WC was on borrowed time when I shot this westbound empty ore train with a head end fill of logs and a few cars of paper west of Gilchrist. The WC's charismatic Ex President Ed Burkhardt had been u... (more)
A Wisconsin Central Freight has just passed through West Wye and is headed for Ishpeming on former Chicago and Northwestern rails.
Wisconsin Central SD45 6556 (ex-EMD 3123, ex-NS 3123, nee-SOU 3123) leads a colorful consist through Schiller Park, Illinois, just east of an eerily quiet O'Hare Airport on September 11, 2001. Fo... (more)
461 crosses 1st Ave in Merrill.
461 switches out pulp cars at Merrill.
461 slows down to 10 mph in order to cross 6th Street in Wausau.
461 waits as the conductor walks up to the engine.