A southbound UP freight train passes the elevator at Garden City on the UP Spineline. Today's train is power by 2 nice looking WC motors. Garden City is in central Iowa and 15 miles north of Nevad... (more)

A Wisconsin Central SD45 is getting a fresh coat of maroon and gold at the shops in Fond du Lac, WI in November of 1990.

WC 724 leads an Explorers excursion thru Muckwonago, WI in July of 1988.

WC 6624 is about to hammer the ex-Nickel Plate diamond in La Porte, IN in November of 1999. Foreign power was very common on this portion of Conrail/NS.

After a few blocks of street running, WC 6523 is splitting the signals at Division Street and Church Avenue in Oshkosh, WI in March of 1992. Ahead is the crossing of the Fox River. Not a trace of ... (more)

WC 6509 has a southbound freight in tow as it passes thru Theresa Station, WI in April of 1994.

Led by a Wisconsin Central SD45, the Dwight Eisenhower steam special has departed its home at the National Railway Museum in Green Bay as it heads southwest toward Abilene, Kansas, for a ceremony ... (more)

Smoke 'em if you got 'em....... WC 4006 departs Neenah, WI in a cloud of smoke in June of 1996. I'm sure the neighbors were not too happy about this!

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)

WC 6532 is southbound near Stone Lake, WI in June of 1997. My wife and I were on our way home from our Honeymoon!

WC 731 leads a dogs breakfast of locomotives pulling a coal train past Cut-Off tower in Milwaukee, WI in October of 1988.

WC 6522 is running down an almost snow free Division Street in Oshkosh, WI in January of 1992. Note the Griswold signal guarding the crossing. You would never know this line existed if you were to... (more)

On a nice September evening, WC SD45 7525 sits on display at the IRM.

After Canadian National merged the Wisconsin Central in 2001, with the sale approved on September 7, 2001, some of WC’s locomotives soon found themselves gathering in storage lines. On November ... (more)

WC 6654 brings a cut of ore jennies thru Empire Junction in June of 1997. Once home to CNW FM's and Alco's, regular runs to the Empire Mine have ceased as the mine has closed. Only a limited stock... (more)