The CN&W use their Oelwein Shops til May 31, 1994. The line from Oelwein from Marshalltown was severed in 1987-88 due to the construction of the highway thru Waterloo. The CNW then used the IANR t... (more)

The St. Paul to Kansas City daily freight train had some unusual motors in the consist. A pair of CP hydrogen locomotives are dead in tow. Each locomotive is painted in a unique paint scheme for t... (more)

Kind of a bummer that the T-birds had CN-AC motors on them last summer. The T-birds work between the mine at Largo and the United Taconite Plant at Fairlane. We were chasing a trio of C40s on a Mi... (more)

Empties at Two Harbors do not leave the way they came in. I believe that's due to the headroom issue at Two Harbors, loads are dumped and then shoved towards an outbound yard. Empties then depart ... (more)

Empties at Two Harbors do not leave the way they came in. I believe that's due to the headroom issue at Two Harbors, loads are dumped and then shoved towards an outbound yard. Empties then depart ... (more)

Restarting on a .42% grade here at Allen Jct, puts these old girls to the test. They show their age as they slowly get 13,000 tons of iron ore moving again after meeting an empty here. This loaded... (more)

This loaded ore train is about 3 miles to the end of their journey. The train came out of Minntac Mine near Mount Iron and is bound for Two Harbors and a boat. The engineer is dragging the brakes ... (more)

The BN ran quite a few St. Paul to Chicago intermodal trains each way along the Aurora Sub daily. The trains were neat to get cause you never knew what they would come with. Hail as an "Exped... (more)

An eastbound intermodal train heads for Chicago during a winter storm with 3-4 axle units. The train is passing thru East Dubuque on the Aurora Sub in the late 90s. Scanned slide from January 1997... (more)

Coal trains on the Santa Fe race track looked out of place. These York Canyon Coal trains were heading to McCook and points east. Usually, these heavy trains got 3-4 big GEs for power. As seen he... (more)

The BN ran 2 intermodal trains to Denver out of Chicago. One ran early morning into Galesburg, and the other one at night. The night one has stayed thru the BNSF era. Train 65 was normally the day... (more)

Th BN tested 4 SD60MAC's and then later in 1993 they placed an order for 350 SD70MAC's. The SD60s were the test bed to what became a huge investment in the coal power fleet with the purchase of th... (more)

An empty coal train from the Brookfield Sub swings around the corner and out the Waterman way towards Graham for another trip back to the coal fields. By 1996 AC power was getting to be common. Sc... (more)

Man, I think these SD70 looked great brand new. BN really got the use out of them the past 30 years. Here, a pair of MACs head south out of Galesburg for coal bound for southern Illinois. The coal... (more)

The BNSF merger was getting closer to reality by May 1995. Galesburg was about to become a major hub in the east with this merger. Lots of things would change, but for now the BN was as is with th... (more)