Soo Line 771 leads a train down 2nd Street in Bellevue, IA in September of 1993. I wish I could have seen a brace of MILW F-units in this location.....
CP 771 leads a freight past a bucolic farm near Green Island, IA in September of 1993. The fields still have standing water in them from some serious flooding of the Mississippi River.
A sleepy little community in the southern portion of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Trout Lake does not seem a strong place to observe rail activity, but, even into 1984, the Soo Line was still ... (more)
Last Ride- This is the last ride I got to take with the big guy himself (my Dad)- Wm Beecher Sr, who has the SOO 771 in fighting form climbing Lake Hill.. A couple months later I would hire out fo... (more)
Riding With Dad - Dad was an Engineer with the Milw/SOO/CP... I shot this in late winter 92'. This was one of the last trips taken with dad. It wasn't a couple months later, that I graduated from ... (more)