After overextending themselves acquiring Milwaukee Road, Soo Line established a wholly-owned division called Lake States Transportation Division on 10 February 1986, to operate its mostly former S... (more)

A westbound Chicago & North Western freight curves through North Lake, Wisconsin, on October 6, 1990. A pair of EMD SD40-2s in “Zito” yellow, power the train on the railroad’s Adams Line.

Let's take a pole..... In a case of who's railroad is it, UP 5284 leads a NS unit through Mt. Pleasant, WI on CP's C&M Subdivision on 5/9/22. Pole lines have become increasingly rare these days, b... (more)

With a light dusting of snow on the ground, a trio of ex-UP SD60M's lead the Wisconsin & Southern's Y302 as it departs from Janesville, Wisconsin. The train is rolling over the crossing that was o... (more)

Bound for interchange to the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway in Illinois, a southbound Wisconsin Central taconite ore train rumbles by the old Soo Line depot at Lomira, Wisconsin, on March 23, 199... (more)

Train L516, the daily train from New Brighton, MN to Stevens Point, WI runs east at sunset. The setting sun casts a warm glow but the fresh snowpack lends an arctic feel to the scene. One of the f... (more)

4 years ago the Minneapolis Sub saw a wider range of locomotive types than it does these days, including foreign road power. At dusk in a spring snowfall a UP and an NS EMD pair up on train L516, ... (more)

The local out of Bradley, WI switches the remaining customer at Prentice, WI, Biewer Sawmill. The stub that reaches the sawmill spurs is south of the original Soo Line mainline L584 took to reach ... (more)

A Golden Arrow Lines excursion on the Central Wisconsin Railroad route between Waukesha and North Prairie is passing a small grain elevator off Main Street east of Genesee Depot in August 1984. It... (more)

In a heavy snow squall, a Canadian National rock train charges north through Honey Creek with an ex-Citirail locomotive in tow.

One of the first significant snowfalls of the winter has blanketed the Minneapolis Sub. The daily train has been thrown way off schedule and would normally pass through here in the dark early morn... (more)

For the second day in a row the L574 local out of Chippewa Falls has run as far as New Richmond to spot a boxcar at the Lakeside Foods canning plant. While only one car each day, the move is notew... (more)

MILW 33A is in charge of a Hiawatha as it approaches Duplainville, WI in June of 1969. Bob Ferge image from my collection.