CNW 6702 leads and empty ore train under the bridge to KI Sawyer Air Force Base in May of 1986. We just missed a shot with a B-52 landing in the background.

They say bacon makes everything better.... WRRS wig-wags guard a snowy crossing to the Patrick Cudahy plant, home of Sweet Applewood Bacon. These wig wags on CNW's Old Line were the last ones in t... (more)

A hospital train brings re-railed cars back to Butler Yard after a derailment. I'm surprised they didn't remove all the boxes from the Conrail van before they moved it.

Chicago & North Western engines pull Union Pacific's APLA5 stack train through Erda, Utah on Sept. 24, 1995. Promontory Point, Antelope Island, and the Great Salt Lake are in background on this be... (more)

CNW 8007 skirts the shores of Goose Lake with a loaded ore train in June of 1987. Replacing the Alco C628's, the SD60's were short lived in ore operations.

CNW 1041 sits at Altoona between assignments. The unit is a "Baldwin half-breed" VO-1000M, originally built in March 1945 and re-engined by EMD in April 1960 and given an SW hood. The un... (more)

CNW 8502 is dwarfed by grain elevators as it brings a coal train eastbound thru Arcadia, IL.

Train 483 behind SD45 901 has a good roll on it as the train heads west through Rusk, WI en route to Minneapolis, MN. The World War II era rails still posted a 60 mph speed limit in the early 70s,... (more)

CNW 972 splits the semaphores on a curve east of Knapp, WI as its train heads west from Altoona, WI to East Minneapolis, MN. This formerly double track mainline was single tracked with the ending ... (more)

Oelwein was a major locomotive over hall and rebuild center for CNW after the 1968 merger with Chicago Great Western. It was also a place where locos would end their career. Fortunately for CNW 44... (more)

Just a minor derailment northeast of C&NW's Butler yard.

CNW 972 leads a westbound freight across the Chippewa River bridge as it leaves Eau Claire, WI after switching and a crew change in Altoona. Its headed for East Minneapolis and connections with BN... (more)

A CNW "Scoot" commuter train rolls through Deval Tower which protects CNW and Soo Line's crossing on the northwest side of Chicago. This train is on the northwest line, coming into Des P... (more)

CNW 6615, an SD7M heads a trio of SD power at Rapid City, SD in October 1980. These units worked the Western Division of CNW, headquartered at Chadron, NE along with Geeps and Alco power (in South... (more)

Former Chicago Great Western caboose 10534 at Chicago, Illinois september 1985.