Des Plaines with LEASED DMIR motor

CNW 8651 leads a UP coal train through downtown Rochelle, IL. The former CNW depot is signed for its new owner, but aside from that, this train looks like a typical UP-CNW run through train. UP wo... (more)

CNW warrior holding on after 20 years.

A classic C&NW scene nearly 20 years after the UP takeover at 'NX' Interlocking in Rochelle. It shouldn't be too much longer until these signals fall victim to PTC replacements.

A trio of Chicago Haulers with CNW 8701 leading the ex-CNW 8656 and an original UP C44-9W under the overpass at Dement with a Global 2 to Global 3 transfer.

A Saturday afternoon "Scoot" accelerates out of Des Plaines, IL, heading northwest towards Harvard, IL at Deval tower on a humid stormy day. The former freight F7 looked a bit shop worn,... (more)

The MOW crews cleaned the switches, engine 6812 got train 415 into the "hole", and now CNW train 406, the CN-DWP connecting train from Duluth-Superior to Chicago headed up by CNW 6809, r... (more)

Eastbound grain train departing Marshalltown

A Chicago and North Western freight passes Saunders Tower south of Superior, Wisconsin, on October 20, 1985. Three green and yellow EMD SD40-2s power the train that is bound for Itasca Yard.

Modest fresh snow and bitter cold forced CNW maintenance crews to drive out from Altoona to Rodell siding to shovel and pick ice out of the spring switches so train 415 could go "in the hole&... (more)

CNW 4406 and 4401, GP15-1s, pair up on a transfer to/from the DWP connection in downtown Duluth on a beautiful summer day in 1977. By the mid-80s everything would change and this area would be par... (more)

A pair of Chicago & North Western C44-9Ws lead SP's IPSNC along Scofield Reservoir on August 17, 1996.

A trio of EMD SD40-2s pull Union Pacific's LUF51 local up a 1.14% grade approaching the 4812 ft. summit at Point of the Mountain on July 19, 1989. The LUF51's regular routing via trackage rights o... (more)

CNW 8701 roll's through Creston, IL as it makes it's way to G-3 in Rochelle, IL.

Train 415 eases up to the east end of Rodell siding east of Fall Creek on a crisp January afternoon. Fresh snow and cold temperatures required CNW maintenance of way crews to come out and shovel o... (more)