Orange and black abounds in the joint KCS/SOO Knoche Yard in Kansas City, MO on June 28, 1986 as Rio Grande Tunnel Motor no. 5356 lines up with a trio of MILW GP40s now under Soo Line ownership. T... (more)

SOO 6607 reflects on its future after a thunder shower at Stevens Point. This important Soo Line operating hub would undergo numerous changes within the next year, first becoming Lake States Trans... (more)

The Soo Line acquisition of the Milwaukee Road in 1985 led to a lot of shuffling of equipment. The Soo had a pretty traditional reputation and when they unexpectedly ended up with the Milwaukee it... (more)

Perhaps some of Milwaukee Road's most modern power, a pair of Milwaukee Motor Transport tractors are ready to handle TOFC pickups and deliveries at Kansas City, MO. They are at the Soo Line (X-MIL... (more)

A Conrail TV (trailer van) train makes good time heading east after servicing at Cleveland, OH's Collinwood yard. The former NYC bay window caboose displays perhaps the smallest bay windows applie... (more)

NP caboose no. 10780 has reached the end of the line at Duluth, MN in September 1970. It appears it had a slight incident involving the rear steps, enough no doubt to cause its retirement since it... (more)

Santa Fe extended vision caboose brings up the rear of an intermodal freight at MP 233 from Chicago in Ft. Madison, IA on Santa Fe's Chicago-Kansas City speedway.

Conrail GP40 no. 3268 leads a pair of CR GP40-2s on a run through train on the Santa Fe at Ft. Madison, IA heading from Kansas City (Argentine) to the Streator, IL connection that circumvents Chic... (more)

BN 714, former NP 6008D, enjoys some of its last days on BN property. The F7A was sold to Jos. Simon & Sons March 28, 1973. However, BN 714 lived on as a number, replaced by former SP&S no. 803.

Former CB&Q GP20, BN no. 2042, waits for an assignment at North La Crosse at the former Burlington roundhouse alongside a row of freight car wheels. Except for the renumbering, the unit remains pu... (more)

A pair of former CB&Q NW2s rolls a very short transfer job east on the former Great Northern mainline on the north side of the GN station. Most likely its bringing a car from Lyndale yard back to ... (more)

A pair of X-GN F45s mate up with a former CB&Q SD45 at Cicero, IL on a dreary March day in 1974. Newer BN units are in the background along with an older GE unit.

The former Great Northern depot at Mora, MN shows off its Big Sky Blue trim two years after the BN merger. It eventually got BN green trim, and still stands today although the track is now gone. T... (more)

BN 6117, former Great Northern SD9 no. 590, sits at Brook Park, MN. The engineer is relaxing in the cab while the morning Badger arrives and lets off a couple passengers on its way to Duluth. In t... (more)

UP 1140 holds at Baldwin, WI with its local turn out of Altoona, WI for a track warrant update. The train has several cars for Hudson, WI and will soon proceed west, handle its switching, then ret... (more)