110 cruises long the mighty Mississippi River at Genoa, Wisconsin, on October 15, 1995. The train is powered by EMD SD40-2 No. 7013, with a Santa Fe GP60B and BN GP10... (more)

Burlington Northern train No. 2 approaches the town of Genoa, Wisconsin, along the Mississippi River on a pleasant autumn day of October 7, 1989. The train is pulled by a pair of Cascade green EMD... (more)

BNSF 5308 races through fog after re-crewing its train at North La Crosse at Genoa, WI. The southwestern corner of the state of Wisconsin was once known for its tobacco industry.

The CN haulage trains that ran over the BN in the 90's featured some interesting power for me as a young kid. Didn't see alot of Canadian power til these trains started running. Here the westbound... (more)

An eastbound loaded taconite train is on the wrong main as they work out of LaCrosse towards Prairie du Chien. Here the train passes thru Genoa, about 20 miles of LaCrosse. This section of thew Au... (more)

Burlington Northern train 2 speeds eastward (southward at this location) out of Genoa, Wisconsin, on October 12, 1991. Lead locomotive is former Great Northern GP35 No. 3021, rebuilt by EMD in 198... (more)

The Northtown Yard to Galesburg manifest train races along the Mississippi River as they pass over a small bridge to some back water near Genoa. The train is about 20 miles south of LaCrosse.

A DPU works to keep the train moving into a head wind.

As freezing rain and sheet comes down, and eastbound freight train is about to pass thru Genoa. The Aurora Sub between Savanna and La Crosse is mainly protected by an ABS signal system. It is a co... (more)