First Run to Fond du Lac, Part 1: All Dressed Up, Nowhere to Go

Watch the thunderous fury of a steam locomotive scorching down a busy mainline railroad! Frisco 1522, freshly restored, hauled her first passenger excursions in 1988, carrying over a thousand passengers on the Wisconsin Central from Chicago to Fond du Lac, Wis. In Part 1, we see how the 1522 crossed paths with the WC, and watch her break-in runs on freight trains.

[@1974rail]

I think this year will be a great year!

[@rudycarlson8245]

This locomotive needs to be restored! From what I hear she is stored serviceable so that means I think it would not take much to get her running again

[@colinmulder6806]

Many thanks for uploading this. This is one of two of your programs I'm missing from my collection. By MID-AMERICA do you mean MID-AMERICA CAR CORPORATION? Those would be the folks responsible for repainting Burlington Northern's EXECUTIVE F-UNITS two years after this video.
Though I knew & had to admit, you folks couldn't resist showing a few scenes of Wisconsin Central at work on their mainline hauling either freight traffic or PASSENGER EXTRAS. Even featuring detours of Amtrak's EMPIRE BUILDER on the WC.