WC's lone big FP45 toiled in freight service nearly all the time. But on a snowy spring day in 1996 it was found leading an AMT unit and a lengthy train of private cars eastbound near Trout Lake.
In a scene that would never be repeated, Wisconsin Central's one and only FP45 (ex ATSF) leads CSX train Q213 by the south end of Woodland on CSXT's Fitzgerald Subdivision.
Wisconsin Central train No. 51 passes underneath the Chicago and North Western’s Adams Line at Sussex, Wisconsin, on April 16, 1997. On the point is WC’s only EMD FP45, No. 6652, followed by a... (more)
WC 6652 and 6602 speed around the curve at Rugby Junction with train 46. The 6652 wore an untouched ATSF warbonnet scheme and kept its Santa Fe number for quite awhile when it first came to the WC... (more)