The cab end view of freshly painted CNW 1280 is seen at the Wisconsin Great Northern facilities at Trego, WI. The CNW victory striped Route of the 400 scheme had to be one of the better schemes of... (more)

Freshly painted CNW 1280 is seen at the Wisconsin Great Northern facilities at Trego, WI. My understanding is this was debuted as a surprise for the CNW Ry. Historical Society meeting held here in... (more)

Freshly painted LSM GE center cab switch engine shows off its color at the Wisconsin Great Northern facilities at Trego, WI. LSM runs tourist trains in the Duluth, MN area on trackage that the ori... (more)

Soo Line 559 was handling excursions trains in early September for the Osceola & St. Croix Valley Ry. which operates on several miles of CN (former SOO) trackage both east and west from the depot.... (more)

The CN turn that runs west from Irvine Yard at Chippewa Falls, WI nears the end of its work day as it approaches the Hwy. F grade crossing. The crew will arrive back at the yard and switch cars fo... (more)

A bit of Acne graces the face of BN 9943, an E8 in Amtrak service at North La Crosse, WI. The engineer is ready to go with the Chicago bound Empire Builder having loaded passengers and undergone m... (more)

CGW no.622 is stored dead next to work equipment at East St. Paul Yard located along CNW's mainline out ot St. Paul to Chicago. Although there are no visible CNW initials, technically this was CNW... (more)

CNW SW1200 no. 1216 mates up with slug no. BU 8 to handle switching on a cool January afternoon at Cedar Lake Yard in Minneapolis. Slug BU 8 was rebuilt in October 1964 from SW1 no. 1209. CNW rebu... (more)

ATSF 2395 and mate sit on the side lines at Archer Avenue Yard south of downtown Chicago. The two steam generator equipped Alco RS-1s are no longer needed for passenger terminal switching with the... (more)

Six Santa Fe F units are lined up at their Archer Avenue passenger engine facility south of downtown Chicago. The units are under Amtrak operation at this point and are being readied for an outbou... (more)

CN 2263 brings up the rear of a train of covered hoppers descending Byron Hill on its way into North Fond Du Lac's Shops Yard.

CN 8941 goes into dynamic braking as its train begins the descent of Byron Hill south of Fond Du Lac, WI. The train is a lengthy string of grain cars, and GE CN 2263 will be on the rear as a DPU h... (more)

MRL 4406 leads the morning gas train east towards Missoula at the top of Evaro Hill, nearing the end of its return trip from East Thompson Falls, MT.

BNSF 8054 leads a westbound freight over a creek along the Clark Fork at Tuscor, MT on Montana Rail Link on NP's former mainline.

BNSF 6039 leads an empty coal train east across the causeway on the northwest end of Lake Pend Oreille on Montana Rail Link. The train entered MRL trackage at Ponderay and will run the length of t... (more)