Wisconsin Central train 46 heads southbound through rolling Wisconsin farmland at Theresa on the morning of July 20, 1996. That’s Wisconsin state highway 28 rising over the hill above the pair o... (more)

A pair of WC SD45's, led by 6553, charge across US Hwy 41 in Fond du Lac, WI as they get ready to climb Byron Hill. Helpers are still used here by the CN to get the trains over the hill.

A pair of 20-cylinder EMD SD45 locomotives haul Wisconsin Central train 49 out of Duplainville, Wisconsin, passing a blooming apple tree on the nice spring day of May 13, 1993.

Wisconsin Central train 12, powered by a trio of former Burlington Northern EMD SD45s still painted Cascade green, cruises through Van Dyne, Wisconsin, approaching North Fond du Lac on a snowy Feb... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s LM reaches the summit of Bozeman Pass, with the eight SD45/SD45-2 cradling the actual top of the grade at West End, Montana, on September 23, 2002. The point helper will stay... (more)

Wig wag quartet
Wisconsin Central’s ANPRA train heads southbound out of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on July 20, 1996. The Proviso-bound train is traveling on WC’s Fox Valley & Western, ... (more)

Montana is famous for their Two Medicine Bridge and Jens barn props, but we had one in Washington as well. Here BN 6485 leads a classic SD45/F45/SD40-2s mix upgrade through Chumstick Canyon west o... (more)

Plenty of St. Patrick's Day green covers the Cascades' east slopes in May 1984 as BN 6432 grinds its heavy westbound train up the 1 percent grade out of the Wenatchee River Valley at Peshastin, WA... (more)

Welcome to Paradise!. For a moment it's all Montana Rail Link as the local power watches the afternoon gas train roll west toward Thompson Falls. These were the only regular MRL equipped assignmen... (more)

A southbound Wisconsin Central coal train passes by the Don Bechler and Sons dairy farm just south of Van Dyne, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of April 14, 1997.

On April 5, 1996, scrappers working near the locomotive facility at Wisconsin Central’s Shops Yard at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, are reducing older surplus locomotives to pieces of scrap and ... (more)

Fred Tolan and his Washington-Oregon Shippers Assn. were very influential in the Pacific Northwest in controlling which railroad got traffic. One movement they controlled was inbound shipments of ... (more)

The day's last light reflects off Samish Bay as BN 6459 glides across the Colony Creek trestle at Blanchard, WA, south of Bellingham along Chuckanut Drive. The train is headed from Vancouver, BC t... (more)

UP 3607, an SD45 rumble across the swing bridge just west of the UP Tacoma yard. Once across it will immediately swing north onto the BN mainline which it shares for the run to Portland, OR. The t... (more)

A nice mix of EMD power led by BN SD45 no. 6512 climbs the one percent grade of the Chumstick cutoff west of Leavenworth, heading from Wenatchee to Seattle via the Cascade Tunnel under Stevens Pas... (more)