Oddly enough this Nekoosa Papers Alco looked like it had been recently painted and then shoved out of the shop onto a track that was dis-connected and the unit was off the track with at least one ... (more)

CNW was always on the look out for some good cheap second hand power during most of the 70's. 4374 was one of a group of twenty ex SLSF GP7's bought in July 1976 from Precision National Corp. A nu... (more)

CNW 6723,6716,6720 roll east near Macfarland on a sunny fall afternoon. The big Alcos had quite a few more years of ore service in their future and did not get laid up until Dec. of 1986.

CP 4505,6016,5748 thunder east past High Falls in the Onaping River with 72 cars on a bright May morning. 4505 will not be one of the big MLW's to get Canadian government mandated RSC equipment, ... (more)

UP 8047 is between coal train assignments at Bill.

An ex Katy EMD re-engined Baldwin in fresh paint along with a big FM and another Ex Katy on a slide from my collection. No photographer listed. The slide is labeled as being at Butler. I'm not sur... (more)

Not long after being transferred from Huron S.D. C425's 403,404 work the Number 6 yard at Escanaba. The movement of the 4 axle Alcos east allowed C&NW to retire the remaining Baldwin-EMD hybrids a... (more)

With an added UP "Fast Forty" Amtrak train 5 the San Francisco Zephyr screams past a UP freight that is having power problems at Rock Springs. It had been a very cloudy, wind swept stormy day alon... (more)

A mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain had been falling all day, but the WC was still up to the challenge with this only on the WC fantastic lash up. 2401,6639,1752 and 3021 have the 75 cars of tr... (more)

CNW 4242,4255 are westbound passing Little Lake with a short train of general freight. Most of these cars will be interchanged to the LS&I at Eagle Mills or Partridge Jct. These units were on borr... (more)

BN 5676,6559,SLSF 713 have been cut off their train so a switch job in the background could do a little work on it's head end. In the meantime the crew had moved the power over to an area near the... (more)

CNW 6710,6724,6707 east with ore loads at Brampton.

Five BN SD40-2's howl downhill into Livingston with a train of TOFC/COFC on a clear June morning in 1987. This was Ex NP trackage.

The ten ex NYC/PC/CR that CNW bought in late 1979 worked for a year or so in road service out of Huron but were transferred along with the last of the Huron Alco's to Green Bay in early 1981. They... (more)

CP 6576,6594 have 29 cars as they depart the CPR yard heading to the ACR yard with a transfer. The pair of Alcos on the switch job was not a normal situation. Normal power for this job was either ... (more)