Westbound warriors
A Soo Line westbound passes the Brookfield depot on the nice spring day of May 26, 1987. Power was two GP30s and a GP9, all of them in battle-worn paint but still doi... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound Empire Builder slams into a small drift leftover from a snow plow, in Brookfield, WI. Amtrak no. 139 has taken a beating crossing Wisconsin this day. Much of the area received m... (more)

The classy Big MACs of the Indiana Railroad bring empty buckets through a cavern of trees on their way through Wisconsin. Ultimately they will be loaded with coke at Roseport, MN.

Plain Vanilla- Is fine by me. We used to despise these, as they were everywhere. Now we scramble to get the last ones. SOO 6033, is the nicest of the bunch, complete with class lights and original... (more)

Soo Line (Lake States Transportation Division or LSTD) Train No. 17, led by SD39 No. 6241, waits for the passage of Soo Train No. 203 at Springdale Road in Brookfield, Wisconsin, on June 6, 1987. ... (more)

CN's L510 serves as a Milwaukee Coke Runner today as the light power move cruises past the historic depot. They will arrive in Milwaukee's Muskego Yard within half an hour and pick up 70+ Coke Loa... (more)

What do you do when your employer sends everyone home in the middle of a snowstorm? . . . you go out in it! On the snowy afternoon of January 25, 1990, a Soo Line westbound dashes through the snow... (more)

Milwaukee Road SD40-2 No. 188 leads the westbound hotshot on April 5, 1986, at Brookfield, Wisconsin. The Soo Line merger is now at four months with the Milwaukee, but the orange and black locomot... (more)

Four "Blue and Yellows" bracket three other SD40-2s with a short 277 train.

A pair of Hockey Stick SD60s lean into Brookfield, WI with the morning stacks. It's always a treat to catch a leader with marker lights intact.

A westbound Soo Line grain train, that still looks for the world like a Milwaukee Road train, heads west through Brookfield, Wisconsin. A friendly wave from the fireman as the train passes makes f... (more)

Two Candy Apples handle the morning stacks.

A Milwaukee Road hotshot heads west past the venerable depot at Brookfield, Wisconsin.

All four SD40-2's are notched out and humming as they bring train 277 west through my hometown. This train has a few days left ahead of it before it will reach it's terminating point of Huron, Sou... (more)