WC's lone big FP45 toiled in freight service nearly all the time. But on a snowy spring day in 1996 it was found leading an AMT unit and a lengthy train of private cars eastbound near Trout Lake.

The GP35's were never a real popular unit on CPR. After C-C power started arriving they quickly were lost in huge amounts of SD40/SD40-2's and even big M-Liner's. They tended to stay in secondary ... (more)

Soo 2408 and 4441 rest by the Trout Lake depot while a couple of crew members discuss the upcoming switch moves. A little snow is left from the previous evening and it will not be long until the s... (more)

BN 610, 676 along with three EMD hoods including a leased Frisco GP35 near Tacoma in this photo from my collection. Photo has been in my collection for years, photographer name is badly faded but ... (more)

4364, 6857 and 6886 head a manifest over the long bridge at Neenah. Slide from my collection, no photographer listed.

Soo/Lake States train 12 rolls west as long shadows creep over the yard at Trout Lake. GP35 724 leads 4232 and a fair sized train west. By this date it was obvious to even the most optimistic that... (more)

Serviced and ready to go CNW 6721,6715 and 6710 await a crew at the new CNW engine facility in Escanaba.

Consecutively numbered SD's roll 52 cars of train 910 east on a warm November morning. By this time the Soo had become a mainly SD40, SD40-2, GP38-2 railroad. Early Geeps and GP30's along with a s... (more)

CNW was always on the look out for some good cheap second hand power during most of the 70's. 4374 was one of a group of twenty ex SLSF GP7's bought in July 1976 from Precision National Corp. A nu... (more)

LS&I bought a number of used RSD12's from C&O/B&O in the early 70's. A few were put on the lease market with the LASCO name on them. CNW used some of them for a couple years and this one was shot... (more)

Soo 2226A, 779, 2203B are just starting to get train 911 rolling with 130 cars on a dark, cloudy November evening. The rear end guys will be on the caboose in about 25 more car lengths and it will... (more)

Milwaukee GP30 1001 at Bensenville. Photo taken by Richard Wallin and either was bought or traded for years ago.

A westbound local departs Trout Lake with 23 cars on a dark April afternoon.

It's been a long winter in Upper Michigan and it looks like we are going to have snow well into May. This CN eastbound has 70 loads of Tilden ore for Algoma Steel with a mid-train unit and then 45... (more)

An ex Katy EMD re-engined Baldwin in fresh paint along with a big FM and another Ex Katy on a slide from my collection. No photographer listed. The slide is labeled as being at Butler. I'm not sur... (more)