Fourth of July weekend in 1969 produced a healthy sized consist for GN's Badger/Gopher passenger trains operated between Superior, WI and St. Paul, MN. The consist was laying over between runs at ... (more)

Three F units guide Burlington Northern’s westbound Train 25, "North Coast Limited,” upstream along the Jefferson River at Willow Creek, Montana on March 21, 1971, six weeks before the bi... (more)

Great Northern’s 4-car Train No. 323 leaves CN and GN’s depot at Vancouver, B.C., headed for Seattle on April 10, 1969. Even though one of GN’s boiler-equipped SDP-40’s leads the train, a... (more)

During Great Northern’s “Big Sky Blue" era, eastbound Train 28 Western Star makes its station stop at Whitefish, Montana on April 9, 1969. Boiler-equipped SDP-40 322 and its two F unit m... (more)

Westbound Western Star.

The Mainstreeter not too long before the end.

BN 9900 was the only E unit owned by the SP&S and was numbered 750 with that railroad. It teams up with an FP7 to lead tr. 22, the Portland connection for the EMPIRE BUILDER. I rode the sleeping c... (more)

NP North Coast Limited No. 26 is about to depart Butte, Mont. at 7:45 a.m. on its run to Chicago, 1544 miles yet to go.

An F9 leads an A-B-A set as train 25, NORTH COAST LIMITED, arrives in Seattle.

With three EMD F9's, Northern Pacific's westbound flagship "North Coast Limited," Train 25, ascends the east side of 6,356-ft. Homestake Pass near Whitehall, Montana. Next stop is Butte.

One of the most popular passenger paint schemes, Northern Pacific's "North Coast Limited" Train 25 negotiates Homestake Pass in Montana, westbound on April 10, 1970. Butte will be the next stop, ... (more)

A set of Northern Pacific power and psgr cars is leaving the GN station just after the merger. Unit number is a BN number.

NP 6702C leads train 2 at Jamestown. ND. Lots of head- end traffic on train 2. This photo has been in my collection, no photographer listed.

Four elephant-style Es lead the combined Afternoon Zephyr, North Coast Limited, and Empire Builder. In the summer under the CB&Q it was three trains but it (they) didn't have another summer. Tod... (more)

GN 325 leads an eastbound that I would assume is the Empire Builder near Inverness, MT. Scanned from an Ektachrome transparency that is part of my collection but was not shot by me. No photographe... (more)