Northwestern Steel job on a workaday job

Northwestern Steel job pokes it's nose out at the plant under the watchful eye of the flagman.

A Mid-Continent triple header in the summer of '74 featured WCC 4-6-0 #1 up front and included the WOV #1 logger loco and CNW 1385 in the consist. Both WCC 1 and CNW 1385 are getting rebuilds, the... (more)

1385 crests the hill at a MCRY weekend event in the summer of 1974. Soon she'll return to the high iron with 21st century renovation.

A Milwaukee transfer is captured westward on the KCT nearing Union Station and eventually winding it's way across the bottoms to the Kansas side and western connections.

Designated E8Am by Santa Fe, this brace of power is fit to lead a Chief.

In the summer of 1967 we're at the Argentine servicing rack with restless diesels.

Only a month after it's demotion to a no-name train, Rock Island's train #7 gets ready to depart for Council Bluffs/Omaha. The photographer grabs a shot at the platforms of the depot in Davenport ... (more)

Mopac's Eagle looks like it's outbound to Pueblo with lots of head end traffic on KCT trackage. KC Municipal Stadium lights are seen in the distance, home of the A's and where the Beatles played b... (more)

Repowered with EMD V16-567 power, a westbound freight has manifest behind it as it slips by on the KC Terminal trackage outside of Union Station just a few blocks.

The Southern Belle eases out of the KC terminal a few blocks into it's journey to the sunbelt, passing the old Municipal Stadium home of the A's for that final summer in KC before heading to Oakla... (more)

This double-diesel was only two years into it's service life when John captured it at Council Bluffs in the summer of 1967. It's B-mate sits behind--Four motors, two bodies, one cab. For a closer ... (more)

The Milwaukee had a small facility at Council Bluffs with an assortment of power waiting for assignment when John dropped by.

The last remnant of Rocky Mountain/Corn Belt Rockets, a month after being demoted to nameless train #7, departs Council Bluffs for the Omaha side of the river. The announced loss of it's primary ... (more)

After riding train #7, the now unnamed ex Cornhusker/Corn Belt Rocket from the Quad Cities, the photographer walks west of the depot to catch the activity near 16th Ave. in the terminal trackage, ... (more)