A CP crew member from a westbound freight led by CP 5825 is ready to inspect the eastbound freight led by CP 5809 at Nicomen siding east of Hope, BC on CP's mainline through the Fraser Canyon. the... (more)

CP 8612 assigned to the Mission Turn out of Coquitlam Yard waits to put its return train together while a detouring CN freight out of Vancouver, BC diverts off the CP main to cross the Fraser Rive... (more)

A C&NW freight featuring a block of wood chip loads behind the power, rolls east through Eau Claire just minutes away from arriving at Altoona Yard. this stretch of track, part of UP's mainline be... (more)

Northern Alberta GMD GP9 204 and 209 at Edmonton, Alberta. On January 01, 1981 CN Rail bought out CPR's share in the NAR system and incorporated those Lines into the CN network.

CNW 821 is on Milwaukee Road tracks as it passes thru Sparta, WI at dusk in April of 1976. Bob Ferge Kodachrome from my collection.

I never tire of seeing SD45s, having grown up with these C&NW behemoths. These were probably my favorite as the flares really stuck out with no dynamic brakes. Later that would cause an earlier th... (more)

We're nearly two years into the BNSF merger and plenty of colorful lashups can be seen, such as on this westbound train in Spokane Valley, WA.

Running long-hood forward, a pair of CNW EMDs bring a manifest train west along the IHB. Tom Golden photo.

A trio of ICG EMDs leads a coal train through Gilman, IL. Paul Meyer photo.

LZ3117 is the yard goat, putting together a Perth-Melbourne intermodal train. So much in this photo has changed. The L Class are all stored, Aurizon no longer operates intermodal trains and For... (more)

The Cornell local, a turn from Altoona to Cornell, WI has just left the mainline at Yukon Jct. in Eau Claire and is headed north to Chippewa Falls, where it will get onto the Cornell branch for a ... (more)

Santa Fe SF30C #9518 painted in the SPSF merger colors leads a leased and renumber Conrail SD40-2 and a Santa Fe GP39-2 Southbound at the North entrance to the Air Force Academy.

The overnight freighter from West Kalgoorlie is on approach to Kwinana yard behind LZ3117 & LZ3109. These two locomotives and all the remaining active members of its class are expected to be stowe... (more)

A C&NW local rolls west past the C&NW passenger station at Eau Claire, WI. The railroad still used the station at this time for the freight agent, but in several years it would be torn down. At th... (more)

Northern Pacific GE U28Cs numbered 2800-2811 rated at 3,000 HP, and had 3,500-gallon fuel tanks.