Doing what Alco's do best, CNW 6710 smokes it up as it departs Brampton, MI in May of 1986 after meeting an empty ore train heading north. Not much ore traffic remains on this line since Empire mi... (more)

Loaded with “Pink Lady” quartz ballast from the company-owned Rock Springs quarry, a Chicago & North Western ballast train departs Janesville, Wisconsin, on the morning of July 8, 1995. The ea... (more)

CNW Alco Rs11 4251 and C425 402 wait for there next job on a sunny morning in the summer of 1981. This was Alco country on the North Western. the 4251 was CNWs only High nose RS11

A pair of Chicago & North Western EMD GP7s takes a break from switching chores at Butler in a Wisconsin snowstorm on January 10, 1993, as C&NW’s Proviso to Itasca freight finishes up making a pi... (more)

An empty Chicago & North Western unit coal train rolls past milepost 110 through Walker, Wyoming, on the afternoon of July 25, 1992. The train is headed back to load at one of the mines in Powder ... (more)

On its very first run, brand new Chicago & North Western GE C44-9W No. 8603 is paired up with vintage C&NW GP7 No. 4323 switching a train of coal empties on the spur into Sheboygan Power Plant at ... (more)

A westbound Chicago & North Western Railway freight crosses over Diggins Street as it passes through Harvard, Illinois, on its way Janesville, Wisconsin, on June 13, 1993.

Metra's CNW heritage unit shares the lower coach storage yard in Kenosha with an older F40 on a cold Sunday afternoon. METX 90 is the former Amtrak 467.

Two Chicago & North Western C628’s show off their sleek profiles in Escanaba, Michigan. I believe that the building to the right is the shed where ore cars were unloaded.

UP's Proviso to Gateway Yard train has a classic consist up front, with all CN&W locomotives on the point and some classic Wisconsin Central box cars in tow.

A train of empty ore jennies is ready to return to the ore mines from Chicago & North Western’s yard in Escanaba, Michigan. Three ex-Norfolk & Western high-hood C628’s provide the power.

In 1994 C&NW is still an independent operation, although dependent upon UP for its livelihood to a large extent. UP functioned as a bridge line for Powder River coal traffic between South Morrill,... (more)

BILL WYO
New General Electric C44-9Ws are lined up at Bill, Wyoming, ready to haul Chicago & North Western coal trains on the Orin Line in Powder River Basin on July 7, 1994. The unique... (more)

a pair of Northwestern SD40-2's lead a transfer train past the old C&WI 40th Street tower in Chicago Illinois

CNW 8023 with Conrail 6212 leads an American President Lines double-stacker out of the crew change point of Fremont, NE. It was one week later that C&NW was merged into UP, although C&NW run-throu... (more)