Red Barn No. 9020 waits for a new crew before departing westward from North Bend, BC; CP Rail's crew change in the Fraser Canyon. The train will soon head to Coquitlam Yard on the outskirts of Van... (more)

With the highway flagged and the gates lowered, CN 2835 creeps across old Hwy 10 keeping the speed under 10 mph. Point Brewing is local favorite brewed in neighboring Stevens Point, location of th... (more)

A Portland bound Z train gets under way out of Spokane, WA just south of Sunset Junction on the old NP mainline. The train is "detouring" on the NP rather than the usual SP&S route out of town due... (more)

CN 2501 rolls through slide sheds in the White Canyon/Rainbow Canyon area along the Thompson River near Skihist Provincial Park east of Lytton, BC. This amazing area offers unique rock formations ... (more)

CO 7504 lead a BO GP9 and Chessie GP40-2 on an eastbound freight east out of Ravenna, Ohio on a dreary snowless winter day in 1981.

This long hood view of a trio of CN SD40s at Boston Bar show off the Canadian road unit style rear headlight treatment. Note no class lights or number boards as well. This particular trio is dynam... (more)

About as rare as anything EMD could be, especially in 1992, former BN (CBQ) and Southern SD24s and an SD35 glide a freight from Green Bay into Fond Du Lac for switching prior to delivering the tra... (more)

Former Wisconsin & Calumet F7A no. 901 sits at Escanaba & Lake Superior's shops at Escanaba, MI. The unit was built for Rio Grande in July 1949, no. 564D. It has been owned by American Crystal Sug... (more)

CN "mudhens" 5090 & 5198 exit the CN mainline with a westbound freight and enter CP's Mission-Huntingdon branch to head across the Fraser River and access the CP main into Vancouver. Thi... (more)

The sun is trying to break through the marine clouds on a cool spring morning at Boston Bar, BC back when life was normal. CN owned this side of the Fraser, and trains ran both directions. SD40s a... (more)

Five years into the BN merger, Delta Yard at Everett, WA still showed hints of the past. A fairly new BN SW1500 is joined by older GN and NP EMD switchers, and some repainted Geeps. Great Northern... (more)

The day gets started at Ashcroft, BC for CP's local crew. They will do some switching here in the yard before heading east to switch industries east of town. No more are the days of SD40-2s in act... (more)

The former Milwaukee Road freight house at Winona, MN is viewed from the passenger station platform, framed on the left by a MILW baggage car assigned to maintenance of way service. In 2020 the pa... (more)

EL Alco C425 no. 2456 is in the company of an Amtrak E unit at Burlington Northern's Interbay roundhouse in Seattle, WA. The Alco was one of several sold by Conrail to British Columbia Railway aft... (more)

MILW 164 rolls a dead freight east on Pacific Coast Ry. (BN) trackage along the Cedar River between Renton and Maple Valley, WA as it heads its dead freight toward the climb up Snoqualmie Pass.