CNW 872 waits for a semaphore so it can depart Saint Francis, WI. in November of 1986. The 3 light engines will then head to Oak Creek to pick up an empty coal train. The engines are sitting on wh... (more)

Chicago & North Western’s PRITA, a Proviso to Itasca Yard in Superior freight, curves through North Lake, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of March 30, 1991.

A Chicago & North Western coal train meets some Indiana Harbor Belt locomotives at the north end of C&NW’s Proviso Yard near Grand Avenue in Northlake on December 5, 1987.

CNW 6934 leads an empty coal train north toward Bill, WY from Shawnee along Hwy 59.The UP SD50s in the consist were lettered for MP at this time.

CNW SD40 883, SD45 955 and borrowed CR SD40-2 6509 head south near Haugen, WI with train 406 from Superior to Chicago which handled a lot of CN/DWP interchange traffic.

Out in far western Iowa, we see the Proviso to North Platte freight swinging around the curve west of Woodbine. We were coming east with the CN local 572 which will be on the closet track alittle ... (more)

CNW Also C-425 no. 4258 shares space in North Green Bay's roundhouse with CNW Geep no. 4140. By 1986 Green Bay had replaced the "Alco Line" as the center of Alco locomotives on the railr... (more)

EMD siblings line up at Altoona. SD40-2 no. 6821 is from the second order of SD40-2s that CNW made and was received in February 1974, just as I went to work for C&NW. It survived the UP merger reb... (more)

CNW 205, former CGW 108C, waits alongside the diesel shops to be hostled onto a freight consist for an outbound train from Oelwein. F units were common on trains operating through Oelwein into the... (more)

CNW 4540 is in Oelwein Shops in the process of getting a chopped nose, new plow, major mechanical overhaul and a new paint job. C&NW had an aggressive program of revitalizing its large stable of G... (more)

CNW 252 leads a mid day commuter train on C&NW's "West Line", making a brief stop at Berkeley station. This stop is located immediately south of Proviso Yard which at the time was C&NW's... (more)

CNW 6927 & 6929 lead two Missouri Pacific (yes MP) SD50s on an eastbound coal train near Lost Springs, WY. The train originated north of Bill, WY on the Joint Line (CNW/BN) and the growth of this ... (more)

Chicago & North Western EMD SD18 No. 6633 shows off its new paint job at the railroad’s Proviso Yard locomotive facility at Proviso, Illinois on the morning of March 15, 1992. C&NW acquired a gr... (more)

Chicago & North Western 8614, 8629, and 8527, haul a loaded coal train out of the power river basin. (Tom Ellis photo)

I think I can, I think I can...... CNW 4287 leads a UP C40-8 in this unusual consist about to cross Drexel Avenue in Oak Creek on CNW's New Line. Also of note are the auto/truck frames from A.O. S... (more)