WC was working through its first winter in Jan. of 88 and operations were a bit of a struggle. SDL 585 still in the infamous Soo "bandit" scheme works west at Caffey pushing the Russell plow that ... (more)

CNW ten-wheeler 1385 roamed the system for a number of years. Like any later day steam, it tended to draw big crowds wherever it went. Here I caught it during a quiet moment mingling with the Alco... (more)

Oddly enough this Nekoosa Papers Alco looked like it had been recently painted and then shoved out of the shop onto a track that was dis-connected and the unit was off the track with at least one ... (more)

SR 5037 flies along southbound with an 8 car local near Mason. The sun had just made it high enough in the sky to light the scene on this mid April morning. This was one well maintained mainline a... (more)

CNW 6722 sits out a sunny March day in Adams. The C628's ran around in varying stages of ex N&W black or blue for a few months after purchase as power short CNW put most of them to work with just ... (more)

In fine N&W and Southern tradition a westbound hopper train departs Bluefield with 6615 leading 8605....long hood forward of course. By the time of this photo most trains I shot on this trip were ... (more)

The CNW always kind of reminded me of a PRR of the mid-west, not as far as profits went but in the terms of motive power. The CNW seemed to have tried nearly every unit that just about anyone prod... (more)

NS 1605, SR 3243, NS 9720, NS 1385 head east out of Mullens on one of the coal branches that seemed to litter the area. I had always been interested in the area as my grandfather had been born in ... (more)

The sun had nearly set both literally and figuratively on the CNW Alco fleet when I shot this photo of the 6725 and 6720 muscling a cut of loads up to the dumper shed in the last light of a May ev... (more)

The C628 fleet on CNW pulled its last ore train around Christmas 1986. The 25 surviving units were then stored in Escanaba until 1990 as the CNW tried to sell the lines north of Green Bay like the... (more)

A friendly engineer assigned to the Antoine Turn decided to unleash his set of C628's just as I was about to click the shutter on this beautiful November morning. The units had been idling for a f... (more)

Still looking pretty good in it's Ex NP paint(except for a mismatched battery box door) BN 5667 suns itself at Daytons Bluff. The U25/28C's spent a good amount of their time in coal service after ... (more)

N&W 8505 and NS 6557 smoke it up and rattle a few windows as they accelerate away from a meet at McDonough. The N&W C36-7 was a nice sight leading a train by this date as the NS paint had nearly c... (more)

BN 6443 with some GN green and orange already bleeding through it's fairly recent coat of "big sky blue" paint rests along with a GN F and a couple of CB&Q U-boats at Hillyard. Hillyard was soon d... (more)

Two of the four trouble plagued CNW RS-27's rest on the turntable at Council Bluffs. The CNW had many problems with these units and they only lasted from March 1962 until February 10, 1966 on the ... (more)