A loaded BNSF grain train rolls past the original NP depot in Missoula.

After a morning of snow clearing duty, the "caboose rides" really are just a light engine move - digging out the entire yard would have been quite the chore! A bonus for the visitors, though, ever... (more)

NP 105 warms up by 10106 on a cold morning...

NP 105 pulls Soo 559 out of the roundhouse to make room for SD9 6234...

With GN A11 in tow, NP 105 is in charge of the short excursion train today...

Greeting visitors to the Roundhouse.

This slide is almost 43 years old, I have no idea what train that was, I was 17 and on my first long trip alone. Note the old GM bus on the bridge and the raised NP on the B unit and the old RPO... (more)

On Day One of Amtrak, the first westbound North Coast Hiawatha from Chicago to Seattle passes by Dayton's Bluff, led by an ex-Northern Pacific F9. Scanned from a Kodachrome slide.

An ex-Northern Pacific U25C plus two more 6 axle GEs hustle an empty westbound coal train beneath the EJ&E bridge on a fine June morning some 35 years ago. Scanned from a Kodachrome original slid... (more)

Lots of first generation EMD power at the Belknap Street roundhouse in Superior, Wisconsin, in August of 1976. The 1421 is a former Northern Pacific GP7 (550) rebuilt into a GP10.

The Mainstreeter on a cold, wet day, at the Northern Pacific depot in Detroit Lakes, MN. This was taken just before Amtrak took over passenger service. From comments, note a) Grisw... (more)

Sibling and power short, Colorado & Southern, borrowed parent's F7's.

BN 1755 West passes a track gang and upper-quadrant semaphores on the line between Spokane and Pasco as a freight right behind it waits for it to clear.

An ex-Northern Pacific "torpedo boat" leads a Seattle-bound freight toward Seattle.