On a humid, scorching, late August day that smelled oh so much of paper mill the 315 and 312 arrive at the west end of the Wisconsin Rapids terminal with 60 cars. The 315 was my favorite GB&W unit... (more)

Soo 4402,555 work out of the west end of the Gilchrist siding and over County Road H40. After getting back on the main the rear end crew will realign the switch for the main and this job will be o... (more)

Milw. 70C,70B,63A rest in Iron Mountain while the crew talks over a track issue with the section foreman. They no doubt had a lot to talk about as deferred maintenance was becoming an issue on mos... (more)

UP 7136,6619 roll along the west bank of the Mississippi with westbound coal empties.

UP 305,CNW 5057,UP 2863,3198,2816 scream east with 80 cars a few miles out of the big yard at North Platte. The 305 was just roaring and I figure she would toss her cookies at any time as I gave c... (more)

UP 2829,2943,2417,3139,3195 have coal loads in tow as they arrive at Cheyenne.

UP 1852 is working the Provo Yard. A rebuild to a SW10 wasn't far in this units future.

UP's GP30 fleet was getting pretty thin when I shot the 824 on an eastbound local working Kearney in June of 87.

UP had a fair number of big U30C's on the roster, they normally seemed to find there way into coal service in the 70's. The 2879,2813 have a loaded train of UP hoppers eastbound near Cozad.

North Platte was quite the happening place railroad wise in the 70's. Pool power from about everyone was all over the place. Most days it wasn't uncommon to see CNW, MILW, SLSF, BN, RI, IC, NW, WP... (more)

A normal 70's freight departs North Platte for the east at 8:15AM with UP 3420,2930,3119 heading a lot of general freight with a few TOFC mixed in. The boxcar and mechanical reefer still held an i... (more)

I don't know the train number but VIA 6511 paused by the North Bay station with a short five car westbound in the Spring of 1988. The train could have been the Montreal section of the Canadian but... (more)

Milw 555 passes the Grand Crossing tower at the east end of Milwaukee's La Crosse yard. I think this job was called the Portage Patrol, but it was a long time ago and things are getting pretty haz... (more)

The La Crosse PM switch job powered by a SW-1 works the east end of the yard near the Grand Crossing interlocking. The CNW geep is working a part of the remaining CNW track in the area that made i... (more)

Milwaukee Road 2060,2058,1003,2065 have 54 car westbound rolling along between Medary and Grand Crossing. The GP30 in the set didn't seem all that common at the time and the 30's would soon be ret... (more)