UP 8999 leads a 15000 ft. land barge east at Bramar Rd. south of Fairchild, WI. The train was running between Altoona and Adams, WI.

Union Pacific 4014 continues its tour of the Midwest as Ed Dickens takes the train out of Milwaukee on the Milwaukee Subdivision bound for its next stop in West Chicago, Illinois.

NS 1800 leads CP 470 East past the searchlights in Sturtevant

SOO SD40-2 786 leads SD40 747 and U30C 802 at Irvine Yard, Chippewa Falls, WI. With switching completed it will soon depart with its priority freight to Shoreham Yard, Minneapolis. SOO was a partn... (more)

A switching crew handles duties with SOO GP9s nos. 402 and 403 in one on their yard in Superior, WI. Although The Twin Ports were known for their Missabe and GN ore docks, Soo Line had more lines ... (more)

CNW 4370 switches one of the few remaining industries east of the Milwaukee River in the 3rd Ward near downtown Milwaukee. The crane is a Bucyrus Erie Model 30B, manufactured only a few miles sout... (more)

BN 766 leads a 5 unit set of power at a snowy service area in BN's Belknap Yard near downtown Superior, WI. The former GN facility became BN's main yard for the Twin Ports for non-iron ore traffic... (more)

CN SD60 no. 5423 heads eastward toward Chippewa Falls after working a Colfax lumber facility and an ethanol plant at Boyceville, making for a relatively short day for its crew. It is about to cros... (more)

CN SD60 no. 5423 leads its local west toward Boyceville, WI at Wheeler. The turn out of Chippewa Falls will do some switching at the ethanol plant at Boyceville, then head back east to Chippewa Fa... (more)

Milwaukee's 3rd Ward was once a beehive of railroad activity on the CNW. Only a few customers are left in this shot from March of 1983 as CNW 4131 negotiates some rough track between buildings. Al... (more)

Milwaukee Road 5056 sits along the Milwaukee, WI harbor awaiting an uncertain future in November 1991. The U25B was built in July 1965, in the later carbody style that featured a split windshield ... (more)

SOO 1537, an MP15AC shows off its disgusting "bandit" scheme originated by some SOO mechanical department official that was not happy with Milwaukee Road colors after Soo Line acquired t... (more)

SOO 6024 leads a mix of red & white SD60s/SD40s west on the point of the "Ford Fast" which was a priority train between Chicago and St. Paul, primarily carrying auto parts to keep the pl... (more)

Amtrak 504 departs Milwaukee Intermodal Station with Eastbound Hiawatha 340.

Oh no! What was supposed to be the debut of Amtrak's newest locomotives on the Empire Builder turned out to be a complete disaster. Siemens ACC-42's 301/302 were supposed to lead #7 out of Chicago... (more)