Geeps old and new sit at Blue Earth with a short grain train. Don't know if a local was based here, or they ran the line in segments or what.

CNW Alco C628 6729 rests at the servicing pit at Proviso Yard alongside other C628s on a fine spring day in 1975. These units were Bought from the Norfolk and western. They would spend most of the... (more)

CNW Days! Everything is CNW in this shot, from the locomotives to the water tower. Proviso Yard, 11/94.

The Chicago and North Western 411 poses at IRM.

Big country! At lease two entire trains can be seen in the photo front to back. CNW C44-9W's 8640, 8621, and two SD40-2's 6809 on the back, have their train stretched out in the powder river basin... (more)

Powered by a pair of GE C40-8 locomotives, a westbound Chicago & North Western coal empty heading back to Wyoming for reloading, slices through Illinois farm country as it approaches Agnew on Octo... (more)

Tom Golden photo.

The sun sets as CNW 6847 and UP 1848 rest at the Illinois Railway Museum.

CNW's St. Francis Tower was a busy place at one time. It controlled the junction between the passenger mainline to downtown Milwaukee and the freight bypass to Butler. It also controlled the junct... (more)

Originally built as a SD45 for the Pennsy, this unit would be acquired by the CNW in the mid 1980s and rebuilt with a 12-cylinder Caterpillar engine. Tom Golden photo.

With a hearty turn to the right, Creston Road is going the same place as this eastbound Chicago & North Western freight train. In about two thousand feet, both will be traversing through the town ... (more)

A westbound Chicago & North Western grain train passes under a vestige from the historic days of steam locomotives, a substantial concrete coaling tower, still spanning the main line at De Kalb, I... (more)

Three Chicago & North Western ALCO C628's accelerate empty ore jennies through Brampton, Michigan. July 18, 1986

An eastbound Chicago & North Western coal train passes through farmland west of De Kalb, Illinois, on October 9, 1994. A shiny, new combine stands idle for a moment as a farmer takes a break durin... (more)

Small town, Illinois
With horns blazing, an eastbound Chicago & North Western freight crosses Third Street at Malta, Illinois, on March 25, 1995. The old brick buildings lining the sidew... (more)