A Wisconsin & Calumet three-car freight departs Monroe, Wisconsin, over a snow-covered former Illinois Central Gulf branch line running between Madison, Wisconsin, and Freeport, Illinois, on Febru... (more)

A Wisconsin & Southern inspection train heads south through Waukesha, Wisconsin, in July 29, 1997. The classy train is using Wisconsin Central trackage rights to travel from Rugby Junction to Gran... (more)

A family is out ice fishing on a frozen Neenah Slough, as Wisconsin Central train 65 passes by in the background on the day after Christmas in 1994. Train 65 has EMD GP30 No. 713, a former Soo Lin... (more)

BN 2235 and 5412 wait for an assignment at BN's North La Crosse, WI engine facilities in February 1974. BN 2235 is former CB&Q 958 built in June 1962. BN 5412 is former GN 2512 built in May 1965.

In a view is from an impressive overlook in Grandad Bluff Park, Burlington Northern “Expediter” intermodal train 42 rolls past—actually through part of—the Forest Hills Public Golf Course ... (more)

Charleston & Western Carolina F7 No. 901 does some freight duties during car clean up at the end of operations for short line Wisconsin Western in 1985. In late March, the unit retrieved cars off ... (more)

Powered by a nice pair of EMD GP30s—Nos. 716 and 703—Soo Line train 11 rumbles through Lomira, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of July 26, 1987.

Gone Fishin'. BNSF 6583 is parked next to a marina north of Alma, WI on BNSF main 2 with a manifest train that has sat all day along with 3 other eastbound trains between Nelson, WI and Winona Jct... (more)

Double Trouble. BNSF 8140 rolls past BNSF 6583 just north of Alma, WI overtaking the parked manifest with its stack train. This was the third train parked on main 2 between Nelson and Fountain Cit... (more)

It’s almost sunset on April 13, 1997, as Canadian National train 349 detours on Chicago & North Western’s Adams line, passing under the venerable coaling tower at Clyman Junction, Wisconsin, o... (more)

December in Wisconsin
The skies are leaden and scenery umber, with many shades between, fading to the horizon. A skiff of snow over harvested fields brightens the scene, but chilly wind... (more)

Soo Line train 203, an auto parts train to the Twin cities, is westbound at Duplainville, Wisconsin, led by Milwaukee Road EMD SD40-2 No. 174, on April 12, 1987.

On its very first run, brand new Chicago & North Western GE C44-9W No. 8603 is paired up with vintage C&NW GP7 No. 4323 switching a train of coal empties on the spur into Sheboygan Power Plant at ... (more)

MILW 605 works the Beer Line in Milwaukee, WI in February of 1983. Once an important line in the area, almost all traces of the are gone now since Schlitz stopped brewing "The Beer That Made ... (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)