BN train 2 heavy as usual with TOFC arrives at the west end of N. La Crosse yard lead by a typical BN consist for the mid eighties. Power this day is GP50's 3141 and 3140 spliced with B30-7A 4043.

LS&I 1604 is coupled to a pair 40 foot newsprint service cars as it waits to shove them into the Kimberly-Clark Munising Plant. The 1604 was LS&I's last operable RS-3 and was maintained to operate... (more)

VIA RDC's 6205,6250 speed west near Levack. The tri-weekly Budds operating between Sudbury and White River were quite a sight mixed in with CPR's heavy intermodel traffic that ran the corridor in ... (more)

CP C424's 4222,4248,4234 have 100 cars in tow as they approach Sault Ste. Marie on a surprisingly snow less mid December day. It was a surprise catching 911 with this many cars by this late date a... (more)

Train 401 was the hottest train passing through Cartier in the early 90's. It was a Toronto-Vancouver job and was in the Sudbury area early morning. Power was normally three SD40-2's, In this bitt... (more)

BN 9488, BNSF 9821, BN 9524 move coal loads east under a beautiful sky west of Moorcroft.

WC train 35 with 8939,6543,589,712 arrives at Trout Lake with 37 cars. Power for the Marquette local in the form of a pair of SDL39's waits in the distance for 35 to make a set out and then clear ... (more)

WC 831, 6539 work west near Trout Lake with 42 cars on train 34. The 831 was aquired in the GBW/FRV merger while the trailing ex BN SD was aquired by WC at start up. Train 34 tended to be a late a... (more)

In the last light of day PNC 1849,1844 lead 143 cars of a westbound extra about to cross the Milwaukee at Grand Crossing Tower.

As BN moved through the eighties they experimented with some different looks on the noses of their units. Tiger stripes were tried on a handful of SD60's/SD40-2's and then arrived in a big way on ... (more)

BN 7140,7080,5907,5391 slowly pass the BN station with eastbound coal loads. It was a long time ago but if I remember correctly the BN line looked like it had recently had ballast and ribbon rail ... (more)

A hike out to the west end of the long lead at Cartier yielded this photo of an extra train 403 just starting to get a roll on after waiting out a meet with the VIA RDC's and train 472 which you c... (more)

MEC 256,260,257,406 are about to depart St. J with 36 cars and will soon be making their way over the mountains on the line that passed through Crawford Notch.

GB&W train 2 powered by C424's 313,311 along with 55 cars arrives at Merrillian in the summer of 1983.

BN 1980 departs N. LaCrosse yard with a 6 car eastbound local during the summer of 1986.