With her massive propellers popping above the surface, 1000 feet of self unloading bulk carrier take winter leave in Milwaukee while the salt rush grinds on below. Weird finding another vehicle th... (more)
A nice 40/60 combo work their empty whiskey train under the UP Milwaukee Sub.
A very "Dark Future" consist rolls east out of Wyocena around a superelevated curve.
My very first BNSF MAC came in the form of the Columbia Coal train today. Here a faded H2 MAC works towards the southern end of the yard tracks as steam rises from the plant's lake.
Though the era of the SOO Line SD60 has come to a close with the last units having gone into CAD to become CP SD60s, the Soo isn't completely gone.....yet. Candy Apple and Bandit team up with 4 ca... (more)
About 30 seconds before clouds would move in for the rest of the afternoon, 281 rolls through the Amtrak station at the 10mph speed limit. Nice to see a big shiny EMD lashup again!
Two ACs haul a quartet of DIT lease units back to their master through a wealthy neighborhood in Brookfield, the houses behind me and to the left cost well over 1 million dollars. With the economy... (more)
With the snow still falling, the sun tries to make an appearance as former CNW 6909 leads the daily autorack train west through 'Tosa. A nice break in the flow of constant GEs is appreciated!
The classy looking INRD MACs haul a CP freight as Milwaukee looms in the background.
With a plume of steam rising from somewhere in Ixonia, a pair of CP GEs haul cans east at Cooney Siding.
After a light snowfall overnight, a Hiawatha Service train makes every bit of 79mph on it's way south out of Milwaukee.
A standard CP lashup is large and in charge of a short manifest as they pass under the UP Milwaukee Subdivision.
ICE and DME used to rule the CP Watertown sub back in the summer of 2012, but now, "Blue and Yellows", and in fact all SD40-2s have become scarce. Here a nice lashup rolls around the curves on des... (more)
With a GEVo at each end, 298 eases into Milwaukee.
On an unseasonably warm afternoon, a pair of ES44ACs sling west around a curve on a approach to Nashotah Siding.
