A Z-train at speed cuts through Polo. The old underpass for the IC Gruber line is seen a few trailers back, since daylighted.

The sound of EMD at work on the railroad may be disappearing slowly but at least today the worn & weary geep is providing faithful service, drilling the yard in Freeport.

The stone train pulls at Nahant. Back then this train rated a caboose.

It's Christmas Eve and Soo power idles at the old railfan-accessable Green St. facility at Bensenville. The bandit is one of 16 ex-Milw GP38-2's included in the acquisition of the railroad, they ... (more)

The M&P turn heads back to Portage with a bandit in the lead.

The Snow Train readies for departure. Mid-Continent is making a comeback from the terrible flooding of 2008, to help click heremore)

It's 1985 all over again on the CP.

CP 5763 is no stranger to the Watertown sub, but getting a pure pacman lashup made it worth a chase. I got a photo of it on the point of a train changing crews at Portage a month ago, see it ... (more)

A bandit leads the branchline job back to Portage from Madison.

An all-Soo, all-EMD consist pulls tonnage eastward past Wisconsin farms.

A 50-degree day has the snow melting in Wisconsin. The result is mushy roadbed conditions over the frozen tundra necessitating a few slow orders on both the CP and nearby UP Adams sub. The loca... (more)

Interestingly, both these trains had a SOO widecab trailing in their consists. 280 meets it's counterpart, 281, on the doubletrack at Tamarack. 280 has just crossed over 2/1 in front of 281, an... (more)

A rare move over the otherwise unused Sauk branch is seen as the WSOR shoves hopper cars into storage. This ex-Milwaukee branch once served the US Army Badger Ammo plant.

A WSOR hopper train quietly passes the frozen mill pond nearing "Mazo". The hoppers will be shoved onto the Sauk spur for storage after the train passes the switch lead a few hundred yards ahead.

WSOR makes a move on the Prairie sub past the old wig-wag dating from the Milwaukee Road days. This is one of two active magnetic flagmen that can be found along this line west of Madison.