On April 5, 1996, scrappers working near the locomotive facility at Wisconsin Central’s Shops Yard at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, are reducing older surplus locomotives to pieces of scrap and ... (more)
Fred Tolan and his Washington-Oregon Shippers Assn. were very influential in the Pacific Northwest in controlling which railroad got traffic. One movement they controlled was inbound shipments of ... (more)
The day's last light reflects off Samish Bay as BN 6459 glides across the Colony Creek trestle at Blanchard, WA, south of Bellingham along Chuckanut Drive. The train is headed from Vancouver, BC t... (more)
UP 3607, an SD45 rumble across the swing bridge just west of the UP Tacoma yard. Once across it will immediately swing north onto the BN mainline which it shares for the run to Portland, OR. The t... (more)
A nice mix of EMD power led by BN SD45 no. 6512 climbs the one percent grade of the Chumstick cutoff west of Leavenworth, heading from Wenatchee to Seattle via the Cascade Tunnel under Stevens Pas... (more)