Alittle heritage can still be found along the Iowa Northern's Oelwein Sub between Waterloo and Oelwein. This was the Chicago Great Western's mainline to Kansas City from Oelwein. The CGW once had ... (more)

MILW 292, one of Milwaukee Roads large purchase of late phase GP9s for mainline freight service, built in April 1959, idles at Red Wing, MN, reduced to switching and local work by the acquisition ... (more)

A pair of TP&W SD40-2s pull a cut of cars from Incobrasa Industries on the west side of Gilman.

On the Fourth of July 1989, a northbound Burlington Northern coal train passes by the siding at Walker as it heads for a Powder River Basin coal mine. BN GE C30-7 No. 5037 leads a quartet of EMD S... (more)

Five Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2s in the 7200-series, spliced by a fuel tender, take a northbound coal empty toward Bill, Wyoming, for eventual loading in Powder River Basin on May 12, 1995. BN... (more)

Westbound Toledo, Peoria and Western train waits to cross the busyCN diamond in Gilman.

A trio of Chessie System GP15Ts is seen departing the east end of Barr Yard. Tom Golden photo.

A Southeast Kansas Railroad (SEK) train is making the daily interchange to the KCS at Pittsburg, KS. In the consist is a nice representation of Watco power: SKOL2211 (ex PRR/CR GP30), SEK117 (ex ... (more)

During the fall harvest seasons in the mid-1970s, the Chicago & North Western would bring out the fleet of elderly F3 and F7 locomotives to assist in handling the increased traffic level. Unknown... (more)

Milwaukee Road GP9 276 is on the IHB and about to pass under the BN racetrack.

N&W GP9 648 leads a westbound GP9-C425-GP9-GP30 combination on the former Wabash mainline across the C&O at Romulus, Michigan. We had stopped in the tower (obscured by the train) to find out if t... (more)

CNW 6812 leads a westbound freight towards Rodell, WI, location of a passing siding east of Fall Creek. It will head into the siding for a meet before finishing its trip into Altoona, about 10 mil... (more)

A bull crosses Echeta Road as a pair of Burlington Northern SD40-2s hustle an eastbound “Z’ train past milepost 627 through Croton, Wyoming, on the morning of June 14, 1997. Croton is located ... (more)

Former KCS 4103 is now working for the SKOL as it leads a dog's breakfast lashup about to cross the UP/MP diamond at Benedict, KS. Also in the consist is ex Ohio Central GP35 6629, ex CCP GP8 1505... (more)

CNW 1674 prepares to enter N. Fond du Lac yard in February of 1974. Fran Weiner image from my collection.