CN's rather elusive Council Bluffs local heads west through the broad curve at Woodbine with a nice pair of former Oakway SD60s leading. Union Pacific's Boone Subdivision can be seen in the backgr... (more)

CN 5457 leads a local based out of Stone Lake, WI north at Metcalf Rd. on its way to interchange traffic with Wisconsin Great Northern at Hayward Jct., about 8 miles north of here. The train handl... (more)

CN 5457 sits in Northtown Yard waiting for clearance to depart toward New Brighton.

CN 5457 leads its local, entirely consisting of log loads, through Ladysmith after taking time to stop the train and turn the locomotive so the crew would have it short hood front. Fortunately Lad... (more)

CN SD60 no. 5457 has wyed and backs up the main to its train. It rolls by "Old Smoky", a Soo Line Mikado, no. 1011, which has been on display at Ladysmith since its retirement. Sister en... (more)

CN SD60 no. 5457 handling a local train of logs left the train north of downtown Ladysmith in order to run the locomotive around the wye tracks and set it up short hood front for the remainder of ... (more)

The Cedar River local now has 2 crews that work mainly Monday thru Friday. There is really no set time for start times or dedicated work for either job, so you never know when they will show up ar... (more)

The Cedar River now has 2 full crews to work the Osage Sub Monday-Friday. Normal an early morning and mid afternoon start times for the crews. Here the afternoon crew makes a Waterloo turn and is ... (more)

NS 16T with a Canadian visitor on the lead dusts off the trestle at Compton.

Big and small EMD. Two generations of EMD power (SD60 CN 5457 & GP9 CN 4129) lead CN 527 towards nearby Taschereau Yard on a very humid afternoon.

CN Q116 is tied at Johnson Avenue in Pontiac awaiting a recrew that will take this train to the former DT&I yard in Flat Rock.

A fresh rebuild from Centralia, IL speeds away from Dalehurst on CN's Edson Sub with train A417. Even the switch broom is fresh!

Fresh from an overhaul, CN SD60 5457 eases train A417 into the siding at Hinton. L513's train awaits a crew beside them in the yard. Gotta love those standard cabs.

A now retired and scrapped SD50F leads three other engines towards the yard to make a set off before heading to Chicago.

Interested in buying a couple of locomotives to recreate a scene simular to this? The CN 5457 and IC 6057 are now off the CN roster and could be yours, they are up for sale during the CN 2009 surp... (more)