BN 1941 and 1891 at Bemidji in this shot from my collection. With the huge amount of units from NP/GN/CB&Q/SP&S that BN inherited on merger day in 1970 it was a number of years until they all ende... (more)

DMIR 155 and WC 587 work the yard at Trout Lake getting train 43's 46 cars in order before departing for Marquette on a sunny March afternoon. The crew for 43 tied up in Trout Lake at the time and... (more)

Caffey, Michigan consists of a short siding and a handful of residences, most now used as cabins. On occasion pulp/logs are loaded there for transport west but for the most part the biggest action... (more)

A clean WSOR Geep leads a not so spiffy ex SP GP35 west on WC trackage rights near Ackerville.

The early WC had a few SW1200's from SP that were generally assigned to Stevens Point, North Fond du Lac and Gladstone. The 2260 is getting train 12 put together on the west end of Gladstone Yard ... (more)

BN 5553, KCS 642, BN 5022 along with KCS 666, 620 thunder east with coal loads at Igloo. On this hot May morning the name Igloo didn't fit the location very well.

WC 2004, AC 1762, WC 6596 lead GBSOA away from Trout Lake with 47 cars. The ex ACR GP38-2 is looking fine in nearly spotless condition on this late August day.

BN's Pacific Northwest power consisted of Alco's, F's, geeps and early second generation EMD's when I was there in 1979. Here the 2522 and 4260 are going to be added to the wall of Alco's behind t... (more)

La Crosse in the summer usually has high humidity and the days often start out fairly foggy or just with a milky sky. This early morning shot of 6618, 8099, 8015 and 6446 leading 56 cars of train ... (more)

Ever on the look out for more traffic the WC handled unit ballast trains for GTW for a few years. These originated near Virginia, MN and moved DWP to Duluth, WC Duluth to GTW Chicago then on to tr... (more)

A pair of BN GP30's still in the CB&Q's fantastic paint scheme rest at Pasco. Photo from my collection traded for years ago. No photographer listed on slide.

These ex N&W SD35's were reworked by the Soo at Shoreham and spent quite a few years on the Soo leased from EMD, filling in as needed during power crunches. They also found there way onto WC durin... (more)

WC handled quite a few CP detours over the years through Upper Michigan but CN ones were much more uncommon and could have been counted on the fingers of one hand. This west coast-Montreal train w... (more)

Labor problems on the Soo/CSX sent CPR Montreal-Chicago traffic back onto its former route through Upper Michigan for a few days in April 1991. This westbound is getting ready to depart Soo Yard w... (more)

F's 1750,1756,1755 lead the Agawa Canyon tour train south near Odena on a hazy, warm July day.