CNW 8602,8625 head a loaded ore train toward Escanaba. The wide cab GE's were not normally assigned to this service, but had brought an all rail train up from Chicago to load at Empire Mine and we... (more)

The dynamic brakes are whining as CNW 6888,6847,6835 are dropping down into Escanaba with loaded ore on a late November afternoon. A year ago it would have been a set of C628's. The big Alcos are ... (more)

CNW 6710,6724,6707 east with ore loads at Brampton.

Sitting near the roundhouse at N.Green Bay is C&NW 1493. It was a former MKT unit that was re-engined by EMD in 1958. C&NW picked it up in 1973 after MKT retired it and sold it to PNC. It was reti... (more)

C&NW 6824 and 6927 curve off the LS&I onto home rails at Palmer Line Junction, next stop will be Partridge and then they will be off to Escanaba working a couple stops along the way with the eastb... (more)

CNW 6729,6712,4140 chug out of Powers with ESGBA. The smaller 4 axle Alcos have already been withdrawn from service and the C628's will only last until the end of the year before joining them in t... (more)

C&NW 6824,6827 curve east through the big rock cut on the LS&I after picking up some freight at Eagle Mills yard.

Not long after being transferred from Huron S.D. C425's 403,404 work the Number 6 yard at Escanaba. The movement of the 4 axle Alcos east allowed C&NW to retire the remaining Baldwin-EMD hybrids a... (more)

Rusting, faded and dirty, C&NW Mongrel 1506 waits for a spot in the house for some patchwork repair to be done, to get her back switching the ore yard in Escanaba. The unit was re-engined in 1959 ... (more)

A pair of big CNW C628's swing around the connection at Duck Creek with the daily Escanaba-Green Bay freight. The line heading straight west in the photo went to Wausau and at one time lead off to... (more)

C&NW 8053 finds itself on its old home turf, even though the Union Pacific own the track at this date.

C&NW 4255,4256 are eastbound on the Iron Mountain-Powers turn with 8 loads of paper headed to the connection with the Escanaba-Green Bay freight. Normal power on this train was one unit, but if th... (more)

A long way from hot Falcon service that they were originally bought for the now high mileage 5065 and 5090 find themselves on a much slower portion of the Northwestern, lugging 55 cars of mainly p... (more)

CNW's only RS-11 rests at the Escanaba Roundhouse. This unit was normally assigned to the Powers-Iron Mountain job.

The C&NW C628 fleet is stored for good as it turns out and here we have the replacements. SD60's 8045,8046 pass through West Gladstone with 100 loads heading for the dock.