WC 3005, AC 1754, WC 3014,3023,6595 roll SOGBA through Gilchrist with an overpowered 37 car train as spring nears in Upper Michigan. This was the normal location for the AC F's for the few years t... (more)

Soo 6613 leads geeps 408,553 east on train 910 with 39 cars. Engineer Larry St. Martin has just notched out the power as the train climbs out of a sag and the 6613 kicks out a little smoke.

Soo 755 and 4411 on train 909 pass through Gilchrist with 75 cars. December is normally a very cloudy month in Upper Michigan and when you add in the fact that it gets down to less than nine hours... (more)

CNW's lone RS-11 has been in the roundhouse for a little work and now is getting a test run with a couple machinists and a hostler on board near the roundhouse at Escanaba. When the smaller 4 axle... (more)

Until the 1989 purchase of C40-8's for coal service the CNW had a very limited amount of success with GE products. The handful of 1968 U30C's were not held in high favor on the CNW. Most of the ti... (more)

CNW 1768 on the PM switch job crosses a small trestle as it heads from the roundhouse to the yard for an evening of work. The nice looking unit in good paint was rebuilt and renumbered in November... (more)

WC 6625 and 2553 kick up the snow as they race west at Rudyard with a head-end fill of paper loads and kaolin tanks along with the Tilden empties.

By the Spring of 1986 if not sooner it was becoming obvious that the CNW Alco fleet that had called the ore lines home since 1974-1975 was living on borrowed time. The CNW had SD50's on the prope... (more)

The lighting is terrible but this is the last time I ever seen the Ex D&H Sharks in the light of day. They were being moved from the E&LS roundhouse at Wells to the building the E&LS was leasing/b... (more)

Shooting GBW train #1 crossing into Minnesota at Winona was normally a non-event. It usually landed around daybreak and it would be coming right out of the sun. A late running train plus a cloudy ... (more)

CNW 6706 rests at the end of a long string of stored C628's in the new ore yard at Escanaba. After being stored in December of 1986 the Alcos spent quite awhile in the number six ore yard with der... (more)

CNW 6713 at Adams still in its N&W blue paint. Photo has been part of my collection for years. No photographer listed on slide. My guess is it was shot by the late Joe Stauber.

Milwaukee Road SD40-2 184 had already lost its nose herald as it waits for assignment at the old Milwaukee Road roundhouse at La Crosse.

About 7 miles west of Escanaba on the line to Powers the CNW crosses the Ford River on this bridge. Alcos 6703,6727,and 6704 are hustling the Antoine turn west toward the Milwaukee connection at I... (more)

CN 5533, WC 3021,3012 have the ore and general freight of train 411 rolling along near Dafter. Since this photo things have changed quite a bit as far as power goes in Upper Michigan. Gone are the... (more)