A Union Pacific manifest from Altoona to Adams, WI rounds the curve into Fall Creek, WI after leaving Altoona. Today's freight featured a nice quartet of NS GE power, led by rebuilt C40-9, NS 4060... (more)

A fresh dusting of snow and coating of frost on the trees greets the eastbound Altoona-Adams (WI) freight led by UP 8239 at Fall Creek, WI about 9 miles east of Altoona Yard.

UP 1878 and a GP60 roll east near Fall Creek, WI crossing a short formerly double track bridge on their way to Augusta with empty sand hoppers. The local originated at Altoona Yard.

CNW 6812 and 6868 slow to a stop to enter Rodell siding for a meeting. Rodell is located between Fall Creek and Augusta, WI on CNW's former Twin Cities mainline from Chicago. This train could have... (more)

The crew of this Union Pacific manifest knocks down the signal at Rodell on the Altoona Sub just a few miles east of Fall Creek, Wisconsin.

UP 5988 and an SD70M lead a coal train east around a curve approaching Rodell siding east of Fall Creek, WI. Having watched (and chased) trains on this former "Route of the 400" mainline... (more)

CNW 6811 and an SD45 highball train 472 east near Fall Creek, the first village east of Eau Claire/Altoona, WI. Train 472 was assigned to handle traffic from East Minneapolis to Green Bay, routed ... (more)

The MOW crews cleaned the switches, engine 6812 got train 415 into the "hole", and now CNW train 406, the CN-DWP connecting train from Duluth-Superior to Chicago headed up by CNW 6809, r... (more)

Modest fresh snow and bitter cold forced CNW maintenance crews to drive out from Altoona to Rodell siding to shovel and pick ice out of the spring switches so train 415 could go "in the hole&... (more)

Train 415 eases up to the east end of Rodell siding east of Fall Creek on a crisp January afternoon. Fresh snow and cold temperatures required CNW maintenance of way crews to come out and shovel o... (more)

CNW 6812 leads train 415 as it waits in Rodell siding east of Fall Creek, Wis. for the caboose of train 406 to roll by. The trains were somewhat delayed by cold weather, and MOW crews had to come ... (more)

UP 1996 is parked at the siding in Rodell. This was once a popular stop on the CNW when Rodell was a town in the 1900's-1930's. With the CNW long gone, UP heritage unit 1996 is parked here at the ... (more)

Train 415 splits the semaphores on CNW's Twin Cities mainline just east of Fall Creek, WI. CNW 6812 was delivered in the first batch of SD40-2s in 1973, the first new EMDs on CNW since the last ba... (more)

Norfolk Southern led Triple Crown train streaks east across Wisconsin farmland under the dark of the night. Severe weather is pounding the state which the crew will need to deal all night. The red... (more)

The setting sun paints the sky orange as the day comes to an end. A green signal stands above the weeds silhouetted off the sky, giving a Union Pacific manifest clear track east to Adams, Wisconsi... (more)