You can almost hear the clang, clang, clang of that gong bell as this freight moves by in the late afternoon sun. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

Working a customer, with a string of second handers, out on the plains is typical Northwestern. Photo by unknown, from my collection.

A regular denizen of the area, this former Southern SD24 is hauling a big string of cars by the bluffs, one more time. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

Missing number boards and one porthole but still the grand old profile. Photo by unknown, probably Gary Zeitler. From my collection.

Looks a little naked without any number boards up there in front but it is a famous face in the service of the big city as one of its stablemates demonstrates.

The entire train in one shot. A local is working the quintessential industrial city.

That green varied a great deal over the years and on different units. The unit started on NYC, then went to PC, then CR and ended up at the Alco orphanage. Photo by Mike Dolenski, from my collec... (more)

Note the Automatic Train Stop shoe still in place.

Only North Western had these without dynamic brakes. They look a little "funny". And this is an interesting but rather typical consist in those days. They did get some with D/B-equipp... (more)

Photo by Gary Zeitler, from my collection.

Led by CNW 6831, 2nd 245 gets out of Wood St. Yard and crosses over to another track to clear the path for a southbound transfer. A short trip up this line reaches the east-west mainline near the ... (more)

CNW 6831 and mates have attached to a string of trailers on flat cars that will soon leave Wood St. Yard, Chicago as 2nd-245, The Falcon on a 12 hour race over the 500 mile C&NW mainline to the UP... (more)

C&NW branded its 1970s-80s intermodal service as Falcon Service and created a logo featuring a predatory falcon bird and this sign which decorated the yard office at the Henry to Wood St. Yard, Ch... (more)

1 of 3...... CNW 4313 and a short train are about to pass under the Whitnall Avenue bridge on Milwaukee's south side in July of 1983. CNW 4313 is ex-CNW 1520 and ex-EMD 300, one of the 3 original ... (more)

Chicago & North Western EMD GP15-1 No. 4410 and EMD GP7 No. 4144 tug at a long string of coal gons out of the east end of Proviso Yard on September 1, 1991. The train is approaching the 25th Avenu... (more)