A quartet of C&NW locomotives head down the main at the Illinois Railway Museum during the annual diesel days celebration. RSD-5 #1689 and SD40-2 #6847 are owned by the IRM while C44-9W's #8701 an... (more)

Tornado Warning! Tornado sirens are wailing as C&NW 6647 prepares to switch the yard in Winona in July of 1987. Although it looks like dusk, it's actually about 6:00 in the evening, telling you ho... (more)

Changing of the guard. A gloomy day is made even gloomier by the presence of new signals at St. Francis, WI. in December of 1986. Soon the semaphores would be no more. This is not the first change... (more)

It was amazing what you could still find in RR yards in the 1980's, either stashed away or in MOW service. A fine example is the ex CMO fishbelly boxcar, still wearing it's two-tone yellow and gre... (more)

CNW 1385 has a short, good looking train in tow as it rolls thru the countryside near Eden, WI in the Summer of 1985.

Trust your light meter! C&NW 5537 emerges from the fog on an extremely dreary day in October of 1984. Unlike today's digital images, you couldn't take a shot without the train to check your exposu... (more)

A pair of re-manufactured Baldwins rest behind the Oelwein diesel shop in July 1979. The locomotive classification does not account for the 2 axle trucks shown under the unit at this time. When fi... (more)

Crossing the Sheboygan River in Sheboygan Falls, C&NW 4287 crawls thru town at walking speed. Once part of a thru line to Fond Du Lac, it was systematically cut back to Kohler, only to be partiall... (more)

C&NW 6703 brings a loaded ore train into the receiving yard in Escanaba. These units really looked good in ore service.

Upon stepping off the train at Union Station on my first trip to Chicago, Bill Rosenberg and I trekked up to the CNW terminal to catch the afternoon rush. I knew steam was still in service there.

No one wants to see rails be abandoned, especially when the become a tripping hazard! A tunnel of grass has formed, higher than the rail itself, on this out-of-service portion of track that used t... (more)

Brand new SD69 #8046 leads a coal train thru St. Francis, WI on the freight beltline thru Butler. I grew up next to the building on the far right and my Grandfather (born 1895), remembers them bui... (more)

Not what it seems! The CNW repowered a couple of GP's with Cat engines in the early '80's and called them HE15's. The radiator fans and grills were dead giveaways to their non-EMD power. Not a suc... (more)

Remember when Burro cranes were commonplace on the railroads? A burro crane and transfer caboose await their next job in Saint Francis, WI.

CNW 6801, their first SD40-2 is on the point of an eastbound freight waiting for a new crew at Altoona, WI. The next crew will run the train southeast to Adams, WI where another crew will handle i... (more)