CC&P 7989 brings a train past a watchman's tower in Dubuque in Oct of 1989. This scene does not look like this anymore as a new highway has been built to the left of the tracks.
WARNING! The scanner is alive with warnings from a storm that would spawn 6 tornadoes and dump 4-8" of rain in the area. We would eventually take refuge in a concrete farm tunnel under the Hi... (more)
CNW 4331 has derailed near National Avenue in Milwaukee and is waiting to be re-railed. An snowstorm has piled snow perfectly on the engine before the re-railing crew arrives.
SOO 500 and company is looking good in this 1993 photo. A tornado would knock the passenger cars off the tracks in 2002. The train is now under a shed and repainted.