BNSF 6360 leads an eastbound empty coal train along Austin Road east of Austin siding as it descends toward Helena, MT.

CN 3155, an RS18U leads a westbound Tempo train (VIA) out of Toronto Union Station on a sunny afternoon in September 1981. The locomotive was built in 1960 as an RS18 and rebuilt for this service ... (more)

Hoffman Ave. is a busy place in August 1991 with a pair of CNW freight transfers waiting to make their moves out to joint trackage with BN and SOO along Dayton Bluff in St. Paul. The power shows o... (more)

CP 5567 offers assistance to a trio of VIA Fs on an eastbound Canadian out of Vancouver at Ruskin, BC as a result of a winter storm that snarled traffic in the area.

CP 5602 has stopped its eastbound train from Coquitlam at Mission City, BC while the crew checks on conditions ahead in the Fraser Canyon as a result of a winter storm that dumped snow all the way... (more)

GBW Alco C424 no. 314 leads a C430 on its eastbound freight as it gets underway at Merrillan, WI after doing some interchange work with C&NW. It is about to cross the C&NW as it heads east towards... (more)

MILW cow and calf set 695A and B get some support form F7B 69B at the hump at Pigs Eye Yard, St. Paul, MN back in March 1973. It would appear that tonnage was increased to the point where the TR4A... (more)

Things are not what they seem. Former Rock Island GP38-2 now in GT colors has been assigned to the DWP to replace aging Alco RS11s in Duluth. By 1984 they would be re-lettered DWP, and by 1985, th... (more)

Bright yellow F unit faces greet a dismal looking day in March in Minneapolis back in 1973. F units still ruled on CNW's lines south out of Minneapolis/St. Paul. Here a former CGW F3 shares space ... (more)

An Illinois Central Highliner commuter train leaves a station just south of the Conrad Hilton hotel in Chicago and heads south to the suburbs. The Chicago, South Shore & South Bend also used (and ... (more)

ICG SW9 no. 455 and a vintage IC caboose idle between switching chores at Dubuque, IA on a balmy January day in 1976.

MILW SW1200 no. 630 switches cars on and off a barge at Seattle's waterfront in December 1978. Barge service here reached North Vancouver, as well as Puget Sound industries at Pt. Townsend, Pt. Ga... (more)

East meets west at Beverly, WA. Here the westbound radio controlled slave units approach the eastbound power. These units like two of the lead units have not been repainted/lettered with the large... (more)

East meets west at Beverly, WA. Two Milwaukee Road freights meet at the east end of Beverly siding. The eastbound train features Bicentenniel no. 156 mid-consist. A couple of the trailing westboun... (more)

A close up of the rear of GN observation 1196, named City of Spokane brightens up a gray July day in Seattle at King St. Station. The car had come in as a charter on an Amtrak train. Note the BN o... (more)