For my 1,000th picture on RP.net I really wanted to do something a little special. Just about every Montreal River photo I ever took on the ACR/WC had a little story to go along with it due to the... (more)

A Minoreca load is on the home stretch heading for the dumper at Escanaba as it passes through Wilson just after sunrise on a bitter January morning. The frost covered power consists of WC 6573, 6... (more)

Milwaukee Road 101A leads a F7B and E9 along with what I would assume is the Afternoon Hiawatha at New Lisbon. Photo has been in my collection, no photographer listed on slide.

A westbound Minoreca train threads through Powers with WC 6587, 6592, LS&I 3002 powering 83 empties. A CNW crew has brought the train over from Escanaba and will be getting a taxi ride home from H... (more)

WC 6633, 2252,6597,6507,6655 rolls south through the Northern Ontario bush south of Perry. The Wawa mine was only a few days from permanent closure and by this time a separate ore load was seldom ... (more)

A short ore load rounds a sharp curve north of Heyden, This train only had 21 cars which was about half the normal size at the time. ACR veteran 1505 leads ATSF 5972 and WC 6560.

BN 4368 with a C425 and another C636 darken the sky in this photo from my collection. No photographer is listed and also no location. I have been told this photo was shot south of Oroville, CA on ... (more)

The ore loads from Wawa drop downgrade just south of Northland. Powering this late evening southbound is 6677, ATSF 5972, 6627, 6519. There is also a head end cut of pulp that was picked up on the... (more)

The Ex ACR GP7's stayed close to home for the most part in the first few months after the WC merger. A few wandered into Upper Michigan but that was about as far as they managed to get in the firs... (more)

The WC/Ex ACR lines in Upper Michigan and Ontario remained a time machine for most of the 90's. Power was an awesome combination of just about everything EMD ever made in the 50's through the 70's... (more)

Soo train 912 with 130 cars powered by 2228A,2501C,2500C rolls east near Trout Lake. The 2228A had been damaged in a derailment and lost it's upper headlight which resulted in this rather strange ... (more)

CP M636's 4708,4736.4729 work east through Hager with train 936. At the time 936 was a Winnipeg-St. Luc job that did much local work along the Northern Ontario corridor. CP's big 6 axle M-Liners w... (more)

The owner has changed but the scene pretty much looks the same for a little while at least. CN had bought the WC the prior fall, but the SD45 fleet continued to roll off the miles for CN. Un-rebui... (more)

CNW 6730,6715,6707 rumble away from a lunch break at Little Lake with 115 loads. Some jointed rail still remained on the ore line at the time, but it was soon replaced with ribbon rail which smoot... (more)

AC 1756 leads 1750,1754,1755,1751 and 25 cars of train 4 south of Heyden. The light was fading fast on this late running canyon tour and I was trying for a different location when my world was sud... (more)