Coal for University of Wisconsin-Madison’s power plant arrived via barge on the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien. It then was switched by this old Whitcomb locomotive, and picked up by a Wi... (more)
Burlington Northern train 143 marches westbound over the Wisconsin River Bridge near Prairie du Chien at Crawford, Wisconsin, on the warm morning of July 30, 1995.
Before Canadian National had its own route between Duluth/Superior and Chicago, it relied on trackage rights over Burlington Northern, until merging Wisconsin Central into the family in 2001 to ac... (more)
A privately owned collection of Milwaukee Road bay window cabooses look more like a caboose cemetery than a display in Prairie Du Chien. The group includes both flat side and horizontal ribbed exa... (more)
BNSF 5624 approaches Prairie du Chien, pulling an intermodal train. The train has just passed a lesser priority train, carrying trucks and wheelsets.
The sign of the times back in May 2020...The WSOR job heads east bound for Boscobel. The train passes the large sand plant on the eastside of Prairie du Chien. The plant has built temporary tracks... (more)
The Rio Grande received a batch of 25 new SD45's back in 1967-68. Many of those units went thru the UP merger and were sent to MK for rebuilding in the late 90's. Alot of these units have been sen... (more)
A gaggle of former Milwaukee Road Cabeese rust away on St. Feriole island, near a grain facility in Prairie du Chien.
BNSF 4427 crosses the Wisconsin River with a stack train below Wyalusing State Park at the confluence with the Mississippi River. In the distance, McGregor and Marquette, IA can be seen, both loca... (more)
WAMX SD40-2 #4223 sits on a spur track in Prairie du Chien, WI. Photo taken 6/6/20.
A BNSF stack train rolls south across the Wisconsin River viewed from Wyalusing State Park. This location is the confluence of the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers.
Westbound passes Frazer's local Badger bar.
Eastbound crosses the Wisconsin River along the Mississippi.
BN 8169 brings a train thru Prairie Du Chien, WI in May of 1985.