The WC was kind of a disappointment to me at first, with patched SDL's, GP30's, GP35's and Ex BN "Green Weenie" SD45's, but once they managed to get their act together I felt it turned into one of... (more)

Heavy traffic and cold conditions found the WC running an Extra train 35 about an hour behind the regular job on this February day. WC 584, 2401 lead 47 cars of mainly empty pulpwood gons east nea... (more)

Coal loads with MAC's 9466,9620,9671 are crawling along at 10mph as they work up Walker Hill. Not long before this 5-6 SD40-2 or C30-7/U30C's would have been powering this train.

After the Geneva ore contact was up and going SP assigned their best/newest power to service to it. That brought new GE's onto WC/DM&IR for the trip from Chicago to the Mine. Four nearly spotless ... (more)

An ex UP GP30 rebuilt with a Cat prime mover that the Soo referred to as a GP30C trails an Ex Milwaukee MP15 and a Soo SD60 on a beautiful October afternoon. These units were common around the Twi... (more)

GB&W 307 leads the Plover job east with 13 cars as it is about to duck under Highway 54 at the east end of the Wisconsin Rapids yard.

A group of out of service Baldwin RS-12's at the E&LS yard in Wells. The E&LS did quite a bit of car repair for other roads at the time and the line of boxes to the right are in for repair/recondi... (more)

Until the Groveland Mine north of Iron Mountain closed down the CNW ran the Antoine Turn on a daily basis departing Escanaba a little after 11AM. It went to Iron Mountain and swapped empties for l... (more)

Returning home from a few days in Wisconsin I was greeted with this sight on the E&LS at Marinette. The GB&W Alco was on lease and looked plenty modern compared to E&LS Baldwins 202 and 214 as uni... (more)

In the 70's and the early 80's CNW assigned many geeps to service in the Wisconsin Rapids area. They usually worked the switch/yard jobs during the day and made an Adams turn overnight. The nightl... (more)

These Ex Southern SD24's were bought by CNW through PNC and were rebuilt minus their turbo's effectively making them SD18's. They gave many years of good service in a variety of applications to th... (more)

The yellow applied to the CNW SD50/60's plus later GE's didn't respond very well to the harsh light of Wyoming and the coal service units faded very fast compared to units stationed on the eastern... (more)

As the GB&W struggled through the 80's the once perfectly maintained Alcos started to show a noticeable lack of the fine exterior finish they had been noted for. A number of them took on a more pi... (more)

Late on a May evening CNW 4253 waits for yard space at North Green Bay after spending the day working local industries. The HE15's were rebuilt from EMD GP7's at Oelwein Shops with High Efficiency... (more)

CNW Butler -Green Bay train BUGBA waits to get in the big yard at North Green Bay. It had been a pretty miserable day for photos as I had only managed an early morning shot at Escanaba and then I'... (more)