A Sumas turn from Coquitlam Yard as arrived at Mission City, BC and will soon head south to the border at Huntingdon/Sumas, WA where most business will interchange with BN. The train will then ret... (more)

One of the favorite faces in railroading, EMD's bulldog nosed E and F units is on display at Burlington Northern's Metra coach yard at Aurora, IL in June 1991. The Es, rebuilt by Morrison-Knudson ... (more)

The Canadian holds in the siding on Kicking Horse Pass near Summit Lake, waiting for a westbound freight to pass by on the main line.

DWP 3609 & 3603 show off two of five color schemes worn by DW&P RS-11s in their life on the railroad. The "zebra" scheme on no. 3609 would be the last CN scheme used. They would then see... (more)

CN train 105 heads west across the Swan Landing causeway and will meet train 416 at Swan Landing before continuing west to Jasper, AB for a crew change. The late afternoon scene featured total cal... (more)

In yet another throw back to Great Northern, a work train roll west toward Stevens Pass crossing the Wenatchee River one of three times at Dryden, WA. BN 8015 leads a long hood first elephant styl... (more)

A grab shot in Green Bay captured a vintage FM H-16-66 handling switching chores as it was about to cross a street at the south end of the yard at North Green Bay. The vintage Loewy designed unit ... (more)

Amtrak's Empire Builder no. 8 glides through Pewaukee, WI on CP trackage (X-MILW) with ample head end power and a string of express boxcars on rear. At this time Amtrak was attempting to enhance r... (more)

CP 8516, a steam generator equipped GP9 waits for its next assignment in CP's Vancouver roundhouse. At this time it could be expected to be part of a "Canadian" consist, which was still being serv... (more)

Santa Fe FM 557 handles switching of former Santa Fe power for Amtrak at Archer Avenue Yard south of downtown Chicago. Amtrak acquired a number of Santa Fe F unit relics to help them take over San... (more)

UP could put together more interesting combinations of power than most railroads in the 1960s and 70s. Here we have SD24B 411B mated up temporarily with an NW2 as it gets hostled around the engine... (more)

CN SD50F No. 5408 and mate wait for their next move at Chilliwack, BC on a snowy February 15, 1986. Over the next 24 hours blizzard conditions would prevail, Hwy 1 would be closed in the Fraser Ca... (more)

An eastbound intermodal/stack train rolls along the Bow River at CP's famous Morant's curve. Made famous by CP photographer Nicholas Morant, this location draws in many photographers from around t... (more)

A DWP transfer run heads southwest on BN trackage under the overpass that leads to the DMIR ore docks on Duluth's west end. The pair of GP38-2s are fairly recent arrivals to the property having st... (more)

CNW 4445 brings as west side job strings of boxcars east past Eau Claire Tower on CNW's mainline from the Twin Cities. By 1982 the crossovers between main tracks have been removed, as well as the ... (more)