By 2007 I was no longer shooting many slides in my home area as most trains ran under cover of darkness or against the sun. On rare occasions CN 412 would fall well off schedule and if by some mir... (more)

On a frigid March morning train 911 is Chicago bound at Gilchrist with 76 cars powered by 2203A,747 and 213A. Thirteen days to the first day of "spring" and nothing could have seemed farther away ... (more)

Soo 747, MNS 41 and Soo 550 wander through some April snow at Gilchrist on a short train 909. Ahead lay meets with trains 910 at Swift and 912 at Isabella plus pick-ups at Gulliver, Manistique and... (more)

WC 3005, AC 1754, WC 3014,3023,6595 roll SOGBA through Gilchrist with an overpowered 37 car train as spring nears in Upper Michigan. This was the normal location for the AC F's for the few years t... (more)

Soo 755 and 4411 on train 909 pass through Gilchrist with 75 cars. December is normally a very cloudy month in Upper Michigan and when you add in the fact that it gets down to less than nine hours... (more)

Here is another view of the head on wreck at Gilchrist - see photo 401114 for more details.

A head on wreck caused by one train overrunning the meet at Gilchrist. I heard on the radio that "2 westbound trains collided head on" (accuracy in the media!) so I highballed across the border (I... (more)

A train that I probably wouldn't have bothered with five years earlier was this westbound. Clouds were filling the sky, but by late 1979 the handwriting was on the wall for the Soo F-unit fleet. Q... (more)

Crew on SD40-2 NO.770 observes the charred remains of SD40-2 NO. 6600. Trains 909 and 910 had collided head on the previous day when 910 neglected to take a siding. Crews jumped before the collisi... (more)

WC 3026, 7510 depart west out of the Gilchrist pass after meeting a eastbound on the evening of March 11, 2001.

Another wild WC consist from 1999, GP30 2252 leads F9B 1761, F45 6656, and SDL39 583 eastbound with 56 cars near Gilchrist.

Soo 4402,555 work out of the west end of the Gilchrist siding and over County Road H40. After getting back on the main the rear end crew will realign the switch for the main and this job will be o... (more)

Not popular with the crews Soo's small fleet of U30C's never spent much time in Upper Michigan after their first couple years of service. They were slow to load, rough riding and were prone to mec... (more)

WC train 35 with 1502,6527 has just heard that his westbound counterpart is in the siding at Gilchrist and the switches are lined and locked main to main. With that little bit of information the e... (more)

CN trains operating into and out of Sault Ste. Marie run mainly at night especially during the shorter days of winter, so it is a rare treat to be able to get good light on a train in most of my o... (more)