As a C&NW employee located in the Seattle area if was always heart warming to see C&NW locos come to town, mostly on Union Pacific. This trio led by Fast Forty 8037 featured CNW 6802, their second... (more)

UP DD35A 84 and a pair of SD24Bs make a move to attach to a southbound freight at Argo Yard, Seattle on a rainy August day that looks more like November. This was Family Days weekend and a small l... (more)

UP GP38-2 2038 leads a trio of unique B units, GP30B, SD24B and GP9 or 20B, south next to Days Island en route to Portland from Seattle on BN owned trackage. UP had an interesting fleet of motive ... (more)

UP NW2 no.1065 reflects on the fact it was one of the oldest locomotives on UP's roster operating in the Pacific Northwest. The loco was built in May 1947, and remained in service until 1978. Some... (more)

BN SD9 no. 6101 idles near the office on the approach to the ore docks fed by Allouez Yard. The former GN docks were the world's largest and although GN had very little mileage in Wisconsin, it wa... (more)

BN 6118 stopped briefly at the Mora, MN depot and a crew member is about to climb back on board. The job was the Brook Park turn out of St. Cloud, MN and the crew had left their train in Brook Par... (more)

BN 6368 sits at Harrison St. diesel facilities on the BN in Minneapolis in July 1973. Roster lists claim this unit was built in Feb. 1974, but this shot was taken in July 1973. I've seen another p... (more)

BN 2017, former GN 2017 is an example of the first order of GN GP20s made in May 1960. They were set up to operate long hood front, and featured a bell over the front headlight. They also came wit... (more)

Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha makes a stop at Tomah, WI on its run from St. Paul to Chicago. Amtrak used the former MILW depot for its needs here.

Hiawatha power for the St. Paul-Chicago segment of the Hiawatha/North Coast Hiawatha service awaits its next assignment at Minneapolis Jct., home of BN's Harrison St. roundhouse and diesel service... (more)

Hiawatha power for the St. Paul-Chicago segment of the Hiawatha/North Coast Hiawatha service awaits its next assignment at Minneapolis Jct., home of BN's Harrison St. roundhouse and diesel service... (more)

Amtrak domed observation car Silver Horizon brings up the rear of the North Coast Hiawatha at the BN station on Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis on a wintry January morning in 1973. The former Californi... (more)

Led by CNW 6831, 2nd 245 gets out of Wood St. Yard and crosses over to another track to clear the path for a southbound transfer. A short trip up this line reaches the east-west mainline near the ... (more)

CNW 6831 and mates have attached to a string of trailers on flat cars that will soon leave Wood St. Yard, Chicago as 2nd-245, The Falcon on a 12 hour race over the 500 mile C&NW mainline to the UP... (more)

C&NW branded its 1970s-80s intermodal service as Falcon Service and created a logo featuring a predatory falcon bird and this sign which decorated the yard office at the Henry to Wood St. Yard, Ch... (more)