An eastbound Wisconsin & Southern passenger train passes the wye at Mazomanie, Wisconsin, while traveling the former Milwaukee Road line from Prairie du Chien to Madison on May 19, 1996.

From 1987 to 1990, Wisconsin & Southern operated a luxury dinner train called “Scenic Rail Dining” from North Milwaukee to Horicon, Wisconsin. On May 9, 1987, WSOR EMD E9 No. 10C leads a test ... (more)

A Wisconsin & Southern inspection train heads south through Waukesha, Wisconsin, in July 29, 1997. The classy train is using Wisconsin Central trackage rights to travel from Rugby Junction to Gran... (more)

A chartered passenger train called the “Bill Gates Special,” utilizing Wisconsin & Southern, BNSF and privately-owned equipment, rolls through Crescent, Colorado, on Union Pacific’s former R... (more)

A chartered passenger train dubbed the “Bill Gates Special” utilizing Wisconsin & Southern, BNSF and privately-owned equipment, pops out of the Moffat Tunnel on Union Pacific’s former Rio Gr... (more)

A charter passenger train dubbed the “Bill Gates Special” cruises through Broomfield on the BNSF’s Front Range Subdivision on September 25, 1998. The classy train was made up of mostly BNSF ... (more)

The short-lived Scenic Rail Dining trains passes a string of three wrecked GP9's, the sight of which must have been a bit disconcerting for the passengers! The geeps had been involved in a wreck d... (more)

ex ARR 2402, exx AMTK 434, exxx MILW 32A, nee MILW 202A

A visitor on the WC here for EAA's annual Fly-In.

Nearing it's destination, the EAA Fly-In in Oshkosh.

In a panned photograph, Wisconsin and Southern E9 No. 10C flies through Leyden, Colorado, eastbound on a special west coast passenger train now headed back home on October 2, 1998.

A chartered Wisconsin and Southern passenger train operated through several western states in September 1998—the so-called “Bill Gates Special”—was westbound at the site of former Tunnel 2... (more)