Cheesehead Media

A collection of my images and videos.

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DD40X by Brian Hechel Via Flickr: Union Pacific 6936, an EMD DD40X locomotive, leads an excursion for the Union Pacific Historical Society on the Iowa Interstate Railroad.

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Boo 1 by Brian Hechel Via Flickr: Boo stares down the human with the camera.

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The Bone by Brian Hechel Via Flickr: The B-1 Lancer nicknamed the "Bone" is a supersonic variable -sweep wing aircraft from Rockwell International, now a part of Boeing.

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UP 1983 - Western Pacific by Brian Hechel Via Flickr: UP 1983 better know as the Western Pacific Heritage Unit is just south of Belgium, WI on its way to the Edgewater Generating Plant in Sheboygan, WI

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Orange Locomotive at JB Tower by Brian Hechel Via Flickr: Fifteen years ago the Canadian National assumed control of the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway otherwise known as the EJ&E or simply The “J”. In West Chicago, IL the CN Leithon Subdivision crosses the Union Pacific Geneva Sub. This location is known as JB Tower. Evidence of the EJ&E still exist here such as the sign on the tower featuring the J-Ball logo and name of the location.

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Goodyear by Brian Hechel Via Flickr: At EAA AirVenture 2025 Goodyear sent two of it's blimps to the Experimental Aircraft Association's annual convention in Oshkosh Wisconsin. N2A or "Wingfoot Two" leads the way followed by N1A known as "Wingfoot One" painted in a speacial 100th Anniversary paint sceme in commemeration of the Goodyear airship "Pilgrim". This was the first commercial non-rigid airship flown using helium and the first public relations blimp for the company.

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90 Years of Electrc Transportation by Brian Hechel Via Flickr: In 1935 The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Transport Company built Steeplecab Motor L8. At the time it was considered the future of railway transportation. In front of L8 is a 2025 Chevrolet Blazer EV. It too is considered the future of automobile transportation. It just shows that every idea that is old becomes new again.

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3D-Weston Coal Train in Oak Creek from Cheesehead Media on Vimeo.

A Union Pacific led Weston coal train is at track speed as it passes over the location where the diamond with the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee interurban railroad was located in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

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3D-Robotic Lawn Mower Fail from Cheesehead Media on Vimeo.

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Two Car Special by Brian Hechel Via Flickr: The Waukesha job is heading north (timetable west) on the siding just north of Duplainville to a customer in Sussex.

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Canadian Pacific 2816 - Empress by Brian Hechel Via Flickr: Passing through Franksville, WI on the C&M Subdivision. CP 2816 is on the Final Spike Tour running from Calgary, Alberta to Mexico City in celebration of the merger of the Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern.

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Erie in the Heartland by Brian Hechel Via Flickr: Far from their home rails in Ohio and Pennsylvania geographically speaking these two EMD SD40T-3 locomotives just crossed the street as they are at the top of Byron Hill, part of the Niagara Escarpment which separates the Great Lakes and Mississippi watersheds. This geographical feature is also what creates the infamous Niagara Falls in New York and Canada.

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Erie in the Heartland by Brian Hechel Via Flickr: Far from their home rails in Ohio and Pennsylvania geographically speaking these two EMD SD40T-3 locomotives just crossed the street as they are at the top of Byron Hill, part of the Niagara Escarpment which separates the Great Lakes and Mississippi watersheds. This geographical feature is also what creates the infamous Niagara Falls in New York and Canada.

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Amtrak 340 by Brian Hechel Via Flickr: Amtrak 340, one of the Hiawatha Service trains, moments earlier performed its station stop in Sturtevant, WI and in just over an hour will be arriving in Chicago where the crew will switch ends and run the same route back to Milwaukee.

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Allis Chalmers D14 Plowing a Field in Ixonia

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Diamonds from Above in Dalton Georgia