A unit train carrying sand in loaded low gons pulls south into Butler Yard on the Roundhouse lead where it will tie down for the night.

Busy Butler Yard
A Chicago and North Western train led by SD45 No. 946 waits for a new crew on the westbound main, as two other trains make setouts/pickups at Butler Yard at Butler, Wis... (more)

Meet at Butler
Chicago and North Western SD40-2 No. 6810 has a new crew and is ready to leave Butler Yard, Wisconsin, on March 2, 1986. A westbound train sits on the other main with two... (more)

Christmas night at Butler
On the quiet eve of December 25, 1994, a collection of Chicago and North Western locomotives slumber the night away at Butler, Wisconsin. A GP15-1 faces a new ... (more)

A Chicago and North Western freight headed for Green Bay, Wisconsin, leaves Butler Yard on a June 1984 afternoon. The train is powered by four of C&NW’s venerable GP7s.

After a good rain storm, a Chicago and North Western potash train from Canada, enters a soggy Butler Yard on September 7, 1985. Three EMD SD40-2s power the train, and stored locomotives that inclu... (more)

Quiet winter day
On a peaceful and snowy day in January 1984, two Alco C628s keep the usual gaggle of GP7s company in the Chicago and North Western engine facility at Butler Yard, Wisco... (more)

On December 3, 1990, Chicago and North Western’s PRGBA (Proviso Yard to Green Bay freight) has finished making a setout at Butler Yard. Snow is coming down hard, and is starting to cover the rai... (more)

An unusual power set leads a Chicago and North Western train leaving Butler Yard, Wisconsin, on a dreary May 15, 1985. Executive F7 No. 403 is leading two SD40s, one each of C&NW and Conrail, on t... (more)

Chicago and North Western's train from Green Bay, Wisconsin, enters Butler Yard after encountering some snow on the trip south in December 1983. Powering the train are five GP7s, a GP15-1 and an A... (more)

Chicago and North Western SD40-2 No. 6860 leads a freight at Butler Yard, Wisconsin, on a snowy February 20, 1986. Trailing is a former (still in green) Burlington Northern SD45 and two GP7s.

New in Zito yellow
A pair of new Chicago and North Western EMD SD50s pulling a coal train prepares to depart Butler Yard, Wisconsin, on March 30, 1986.

A cold winter rain falls upon a set of Chicago and North Western coal train power laying over at Butler Yard on a December 1983 night. The C&NW SD40-2 is joined by two run-through Burlington North... (more)

One of the few (maybe the only) times a former LS&I Alco RSD-15 “Alligator” led a Fox River Valley train. The freight is entering Butler Yard on the C&NW on a cold February 24, 1990. Trailing ... (more)

On a December 1983 evening, Chicago and North Western power rests through a swirling snowstorm at Butler Yard, Wisconsin.