WC 585

This Wisconsin Central SDL-39 was working around the Marquette-Negaunee-Ishpeming area during my 1990 vacation at Van Riper State Park in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. I saw it several times over the course of the week as I explored Marquette County

The Soo Line slapped the ugly "Blackbeard" paint job on the locomotives it acquired with the bankrupt Milwaukee Road in the mid-80s, then passed this one along to WC when it spun off its Lake States Division trackage (approximately the earlier,
original Wisconsin Central) a couple years later. Eventually 585 got a proper WC paint job.

Photo scanned from a slide.