MILW U36C no. 5802 handles a set out and pick up at Milwaukees's yard at Black River Jct. Here the train is using Pacific Coast trackage as a yard lead as it passes by the BN owned tower that prto... (more)

MILW SW1200 no. 630 trundles by new MP15AC as it s crew handles chores in their Seattle yard. Traffic to and from local industries as well as interchange with BN/UP and Puget Sound barge traffic f... (more)

New MP15ACs arrived in Seattle to help Milwaukee Road locomotive reliability during its last few years out West. Nos. 475 and 471 are shown at their Seattle yard in the SODO district south of down... (more)

MLW S-4 switcher no. 7113 leads a block of mixed freight through trackage in CP's waterfront yard along the Burrard Inlet below downtown Vancouver on a rainy June 1976 day. The Action Red scheme s... (more)

MILW 164 leads a mix of SD40-2s and SD10s on a dead freight east as the train eases through downtown street running trackage through Renton, WA. The first leg of the trip east used Pacific Coast R... (more)

Two Milwaukee Road F7 A-B-A sets join forces to drag a Portland bound freight out of Tide Flats Yard. The B units are slugs and the two sets were assigned to Tacoma to handle helper service up the... (more)

Former Chicago Great Western NW2s 1025 and 1017 get ready for duty at Oelwein, IA. Oelwein was the hub of Chicago Great Western, and remained an important yard for CNW into the early 1980s. The di... (more)

MILW 164 leads a dead freight east across the Cedar River just east of Renton, WA. This trackage is owned by BN, formerly Pacific Coast Ry. which had been owned by Great Northern.

The front end brakeman throws the switch as No. 5828 begins to ease its westbound freight on to the mainline at the west end of Field, BC's yard. After a trip through Kicking Horse Canyon, the tra... (more)

CP 5832 on an eastbound freight pauses along side a westbound at Field, BC before ascending Kicking Horse Pass. Note a wreck train parked next to the opposite side of the depot.

The Sumas Turn makes time heading east at Albion, BC on its way to Mission City where it will divert off the mainline and head to the U.S. border at Huntingdon, BC/Sumas, WA. It will interchange w... (more)

This was a common lash up in the mid-70s for transfer jobs as well as the Sumas Turn working out of Pt. Coquitlam near Vancouver. This train is preparing to leave the downtown yards along the Burr... (more)

CP 5811 and 5826 show off their candy cane version of CP Rail Action Red, brightening up the day at Mission City, BC. They have made a brief stop to check in with the depot operator and will soon ... (more)

Milwaukee Road 5802 handles some switching duties at their Black River yard after descending Snoqualmie Pass into the Puget Sound region. The train will set out cars for Seattle, and pick up any f... (more)

One of the Indiana Harbor Belt's SD20's backs on to a cut of autoracks at the railroads Gibson Yard. This locomotive was originally built as a Southern Railway SD24 and was rebuilt into an SD20 by... (more)