After the WC bought the GBW/FRV the pair of SD24's from FRV found a home in Upper Michigan. Normally they prowled the ex DSS&A lines where they seemed well suited to muscling trains of pulpwood/fo... (more)

DM&IR SD9's roamed the WC lines in Upper Michigan very often during WC's early years, sometimes leased and other times paying back hp hours from the steady flow of WC units onto the DM&IR that pow... (more)

WC 589, 6581 pass through a small sunny spot east of Trout Lake. Fall photography in Michigan's Upper Peninsula can be quite a challenge with lots of lake effect clouds popping up in a relatively ... (more)

IC 2464, WC 3012, CN 9591 roll train 412 through Caffey on a early spring afternoon. Some of the ex LMS leasers that were shared with CR still roam CN in tattered CR blue.

WC 6553,588 rumble through the yard at Trout Lake on a bright winter morning. Train OTIAC has 35 loads of Taconite bound for Sault Ste. Marie, ON.

Late in the WC era the Munising branch became home mainly to GP40's. Most of the older power that had been used was moved away from this remote location. This shot has 3000 leading 27 cars as it b... (more)

A late afternoon train 35 has arrived at Trout Lake during a Mid December snow shower. A little work will be done in the yard and then the 713,3011 and 585 will be off eastbound with a short train... (more)

After waiting out a meet with a westbound, WC 5956, 5334 have a train of Auburn natural ore bound for interchange to the EJ&E on the move. This was one of a number of trainloads of raw ore moved b... (more)

Right near the end of a great Sept. afternoon of train watching at Grand Crossing tower the BN 1923 heads back into N. La Crosse yard with a local switch job. BN kept Geeps around in local/switchi... (more)

One of the largest shippers on the WC in Upper Michigan was the Mead Paper mill located in North Escanaba. It was served a couple times a day by the Gladstone yard jobs. Here a freshly painted WC ... (more)

After a long cloud filled chase I was finally able to get this job in full sun at Larch. This was the first connection used by the WC to gain access to the former CNW ore lines around Escanaba. Th... (more)

A very clean CNW GE awaits assignment at Escanaba.

GN 325 leads an eastbound that I would assume is the Empire Builder near Inverness, MT. Scanned from an Ektachrome transparency that is part of my collection but was not shot by me. No photographe... (more)

WC 6650,590 round the big curve west of Dafter with 61 loads of pellets headed for Sault Ste. Marie.

WC 6593 leads a pair of GP40's west through an extremely heavy snow squall just west of Trout Lake. The CN merger had happened a couple months before but solid WC consists in old WC territory were... (more)