It's 2009? Today, the WC Transfer has an actual WC engine, and to top it off, an Orange and Blue GTW leader! But ofcourse, nothing is what it seems. The WC 3024 is dead and drained, oil everywhere... (more)

The sound of EMD at work on the railroad may be disappearing slowly but at least today the worn & weary geep is providing faithful service, drilling the yard in Freeport.

CN switcher returns to Dubuque

This is a GP9R

GTW GP38-2 4927 and an IC GP40 make for a great set of yard power as they head back north to tie onto a cut of cars.

CN local making a set out on the House track and will be shortly on its way.

With no DME running and the CN local out with a GP9 had to do it.

CN switcher moves cars into Cargill

To see what he was pulling, click on photo #255803. The C&O had their own switcher on the Wisconsin side of the lake akin to GTW, see Tom Farence's photo of it Railroad: Grand Trunk Western
Locomotive: EMD SW9
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Locomotive #: GTW 7231
Train ID: carferry switch
Photo Date: June 11, 1968

Dubque switcher rolls into East Dubuque

Dubque switcher pulls 4 cars from Cargill

GTW 4901 leads CN 391 out of the yard in Durand and around the Port Huron Wye in front of the depot.

GTW 6205 and 6424 sit at the east end of Battle Creek waiting to head east.

GTW GP38-2 5849, still wearing its Pittsburgh & Lake Erie paint, sits at the diesel shop in Battle Creek.