Four eastbound trains are lined up at Boston Bar waiting for crews to depart for North Kamloops, BC. A pair of new GE C44-9Ws featuring CN's unique windshields, similar to GMDs, sandwich SD75i 567... (more)

The scenic route of the North Coast Limited remains out of use, but not abandoned, as seen in this view where it passes under I-15 in Butte, MT. Perhaps when BNSF acquires MRL they will consider p... (more)

MILW 164 leads three more SD40-2s and two SD10s up the grade to Snoqualmie Pass as it heads a dead freight east at Mine Creek trestle. The trestle shows evidence of Milwaukee's engineering efforts... (more)

Some cars just sit around too much. This artwork decorates a large covered hopper car moving to a plastics plant in Chippewa Falls on Union Pacific. I'm no fan of graffiti art on modern railroads,... (more)

Crew change time at Scenic, WA viewed from the Hwy 2 overpass just west of the Cascade Tunnel. The eastbound freight has pulled up to the end of the siding as its crew has run out of time. A new c... (more)

A boat tour of the Duluth-Superior harbor includes a cruise past the former DM&IR Dock 6, now operated by Canadian National Railway. This is the end of the line for much of the iron ore handled fr... (more)

A quintet of EMD 567 V-16 diesel engines all fit nicely on a 50 ft. CNW flat car, pictured at the Oelwein, Iowa diesel shops, once the heart of the Chicago Great Western Railroad. During this peri... (more)

The Super Continental makes its station stop and crew change at Boston Bar, BC following a two day snow storm that closed Highway 1 and caused some delays in rail service. This train however was p... (more)

Two Penn Central Alco C636s head up a transfer run heading east on the Indiana Harbor Belt as it passes under the Rock Island mainline at Blue Island, IL. The 6333 was built in March 1968 and beca... (more)

A bloody nose for a bloody nose. Amtrak F7A No. 104 (formerly BN 9780; originally NP 6511A) went to early retirement after hitting a truck loaded with 1300 turkeys in northwestern Minnesota on Amt... (more)

Former GN F45, BN 6603 follows GN practice of running locos long hood front after the lead SD45 had an axle failure at Quincy, WA. Train 3, BN's hottest train was only delayed about 15 minutes whi... (more)

Extra 131 east rolls by a westbound extra at Beverly, WA on August 27, 1978. About a year and a half before Milwaukee's transcontinental demise, the railroad was fairly busy with about 6 trains a ... (more)

The head end crew of the Canadian has given the okay to a passing freight train on Kicking Horse Pass and will soon be back on board their train to continue into Lake Louise station and on to Banf... (more)

A quintet of CP Rail SD40-2 helpers return downgrade to Donald and their helper station after lifting a westbound grain train over Rogers Pass through the Connaught Tunnel. They are shown here on ... (more)

A Canadian Pacific coal train arrives at Boston Bar on CN trackage where it will stop for a crew change before proceeding to Roberts Bank, BC. The train is using the double track extension that CN... (more)