BN 9732, former GN 366A, built in Oct. 1947 shares space with other vintage power at Auburn, WA in Mary 1975. Sort of a "skies are blue, seas of green" feeling as Cascade Green intrudes ... (more)

GN SW8 no. 98 shows only one hint of BN ownership, the patched out GN initials to the left of the headlight. Interestingly, BN shop crews did not bother to letter BN initials in its place. Another... (more)

GN NW2 sits in the snow by the Harrison St. roundhouse turntable waiting its turn in the shop for servicing. Although this loco was still Great Northern, it did not carry the typical GN logo plaqu... (more)

GN NW5 no. 192 parks next to former Erie Mining F9A no. 4211 among other equipment stored outdoors at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, MN. Their website reports the museum has reopened... (more)

NP 3617 remains parked with other museum equipment during June 2020 due to the COVID-19 shutdown of the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. At least late afternoon sunlight permitted a glimpse of it pa... (more)

VIA 6513 slows the SuperContiental for a passenger stop at Matsqui, BC on the beginning of its trek from Vancouver to eastern Canada. In 1985 most cars were CN heritage. This train had a former CP... (more)

CN 5436 pops out of a tunnel and crosses Ainsley Creek as its container train heads south towards Boston Bar, BC along the Fraser River Canyon.

CN 5028 and 5208 mate up on a westbound freight stopped at Ranier, MN for customs prior to crossing into Ft. Francis, ON and continuing on to Symington Yard at Winnipeg, MB.

CN 5414 takes a rest at Stone Lake, WI while CN 5437 gets the honors of running the local south today to Owen, WI and back. CN uses this small facility to support locals serving the Hayward, WI ar... (more)

WC 6630 descends Byron Hill at Church Road on its last lap into Fond du Lac, WI from Chicago. The train will be re-classified at Shops Yard, North Fond du Lac with traffic branching out in a varie... (more)

A pair of Soo Line SD40As are assigned together on an eastbound freight from Portage to Milwaukee and are working the interchange at Duplainville, WI with Wisconsin Central, which bought Soo Line'... (more)

Thief River Falls was once an important division point for Soo Line and rated this subtantial depot. The main tracks are just to the right of the building and remain one of two key lines connectin... (more)

After travelling across western Canada, we turned south at Winnipeg and crossed into Minnesota at Noyes. Just south, a northbound Soo Line train was completing its trek from Minneapolis to Noyes/E... (more)

I was a newcomer to Seattle in summer 1974, and a GN fan. What a pleasant surprise it was to come across GN 98, an SW8 built a few weeks after I was born, in June 1951, still wearing its GN number... (more)

By late 1970 things were pretty quite around the Minneapolis BN station. Only a handful of passenger trains made it to BN from its predecessors. I was wandering around the platform when all of a s... (more)