The former Milwaukee Road depot at Red Wing, MN has been nicely restored and remains in service as an Amtrak stop for the Empire Builder as well as providing space for an art gallery. It is locate... (more)

BNSF 8933 joins literally hundreds of other SD70MACs and older GE power in storage at Donkey Creek, WY. Newer motive power and reduced coal demand have created a lot of stored power on BNSF and ot... (more)

Black Hills Central GE 80 tonner is parked next to their tourist passenger train at Hill City, SD. The train on the left had recently arrived from its round trip to Keystone pulled by steamer no. ... (more)

DMIR 310, a rebuilt SD18 classified by Missabe as an SD-M, gets a new lease on life at the elevator complex in Pierre, SD, handling switching chores as needed. Pierre is served by the Rapid City, ... (more)

WC SD45s nos. 7517 and 6530 roll north out of Duplainville with a train received from CSX at Chicago headed to North Fond Du Lac and Shops Yard.

Wisconsin Central 1550 and 1552 pair up at North Fond Du Lac, both in the pine tree scheme. However, 1552 received the paint using the newer dulux gold instead of the older cream used on 1550. No.... (more)

Wisconsin Central made SW1500(RS) switch engines an important component of their locomotive fleet after their Oct. 11, 1987 start up. Some came from SP origin, some from NS. Here the 1561 and 1556... (more)

BN 9732, a former GN passenger F3A mates up with an x-GN passegner F7B and former NP F7A at Auburn, WA where they were assigned at the time for transfer service and regional freights between the C... (more)

Former passenger F no. 9726 of GN heritage is mated up with NP F7A no. 756 at BN's Auburn Yard, located halfway between Seattle and Tacoma, WA on the former NP mainline. The yard was reduced in im... (more)

About 60 days are left in the history of the Great Northern Ry. on this cold early January 1970 afternoon. GP20 2011 displays its historic color scheme, minus the GREAT NORTHERN lettering on the l... (more)

DWP 5909 rushes west with intermodal freight on a CN haulage train on BN's mainline from Chicago to the Twin Ciites at Flag Center, IL. This agreement was put in place after the 1985 acquisition o... (more)

In 1983 CN was working closely with Milwaukee Road which its GTW subsiduary was trying to acquire. Here a MILW SD40-2 handles a westbound freight into Symington Yards near Dufresne, MB on CN's mai... (more)

If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there. Well for CN 1274's crew that's not a problem. The wye at the end of the Fraser River bridge between New Westminster and Pt. Mann ... (more)

Soo Line GP30 703 seems to be crying out for help at the small museum at Colfax, WI. The museum has a variety of interesting equipment and could use the support of any rail enthusiasts to help get... (more)

Just when you think winter is getting easier to handle, a Wisconsin blizzard will show up and set you straight. That was the case in February 1992 as SOO 6012 met a snowplow's work at Duplainville... (more)