GTW 4907 and IC 3108 are in the process of running around their train, while doing some industry work in Sussex, WI on a brisk winter day.

T017 with only one unit loading properly through Rubicon. The crew gave us a pretty nice horn show as well.

A Fox River Valley Railroad freight crosses the long bridge over thin ice atop Little Lake Butte des Morts at Menasha, Wisconsin, on a cold November 18, 1989. All three of FRVR’s EMD GP30s—Nos... (more)

Wisconsin and Southern T-003 Janesville to Horicon is on the CN between Waukesha and Slinger

The 2016 edition of the Middleton Polar Express, operated by Iowa Pacific Holdings on the Wisconsin & Southern, featured ex-WSOR #10A back on home rails, along with four leased VIA domes. #103, bu... (more)

Former GN unit. Photo by unknown. From my collection.

CNW 4487 leads a local out of Appleton, WI in August of 1984. This area generated an amazing amount of business when all the paper mills were still open.

Soo Line train 205 cruises west on the former Milwaukee Road main line at Pewaukee, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of July 26, 1987. The view is from Highway J (since renamed) overpass, and this area... (more)

It's a busy day in Weyerhaeuser WI as frac sand cars at Source Energy Services are being shuffled around by GMTX 389 to make up a unit sand train. Some years earlier, the small stick rail along th... (more)

Amtrak explored the possibility of modern high-speed trains in the early 1990s, and leased two European electric trainsets for testing and revenue service on the Northeast Corridor between Washing... (more)

Heading west on the Soo Line’s former Milwaukee Road main line out of Milwaukee is a Chicago & North Western unit coal train at Pewaukee, Wisconsin, on September 6, 1994. Powering the train is C... (more)

Changing of the guard......CNW 8521 and UP 9294 (both GE C40-8's) rest at the Butler, WI engine house in October of 1995. The UP acquisition is only a few months old at this time so there is still... (more)

In 1992-93, Amtrak tested the Swedish-built X2000. The train was designed and built by Kalmar Verkstad (later merged with Asea Brown Boveri, Inc.) for the Swedish State Railways (SJ), and leased t... (more)

In 1992-93, Amtrak tested the Swedish-built X2000. The train was designed and built by Kalmar Verkstad (later merged with Asea Brown Boveri, Inc.) for the Swedish State Railways (SJ), and leased t... (more)

A quartet of Wisconsin Central EMD 20-cylinder locomotives power train 51 at Ackerville, Wisconsin, on April 16, 1997. On the lead is WC’s only FP45, No. 6652, followed by F45 No. 6656, SD45 No.... (more)