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By:Brian Connolly
Dates:4/4/2005 - 6/5/2011
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CP 8707
Title:  CP 8707
Description:  A westbound approaches Boeck road on the west side of Portage.
Photo Date:  3/20/2016  Upload Date: 8/27/2016 10:20:05 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 8707(ES44AC) CSX 779(ES44AC-H) CSX 981(ES44AC-H)
Views:  213   Comments: 0
SOO 6022
Title:  SOO 6022
Description:  A SOO SD60 leads a visiting NS unit on an EB freight. The train was stopped at Duplainville to allow a CN train to pass on the diamond.
Photo Date:  3/16/2003  Upload Date: 11/3/2005 7:35:50 PM
Location:  Duplainville, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 6022(SD60)
Views:  859   Comments: 0
SOO 46
Title:  SOO 46
Description:  This caboose, in dire need of a new paint job, sat coupled to a MOW crane at Brookfield in April of '03
Photo Date:  4/21/2003  Upload Date: 11/3/2005 7:46:00 PM
Location:  Brookfield, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  597   Comments: 0
BNSF 4821
Title:  BNSF 4821
Description:  A couple of GEs lead a stack train south past Grandad Bluff (upper right corner of photo).
Photo Date:  7/24/2003  Upload Date: 11/3/2005 6:59:51 PM
Location:  La Crosse, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  436   Comments: 0
BNSF 4177
Title:  BNSF 4177
Description:  One of many trains glides through Ferryville on BNSF's line that parallels the Mississippi River in WI. Trackwork closed one of the two mains and several trains were backed up
Photo Date:  7/24/2004  Upload Date: 11/3/2005 7:14:09 PM
Location:  Ferryville, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 4177(C44-9W) BNSF 7140(SD40-2)
Views:  725   Comments: 1
BNSF 5352
Title:  BNSF 5352
Description:  A couple of GEs bend a stack train between the bluffs and the Mississippi south of Genoa.
Photo Date:  7/18/2005  Upload Date: 9/5/2010 8:53:10 PM
Location:  Genoa, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 5352(C44-9W)
Views:  426   Comments: 0
CP 8733
Title:  CP 8733
Description:  After a frustratingly long afternoon of no trains, this one unit wonder hauled through Dupy under low (no) light. The train has just crossed over the CN/WC diamond and will soon be entering single track territory.
Photo Date:  12/26/2005  Upload Date: 12/26/2005 10:07:21 PM
Location:  Duplainville, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 8733(ES44AC)
Views:  456   Comments: 2
BNSF 4388
Title:  BNSF 4388
Description:  Some foreign motive power ushers a train of sulfer tanks west on the recently rennovated Adams sub. Trains like these, in addition to the scheduled freights (MPRSS, MPRIT, etc) are benefitting from the facelift to the line. The NS run-through trailer trains brought the need for the trackwork.
Photo Date:  12/28/2005  Upload Date: 8/2/2006 11:59:58 PM
Location:  Menomonee Falls, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 4388(C44-9W)
Views:  518   Comments: 0
CP 3019 and friends
Title:  CP 3019 and friends
Description:  Yard power congregates at the engine tracks at CP's former MILW Muskego yard.
Photo Date:  12/28/2005  Upload Date: 8/3/2006 12:08:09 AM
Location:  Milwaukee, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 3019(GP38AC) CP 1422(MP15AC) SOO 4438(GP38-2)
Views:  1287   Comments: 0
CP 8634
Title:  CP 8634
Description:  This freight uses the yard bypass tracks to head west out of Milwaukee. This train is a "one-unit wonder", as so many of the freights on CP's mainline to the twin cities are.
Photo Date:  12/28/2005  Upload Date: 8/3/2006 12:11:33 AM
Location:  Milwaukee, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 8634(AC44CW)
Views:  426   Comments: 0
SOO 4601 and 4438
Title:  SOO 4601 and 4438
Description:  Sisters 4601 and 4438 take a break inbetween yard duties at CP's Muskego yard facilities, located in the valley of downtown Milwaukee.
Photo Date:  12/28/2005  Upload Date: 8/3/2006 12:15:19 AM
Location:  Milwaukee, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 4601(GP40) SOO 4438(GP38-2)
Views:  1039   Comments: 0
BNSF 7160
Title:  BNSF 7160
Description:  An intermodal parallels a golf course beneath the bluffs on the Wisconsin side of the Mississippi river. Note the ex-Wisconsin Central SD45 trailing the BNSF unit, now wearing Montana Rail Link reporting marks. She needs a coat of paint!
Photo Date:  8/13/2006  Upload Date: 8/17/2006 11:47:56 AM
Location:  La Crosse, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 7160(SD40-2) MRL 1744(SD45)
Views:  677   Comments: 0
INRD 6010
Title:  INRD 6010
Description:  INRD 6010 and sister hustle a coke train eastbound on CP tracks just west of Sparta, WI
Photo Date:  7/30/2007  Upload Date: 8/1/2007 4:05:45 PM
Location:  Sparta, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  INRD 6010(SD60)
Views:  654   Comments: 1
ILSX 1396
Title:  ILSX 1396
Description:  A rare treat... most locos that head to Horicon for paint do not pass through Madison
Photo Date:  9/15/2007  Upload Date: 9/16/2007 10:18:29 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ILSX 1396(GP10)
Views:  1065   Comments: 1
JTPX 9272
Title:  JTPX 9272
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/9/2007  Upload Date: 12/9/2007 10:28:52 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  JTPX 9272(GP38-2)
Views:  515   Comments: 0
JTPX 9272
Title:  JTPX 9272
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/9/2007  Upload Date: 12/9/2007 10:21:00 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  JTPX 9272(GP38-2)
Views:  424   Comments: 0
JTPX 9290
Title:  JTPX 9290
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/9/2007  Upload Date: 12/9/2007 10:23:36 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  JTPX 9290(GP38-2)
Views:  396   Comments: 0
LTEX 1428
Title:  LTEX 1428
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/9/2007  Upload Date: 12/9/2007 10:25:44 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LTEX 1428(GP15-1)
Views:  501   Comments: 1
Hibernating in Janesville...
Title:  Hibernating in Janesville...
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/9/2007  Upload Date: 12/9/2007 10:36:32 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MJRX 711(GP30) LTEX 1428(GP15-1)
Views:  716   Comments: 1
CP 4526
Title:  CP 4526
Description:  A pair of candy-apple-red geeps keeps air on the CP's M&P job just south of Oshaukuta road.
Photo Date:  6/28/2009  Upload Date: 7/3/2009 2:36:39 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 4526(GP38-2)
Views:  494   Comments: 0
BNSy 9316
Title:  BNSy 9316
Description:  Managed to squeeze a trip to the tracks during a busy camping trip and lucked out!
Photo Date:  8/2/2009  Upload Date: 8/11/2009 11:17:24 PM
Location:  West Salem, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9316(SD70ACe)
Views:  402   Comments: 0
BNSF 9316
Title:  BNSF 9316
Description:  I was lucky enough to be trackside to see this fella growl through town. Great show!
Photo Date:  8/2/2009  Upload Date: 8/11/2009 11:20:46 PM
Location:  West Salem, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  403   Comments: 1
SOOs
Title:  SOOs
Description:  The M&P job appears in CP's 3 track interchange yard in Madison. After cutting off their WSOR-bound cars, they'll call the yard master for permission to pick up their outbounds.
Photo Date:  12/6/2009  Upload Date: 12/6/2009 8:22:40 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 2064(GP40) SOO 4451(GP38-2)
Views:  559   Comments: 0
SOO 2064
Title:  SOO 2064
Description:  A view from the south end of CP's interchange yard in Madison.
Photo Date:  12/6/2009  Upload Date: 12/6/2009 8:26:55 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 2064(GP40) SOO 4451(GP38-2)
Views:  641   Comments: 0
SOO 2064
Title:  SOO 2064
Description:  The conductor throws a switch so he can lead his train around the inbound cars and back to the track enterting WSOR's E. Johnson street yard
Photo Date:  12/6/2009  Upload Date: 12/6/2009 8:29:28 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 2064(GP40) SOO 4451(GP38-2)
Views:  672   Comments: 0
All greens.
Title:  All greens.
Description:  The M&P job works the interchange in Madison.
Photo Date:  12/6/2009  Upload Date: 12/6/2009 8:31:44 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 2064(GP40)
Views:  452   Comments: 0
SOO 4451
Title:  SOO 4451
Description:  The sun dies behind some clouds as the M&P job leaves town, Portage-bound.
Photo Date:  12/6/2009  Upload Date: 12/6/2009 8:38:31 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 4451(GP38-2) SOO 2064(GP40)
Views:  548   Comments: 1
SOO 4451
Title:  SOO 4451
Description:  The M&P turn passes the Oscar Meyer plant with cars they pulled out of WSOR's E. Johnson street yard.
Photo Date:  12/6/2009  Upload Date: 12/6/2009 8:40:00 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 4451(GP38-2) SOO 2064(GP40)
Views:  504   Comments: 0
Cranes, Trains & Automobiles
Title:  Cranes, Trains & Automobiles
Description:  Sorry, I just couldn't resist the lame joke! A WB waits for a crew#at Portage Jct East.
Photo Date:  3/28/2010  Upload Date: 4/4/2010 4:14:52 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICE 6407(SD40-2)
Views:  358   Comments: 0
ICE 6428
Title:  ICE 6428
Description:  A siort WB freight blasts through Columbus at dusk.
Photo Date:  3/28/2010  Upload Date: 4/4/2010 4:17:10 PM
Location:  Columbus, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICE 6428(SD40-2)
Views:  471   Comments: 0
SOO 4439
Title:  SOO 4439
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/28/2010  Upload Date: 4/4/2010 4:23:14 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 4439(GP38-2) CP 4406(GP38-2)
Views:  597   Comments: 0
SOO 4439
Title:  SOO 4439
Description:  The PM job starts out their day by kicking cars in the Portage yard.
Photo Date:  3/28/2010  Upload Date: 4/4/2010 4:19:23 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 4439(GP38-2) CP 4406(GP38-2)
Views:  572   Comments: 1
SOO 4439
Title:  SOO 4439
Description:  The PM job cut down this string in no time, kicking car after car. This crew doesn't miss a beat!
Photo Date:  3/28/2010  Upload Date: 4/4/2010 4:24:27 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 4439(GP38-2) CP 4406(GP38-2)
Views:  656   Comments: 0
SOO 4439
Title:  SOO 4439
Description:  A view of the PM job working in the yard
Photo Date:  3/28/2010  Upload Date: 4/4/2010 4:21:30 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 4439(GP38-2) CP 4406(GP38-2)
Views:  606   Comments: 0
Coal in, juice out.
Title:  Coal in, juice out.
Description:  A trio of BNSF units leads a loaded coal train towards Alliant Energy's Columbia Power Plant on CP's M&P sub.
Photo Date:  5/22/2010  Upload Date: 7/25/2010 7:52:58 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 6369(ES44AC)
Views:  361   Comments: 0
BNSF 6369
Title:  BNSF 6369
Description:  BNSF power glides along CP tracks on the M&P sub. They'll deliver their train of coal loads about a mile south of here.
Photo Date:  5/22/2010  Upload Date: 7/25/2010 8:06:09 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 6369(ES44AC)
Views:  373   Comments: 0
BNSF 6369
Title:  BNSF 6369
Description:  BNSF power ushers a loaded coal train towards the Columbia Power Plant
Photo Date:  5/22/2010  Upload Date: 7/25/2010 8:10:18 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 6369(ES44AC)
Views:  322   Comments: 0
DME 6211
Title:  DME 6211
Description:  Three DM&E SDs hurry a mixed freight around a curve just outside Rio, WI.
Photo Date:  5/22/2010  Upload Date: 7/25/2010 8:13:25 PM
Location:  Rio, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DME 6081(SD40-3) ICE 6211(SD40-2) ICE 6404(SD40-2)
Views:  373   Comments: 1
Dusk settles in
Title:  Dusk settles in
Description:  The last sunlight gone, the northbound M&P interrupts the lonely silence just south of Arlington.
Photo Date:  6/17/2010  Upload Date: 7/27/2010 11:42:55 PM
Location:  Arlington, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 4423(GP38-2) CP 4513(GP38-2)
Views:  481   Comments: 2
Can you tell we're at MP 23?
Title:  Can you tell we're at MP 23?
Description:  The Madison to Portage segment of the M&P job rounds the bend into De Forest
Photo Date:  6/17/2010  Upload Date: 7/27/2010 11:07:00 PM
Location:  DeForest, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOO 4423(GP38-2) CP 4513(GP38-2)
Views:  456   Comments: 0
SOO 4423
Title:  SOO 4423
Description:  The M&P job blasts into town at a paint-peeling 10mph clip!
Photo Date:  6/17/2010  Upload Date: 7/27/2010 11:13:11 PM
Location:  DeForest, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  SOO 4423(GP38-2) CP 4513(GP38-2)
Views:  468   Comments: 2
SOO 4423
Title:  SOO 4423
Description:  Having never really fanned this line before, I was satisfied with my snap decision to climb a dirt hill for this angle.
Photo Date:  6/17/2010  Upload Date: 7/27/2010 11:16:55 PM
Location:  DeForest, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  SOO 4423(GP38-2) CP 4513(GP38-2)
Views:  417   Comments: 1
SOO 4423
Title:  SOO 4423
Description:  The M&P job bisects some farm fields between Morrisonville and Arlington
Photo Date:  6/17/2010  Upload Date: 7/27/2010 11:22:35 PM
Location:  Morrisonville, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 4423(GP38-2) CP 4513(GP38-2)
Views:  426   Comments: 0
SOO 4423
Title:  SOO 4423
Description:  These two geeps were pulling pretty hard to crest the hill north of Morrisonville, even if only topping out at 10mph
Photo Date:  6/17/2010  Upload Date: 7/27/2010 11:28:23 PM
Location:  Morrisonville, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 4423(GP38-2) CP 4513(GP38-2)
Views:  382   Comments: 0
The Last Rays of Light
Title:  The Last Rays of Light
Description:  The sun sets of the crew of CP's M&P job as their train twists through the turns south of Arlington.
Photo Date:  6/17/2010  Upload Date: 7/27/2010 11:35:42 PM
Location:  Morrisonville, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 4423(GP38-2) CP 4513(GP38-2)
Views:  327   Comments: 1
A couple of geeps
Title:  A couple of geeps
Description:  Standard power for the M&P job heads the return trip to Portage.
Photo Date:  6/17/2010  Upload Date: 7/27/2010 10:59:48 PM
Location:  Windsor, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 4423(GP38-2) CP 4513(GP38-2)
Views:  327   Comments: 2
CP 9572
Title:  CP 9572
Description:  Hot on the heels of the Milwaukee-bound Empire Builder, this GE leads four EMD SDs through the midday sun at Fall River, WI.
Photo Date:  6/19/2010  Upload Date: 7/27/2010 11:51:51 PM
Location:  Fall River, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 9572(AC44CW)
Views:  400   Comments: 1
SOO 2064
Title:  SOO 2064
Description:  A bandit lives on to pull some empties in West Salem.
Photo Date:  7/16/2010  Upload Date: 7/28/2010 12:00:03 AM
Location:  West Salem, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 2064(GP40)
Views:  271   Comments: 0
SOO 2064
Title:  SOO 2064
Description:  I didn't have much time to fan while in western WI as I had a family reunion to attend. I got lucky right when I first got to town, though. Low light, bad skeeters and hungry horse flies... who cares?! I'll always stop for a bandit!
Photo Date:  7/16/2010  Upload Date: 7/28/2010 12:04:11 AM
Location:  West Salem, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 2064(GP40)
Views:  243   Comments: 0
SOO 2064
Title:  SOO 2064
Description:  Having collected the rest of his train from the main, the conductor sets the derail as the sun sets on the day.
Photo Date:  7/16/2010  Upload Date: 7/28/2010 12:22:03 AM
Location:  West Salem, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 2064(GP40)
Views:  284   Comments: 0


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