By the winter of 1987 getting many photos of Soo trains in Upper Michigan had become difficult. The few trains that still operated after the rerouting of the COFC traffic onto CSX rails from Detro... (more)

LS&I 2501, 2304, 2300 arriving at the east end of Eagle Mills yard with 120 empties. The LS&I was a riot of color in the 80's with a few units remaining in the solid "ore dust brown" along with q... (more)

A late running CN 412 works west past Caffey with IC 6106, CN 9590 and CN 6901 leading a long train. At the time I can remember thinking "another SD40", for someone who grew up with them it seems ... (more)

DMIR 407,401 with Northshore Mining 1211 along for the ride move through Iron Junction during the late evening.

Near Northland siding the 1756 pilots the Hearst train north on a comfortable July morning.

Quite a bit of pool power ran into North Fond du Lac during the WC/CN era. Normally the pool power seemed to consist of modern six axle units. In this case the NSFDA is passing Byron with WC 7519 ... (more)

It seemed that owing to the GB&W's loyalty to Alco's that a number of the paper mills served by or in close proximity to the GB&W employed Alco units. It had been been a chilly morning in central ... (more)

Squealing around a tight corner near Northland the 1754 comes flying out of the bush with train 1 on the early portion of its all day jaunt from Sault Ste. Marie to Hearst.

Milw 261 leads a BNSF employee special westbound near Glendive. The big 4-8-4 put on quite a show on this clear summer morning.

WC 2003, AC 1753, WC 6586 head 71 cars west near Caffey. Spring is in the air but it will be weeks before things start to green up in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

After the WC bought the FRV/GBW they inherited a rather diverse group of units in the takeover. The ex GBW Alcos were parked ASAP and the FRV GP7/9/30/35's along with the pair of SD24's and single... (more)

CP 8839 in a dusty but classic paint scheme awaits another assignment at Revelstoke. Photo has been in my collection for years, no photographer listed on slide.

Back when I used to spend considerable time in Northern Ontario the CP always had a fair amount of units assigned to Sudbury. Sudbury had a lot of heavy industry and required a few units to work t... (more)

CP had for the longest time assigned yard goats 7099 and 8171 to Sault Ste. Marie. They spent most of there time working heavy loads of steel out of Algoma Steel and making transfer runs with long... (more)

BN C424 4241 leads three SD45's on what I would guess is WP track in Northern California. No Information on slide as far as location or photographer. Slide has been in my collection for years.