An F in the Soo's original color scheme at the Stevens Point engine facility during the winter of 67. The latter day WC adopted a scheme similar to this. The red/off white/black scheme was on the ... (more)

WC 6005,6575 roll south with train 4 near Odena. The WC often used freight units on the Snow Train as the F's were normally used on trains 1&2 to/from Hearst and also often became tied up in freig... (more)

Under a beautiful late summer sky SP 8115,8148 followed by DRGW 5358,5507 approach the west end of the big yard at North Fond du Lac. After a crew change and adding a pusher for the shove over Byr... (more)

SP 8139,8124,8103 lead a SPLD east at Neenah on a hazy fall day with 107 cars, four units seemed to be the normal on these trains, so this was a rather odd sight and another unit will no doubt be ... (more)

A spring break in 1992 found me in Cartersville for a few hours one morning. CSX managed to put a couple trains past and I shot this southbound rack train led by 8069 and 7049 passing through whil... (more)

Just about any new BN six axle power quickly made its way to the coalfields, it was and is demanding service that required the best of the best. This shot at East Alliance has nearly new SD60's 83... (more)

UP 3647, DRGW 5328 and another UP SD45 bring empties east near Helper. This photo has been in my collection but was not taken by me. No photographer information on slide.

UP 2517,2621 bark east through Plains with loads bound for the dumper in Escanaba.

Before Byron Hill was double tracked it was quite a bottleneck from East Valley at the bottom to West Byron at the top. Over the years it was just dealt with by first the Soo then WC. When traffic... (more)

With a wave from engineer Gary Drow, the WC 6636 leads ACRI 1755, 1753 and 49 cars through some marshland west of Fibre. The 6636 was part of the last group of used SD45's that WC purchased and as... (more)

CNW 4101,4549 head west with 28 cars at Rapid City. The 4101 was Ex RI while the 4549 was an original CNW unit rebuilt in 1980 at Oelwein shops. The CNW had placed some welded rail through Rapid C... (more)

Some of SP's best power roamed the WC once the Geneva ore contract was up and running. Most of the time the SP's tended to stay in ore service, but on occasion they would be cut off at North Fond ... (more)

Once upon a time in the Wyoming coal fields the term comfort cab referred to a taxi with air conditioning. Back in those second generation days power was made up of a huge amount of SD40-2's, C30-... (more)

DRGW 3116,5317,3098,3107 work upgrade toward Soldier Summit with coal loads. The trailing SD45 had overheated and shut down and this job was at a crawl.

Stored out back at Shoreham in the fall of 85 along with a few Soo SW's, the last of the Soo F's and a couple of GP30's that would not run again.