WC 2557 is eastbound with plow 315 on the Kincheloe Spur clearing the way to the propane unload facility that gets a lot of use during the Upper Peninsula's cold winters.
AC 1753,WC 6590, WC 6619 drop downgrade at East Kinross with the combined Ladysmith/Tilden ore loads. The gondolas up front are out of Ladysmith and the Ex ACR ore cars on the rear are loaded with... (more)
The WC was kind of a disappointment to me at first, with patched SDL's, GP30's, GP35's and Ex BN "Green Weenie" SD45's, but once they managed to get their act together I felt it turned into one of... (more)
Milw. 158, Soo 2408 head train 12 west into a late evening sun near Kinross. The train was 50 cars long on this mid July evening, rather large for this era. Train 12 normally had a call time of 4-... (more)
WC like the Soo had done decades earlier often turned to the LS&I for leased power to get them through the Upper Michigan winters. Strangely both roads had limited(Soo) or no(WC) experience with G... (more)
LS&I U-boats 3052,3053 lead WC train ACLD eastbound with 37 cars of Tilden Mine pellets for the blast furnace at Algoma Steel in Sault Ste. Marie, ONT. The WC was very power short during the winte... (more)
LS&I 3009 and WC 6509 are teamed up on WC train ACLD at Kinross as they move Tilden pellets to Algoma Steel in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. The WC had 8 LS&I U30C's on lease over the winter of 1996.
WC 2554, AC 1750,1754 roll #135 through the snow at Kinross. At this time of year the ACR F's didn't have much to do in the line of passenger service, so ever power short WC put them to work on Sa... (more)
A short #12 of only 10 cars scoots past Kinross. The only westbound train on the Soo Sub. today gives ample reason why Soo had these lines up for sale. 705 was one of only a few GP30's that didn't... (more)