LTV Steel (ex-Erie Mining) 4214 is finished unloading and is about to head back to the mine with an eclectic assortment of power in October of 1993. Lake Superior looms in the background.

BN 5032 is starting its assault on Crawford hill with a loaded coal train in May of 1990.

Reverse Superelevation? CNW 8042 is leaning the wrong way after suffering a derailment in St. Francis, WI in June of 1992.

This elevated crossing shanty guarded the north end of Soo Line's Neenah Yard in November of 1983. This shanty was saved and is at the Mid-Continent RR Museum in Wisconsin.

A Conrail GP40-2 soaks in the last rays of sunlight as it leads a piggyback train across the Rockville Bridge in May of 1993.

CNW 6703 leads an ore train across the Goose Lake causeway near Marquette, MI in May of 1986. This area was Alco heaven in the mid-1980's.

A companion photo to #599688. This partial view of the huge Milwaukee Road complex in Milwaukee, WI. looks southwest towards the hump yard. Most of the facility is unused at this point in March of... (more)

The Milwaukee Road shops in Milwaukee, WI were an enormous facility at one time. Much of the facility was unused when this photo was taken in March of 1985. Unfortunately, nothing remain today.

SOO 6000 waits in the siding in Milwaukee, WI for an Amtrak Hiawatha to pass in December of 1994. The Amtrak Metroliner was once PRR 822.

It's a race! Not really, but both trains are moving. We are west of Kansas City in March of 1995, and we heard 2 sets of horns blowing for a crossing west of us. Fortunately, the faster train led ... (more)

The crew on GBW 313 prepares to dump some ballast in Independence, WI in May of 1992.

BN 5598 leads a coal train along Hwy 2 near Ashby, NE in May of 1991. I always liked these GE's on coal trains.

UP 6111 leads a CNW ore train thru Lehigh, WI in November of 1990. The train is on WC (ex-SOO) track heading towards Escanaba, MI. Once dormant, the track has since been brought back to life by th... (more)

Double tracking the hill! WC 586 (a rare ex-MILW SDL39) is cresting Byron Hill in Byron, WI in November of 1999. Business is good enough that the WC is double tracking the hill. The grade is compl... (more)

CNW 4158 switches Eden, WI on CNW's Airline in July of 1985. CN currently operates this line to Eden, but it is torn up south of here.