Lake Tower was on Milwaukee's south side and governed a small yard, crossovers, and passing siding on the Milwaukee Road. The tower was closed in the mid 1980's and was burned by vandals in 1989 a... (more)

WSOR 516 awaits its fate at the MILW Shops in January of 1985. This somber scene is a sign of things to come as almost all traces of the once expansive shop facility are gone today.

3 Trailer Train flatcars bring an unusual load thru Duplainville, WI in March of 1987. The load is from Phoenix Steel and almost looks like the framework for some type of movable bridge.

CNW 876 emerges from the fog near Blodgett, IL on CNW's New Line in March of 1985.

Butler Yard in Wisconsin is busy in August of 1991 as FRVR 2401 and a colorful consist do some switching before heading north to reach their home rails and the destination of Green Bay.

The last one. MILW 357 leads the last train #245 (Milwaukee-Green Bay) across Hwy U near Waldo, WI in January of 1987. Technically a Soo Line train, they have an all MILW consist today on this ori... (more)

The MOW crew watches as the road crew on GBW 322 dumps ballast near Independence, WI in May of 1992.

Soo Line 6601 is about to duck under Hwy 50 near Wheatland, WI in January of 1986.

We are looking out the window of an iconic EMD cab unit, in this case WSOR E9 10A, as we head towards Burnett, WI at a whopping 10 mph. The train was an excursion chartered by the Wisconsin Chapte... (more)

FRVR 832 lead a freight thru the bucolic countryside north of Campbellsport, WI in March of 1992. This is the Kettle Moraine area of Wisconsin, know for its lake and hill for by the last ice age.

Amtrak 297 leads train #7, The Empire Builder, across a new bridge being built at Drexel Avenue in Oak Creek, WI in July of 1987. Once a 2 lane, at grade crossing, the bridge is over a new 4 lane ... (more)

Candy Apple Red! SOO 4403, the first unit to be painted Candy Apple Red, and still w/o nose stripes, leads an eclectic passenger train northbound thru Oak Creek, WI in August of 1989. The consist ... (more)

ATSF 2928 heads up an interesting consist on a double stack train as it blasts thru Ottawa, KS in March of 1995.

Amtrak 392 leads the Capitol Limited as it makes a station stop in Johnstown, PA in June of 1992.

Conrail 6831 blasts out of the now closed Gallitzin Tunnel in a cloud of diesel smoke with a coal train in June of 1992.