The westbound mail train slows for a crew change at Ft. Mad passing the old Schaffer Pen factory. I was inspired by Joe McMillan's "High Green To Marceline" to shoot this spot.
Catfish have been known to frequent Wisconsin, too.
The NRHS 'circle trip' with MILW 261 departs St. Paul after a flurry of traffic at Hoffman clears, the last of which is an empty hopper train. To see the action a few minutes before, click more)
The 2004 NRHS "circle trip" saw the 261 run downriver from St. Paul to LaCrosse on the BNSF, then on the CP back up the Minnesota side of the river. Here the 261 highballs LaCrosse.
MILW 261 crosses the St. Croix River into Wisconsin under the eye of the bridgetender.
P&PU engines idle away.
WSOR holiday train rolls south past the site of the CNW depot that stood in Lodi, 158 miles from Chicago on the old CNW/Omaha Rd. Twin Cities route. 10C has since been renumbered 101 and the plow... (more)
You are looking at the Upper Mississippi River valley from the bluff overlook at Palisades State Park, where below is BN's busy ex-CB&Q. This train came out of the Galesburg terminal, it wasn't u... (more)
The patrol kicks up the snow as it flys by on a cold winter morning.
Elkhart-Streator manifest heads past the old double-headed NYC-style home signal at Porter westward on the Porter Branch. 7815 came from C&S, delivered 6/77 source: www.thedieselshop.us
UP 3985 blasts through the northern suburbs of Chicagoland, returning from Milwaukee alongside US 41.
WSOR 1501 passes a farm nearing Stoughton on its first run over the Madison sub.
An overnight Spring snow has coated Dayton's Bluff as a westbound hits the plant. The day before was sunny & mild.
Headed back for another load of Powder River gold..
How do you move a depot? Very carefully.
