CB&Q (Burlington Route) #122-A (F3A-F3B-F7B-F7A) near Keenesburg, Colorado; October 18, 1963. Photo part of my slide collection, photographer Ken Crist

A westbound Milwaukee Road freight negotiates tight curves with a new SD40-2 in the lead. The square speakers atop the cab are an electronic bell.

Changing times at Butler
Light snow is falling the day after Christmas in 1995, eight months after Union Pacific’s merger of Chicago & North Western at Butler Yard outside Milwaukee, W... (more)

Weather in Minneapolis is still pretty wintery as a CNW crew handles some switching with a vintage NW2 switch engine of Minneapolis & St. Louis origin. CNW had an NW1 and a couple TR2 sets, but NW... (more)

CNW Alco C628 no. 6720 and mate arrive in Altoona Yard for a crew change and some switching with train 406 from Itasca (Superior), WI. The big Alcos came from Norfolk & Western and were the heavie... (more)

Milwaukee Road owned six of these FM "Baby or Junior Trainmasters", and I've spotted two at St. Paul over the years. The 550 is photographed in Pigs Eye yard handling some switching. I h... (more)

MILW train about to bang across CNW diamonds Des Plaines

CNW Alco S2 no. 1098 is parked at the CNW passenger station in Green Bay. The unit was used to switch passenger cars around as needed, handling the remaining CNW passenger service into and through... (more)

A Dash8 under the sand tower in Council Bluffs yard. Date is approximate.

The crewman of FRVR 2402 gives CNW 8511 a wave as the loaded coal train heads to the junction at St. Francis in April of 1993. It would seem unusual that they would put the coal train ahead of the... (more)

I didn’t manage to make it to Milwaukee Road territory until after its acquisition by the Soo Line. While many of the locomotives were already patched, there were still “pure” MILW units to ... (more)

CNW 54, formerly Chicago Great Western, RS-2 idles in Huron , SD in early October 1980. At this time, the no. 54 was the last RS-2 active on CNW, assigned to Huron which was headquarters for most ... (more)

Having just entered the former Monon Road (presently, in 1983, L&N) mainline from Chicago on trackage rights, a southbound Terre Haute to Louisville manifest tiptoes along J Street while obeying t... (more)

CNW 911 and mate have a good roll on their train as it appears to sail through a sea of corn at Rusk, WI, a few miles east of Menomonie. The train has left Altoona yard and is headed for East Minn... (more)

The throat of the Chicago & North Western yard in Green Bay, Wisconsin is quite in demand as four crews wait their turn to use it. Each crew has a single locomotive, three GP7’s and a C628 in a... (more)