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.

TH&B SW9 no. 58 enjoys the company of a couple of CP Rail EMD switchers at Hamilton yard, Hamilton, ON. Note the concrete coaling tower still standing in 1981.

TH&B caboose no. 81 shows its Canadian Pacific influence as it is basically a modern CP caboose, sharing the same shade of yellow. It was parked at Hamilton yard along with a mix of TH&B and CP po... (more)

CNW 1563 tiptoes across CNW's Chippewa River bridge with the Cornell local out of Altoona. It was slow going with the main running at about 25 mph and the Cornell branch at 10 mph. By 1973 CNW lai... (more)

A quartet of DWP RS11s are joined by a Milwaukee Road SD40-2 on a rainy day at their West Duluth yard in October 1982. In 2 years the yard would be vacated and moved to Pokegama, WI south of Super... (more)

An SP trackage rights train races a westbound freight through Toluca, IL on BNSF's former Santa Fe mainline en route to Kansas City. At this point, SP was already in the UP camp, with many changes... (more)

Before 557 was assigned to a GE Dash 8-40BW, it was assigned to this FM H12-44, which was nearing the end of its career in this view at Corwith Yard, Chicago.

Amtrak's late afternoon Cascades service run from Seattle to Vancouver, BC leaves Seattle, crossing the Ballard draw bridge over the Ballard locks. This double track line was Great Northern's main... (more)

WC 3025 leads train 46 off the WC and onto the Soo Line to get into Milwaukee, WI from Fond Du Lac. On this day the train includes three passenger cars from Quad Graphics, picked up at their plant... (more)

The tide is in as MILW 630 attempt to unload and load a barge on Puget Sound in Seattle. This barge appears to be mostly BC Rail equipment, which would then float to North Vancouver, BC.

MILW GP9 301 and caboose 991905 are parked at Sumner near the depot. this equipment worked the valley between Sumner and Black River Jct., south of Seattle on joint UP-MILW trackage. This included... (more)

CP 5931 starts heading south to the US border and BN interchange at Sumas, WA. The train is on the south leg of the wye with the Mission depot in the background. At this time, CP coal trains also ... (more)

A CP worker does the time honored work of cleaning out a switch with the traditional railroad broom/chisel at North Bend, BC after a weekend blizzard. CP 5819 is ready to roll west down the Fraser... (more)

CNW 6706 and 6705 looking good in their new yellow and green scheme ready a train to head east out of Altoona Yard on a cool January day. At this time eastbound trains 406 and 408 came here from S... (more)

CNW SW1200 1217 gets added tractive effort from BU10 while handling switching chores at Cedar Lake Yard, Minneapolis, MN. BU10 started life as CNW 1266, an Alco S-3 switch engine.