BN 766 leads a 5 unit set of power at a snowy service area in BN's Belknap Yard near downtown Superior, WI. The former GN facility became BN's main yard for the Twin Ports for non-iron ore traffic... (more)

BN GP7 1582 leads a 6 unit consist of Geeps and SDs as it handles a pickup and set out at Savanna, IL on a snowless early January morning in 1976. Savanna was a crew change and junction point for... (more)

BN 81, still in GN paint and lettering, retained its GN number and spent most if not all its life in Seattle. I moved to Seattle in summer 1974 and would see it around town, often at or near King ... (more)

DMIR 406 has pulled its empty ore cars off the CN ore dock located in the Duluth harbor. The train is awaiting clearance to proceed up Proctor Hill and return to Proctor Yard. Later a different cr... (more)

DMIR 406 pulls empty ore cars from the CN ore dock located in the Duluth harbor. The dock is the last operable one in Duluth. Under the dock is trackage used by CN, CP, BNSF and UP to access Dulut... (more)

CN SD60 no. 5423 heads eastward toward Chippewa Falls after working a Colfax lumber facility and an ethanol plant at Boyceville, making for a relatively short day for its crew. It is about to cros... (more)

CN SD60 no. 5423 leads its local west toward Boyceville, WI at Wheeler. The turn out of Chippewa Falls will do some switching at the ethanol plant at Boyceville, then head back east to Chippewa Fa... (more)

UP DD40AX 6945 and mate get serviced at Albina Yard in Portland, OR after handling a priority freight west over the Blue Mountains and through the Columbia River Gorge. The line east from Portland... (more)

UP 3607, an SD45 rumble across the swing bridge just west of the UP Tacoma yard. Once across it will immediately swing north onto the BN mainline which it shares for the run to Portland, OR. The t... (more)

A quartet of UP power led by SD40 UP3032 followed by two GP30Bs and a GP30 await their call to duty at Butte, MT. The caboose and piggyback car will no doubt be on the train which will pick up car... (more)

An eastbound runthrough freight from North Platte, NE to Chicago (Proviso Yard) slows to a stop to change from UP to CNW crews. I would join the crew with a couple others from CNW's Corporate Indu... (more)

C&S 832 suns itself in Denver, CO showing off the distinctions between a Phase 4 SD9 and earlier versions. The Phase 3&4 models had two 48 inch fans over the radiator, vs 4 36 in. fans on Phases 1... (more)

BN 6919 has its westbound freight tucked into the siding at Odessa, WA as an eastbound meets it. Odessa is about halfway between Spokane and Wenatchee, WA on the former GN mainline.

Back in 1977 it was not uncommon for BN to make light engine moves between Interbay/Seattle and Auburn yard or Tacoma. I was lucky to catch this consist led by BN 1922, a former NP GP9, with steam... (more)

A nice mix of EMD power led by BN SD45 no. 6512 climbs the one percent grade of the Chumstick cutoff west of Leavenworth, heading from Wenatchee to Seattle via the Cascade Tunnel under Stevens Pas... (more)