Ready for the invasion? I've seen a lot of unusual MOW vehicles, but this is certainly one of the most unusual. The E&LS painted up this ex-military 6x6 in their GN inspired scheme, see here at th... (more)

Rare bird. Soo Line 6405 (ex-KCS 627), a fairly rare SD40A, meets SD40-2 778 at Hoffman Ave. in St. Paul, MN in October of 1992.

The MILW Somers, WI depot is looking pretty bad in the April, 1987 photo. Somers was on the C&M division between Milwaukee and Chicago. The depot was torn down not long after this photo was taken.

UP 3985 rounds the curve at at Saint Francis, WI as it heads to Butler in August of 2002. A couple of locals watch it go by.

In a scene all too familiar, CNW's Oconto, WI depot sits derelict and abandoned in June of 1997. Despite efforts to save the depot, it was torn down shortly after this photo was taken. This is the... (more)

Soo Line 2403 has left the mainline and is heading for Jones Island in Milwaukee, WI in June of 1993.

Conrail 6831 brings a freight thru Cresson, PA in June of 1992 as coal/helper power looks on.

In a scene that looks dramatically different today, BN intermodal train #91 is about to duck under Hwy 59, north of Bill, WY, in the waning daylight of a beautiful May 1990 day. Trains 91/92 were ... (more)

The sun is about to set and UP 8992 is about to disappear into the trees as it backs around the north end of the wye at St. Francis, WI in October of 2016. This fairly unusual move was to get the ... (more)

CGW (CNW) 10534 rests in Butler Yard in May of 1995. It was always good to see CGW reporting marks several decades after being acquired by the CNW.

The MILW Watertown, WI depot stands at the crossing of the MILW Chicago-Twin Cities mainline and the C&NW Clyman-Jefferson branchline. The C&NW depot is visible on the right side of the tracks in ... (more)

Could it be? CNW 6819 leads a westbound freight under Whitnall Avenue in Milwaukee, WI in December of 1986. My dad might have been the salesman for the P&H Harnischfeger overhead crane that is on ... (more)

It's March of 1992 and the Roger Blough and the Phillip Clarke are getting ready to depart Milwaukee after laying up there for the winter. MILW 5056 hasn't and isn't going anywhere for a while. A ... (more)

CNW GP40 5500 leads train PRGBA under Hwy R, north of Francis Creek, WI in August of 1988. The train is on CNW's Shoreline, which is a bike trail today.

Soo Line's Jenswold Street Interlocking tower stands guard over a SOO/NP crossing in Duluth under the DMIR ore dock. The tower has been abandoned for a while when this picture was taken in Septemb... (more)