Algoma Central is noted for the great scenery along the route and the fall colors. Early in the morning train 1 with 1752,1750, is just getting started on its all day trip to Hearst. The train has... (more)

CP had for the longest time assigned yard goats 7099 and 8171 to Sault Ste. Marie. They spent most of there time working heavy loads of steel out of Algoma Steel and making transfer runs with long... (more)

The RGZ just arriving at Provo on its morning run eastbound. DRGW 5771,5762,5763 have came to a stop and will pick up a few passengers before proceeding over Soldier Summit.

Utah gators 403,402,401 have just put a UP caboose on a string of empty coal cars. The units will now run around the train and depart the south end of the yard at Martin and head for the mines.

VIA 6780 leads a short 5 car train eastbound. This train was west of North Bay on this hot, hazy May day in 1987.

Sitting near the roundhouse at N.Green Bay is C&NW 1493. It was a former MKT unit that was re-engined by EMD in 1958. C&NW picked it up in 1973 after MKT retired it and sold it to PNC. It was reti... (more)

Milw 131 leads Soo 756 and 120 cars as they approach River Junction. The former Milwaukee East-West main swings east here into Wisconsin while a branch line works South along the Mississippi River... (more)

Spotless Milwaukee SD40-2's 197,159 are on the point of Soo train 910 as they switch a few pulpwood gons at Trout Lake, The Soo had just bought the Milwaukee Road a couple of months before this ph... (more)

The only FP45 that WC bought managed to run around in a few different looks before it was finally given a full repaint. It first operated in full Santa Fe paint and number, then it was ran in this... (more)

On the far western edge of the C&NW were a bunch of GP35's assigned to Chadron, Neb. Here four of them 863,848,847,852 pull hard to get up out of a sag near Whitewood. Most freight on this line co... (more)

When the WC bought Ex VIA FP9's for passenger service on the former ACR four F9B units were also puchased. From my understanding the B's were for spare parts. Two of the B's were stripped of parts... (more)

VIA train 185 is the tri-weekly Sudbury-White River service.Here it has stopped at the Cartier Station to pick up a few passengers before heading west into the wilderness of Northern Ontario. This... (more)

CNW ten-wheeler 1385 roamed the system for a number of years. Like any later day steam, it tended to draw big crowds wherever it went. Here I caught it during a quiet moment mingling with the Alco... (more)

Another fantastic consist, only to be found on the WC at this late date leads train GBSO west of Trout Lake. The WC's only FP45, 6652 is followed by AC 1750, WC 3006,6651,3007.

The Bozeman pass pusher set leans hard on the rear of a westbound freight as they slug it out with the grades of Bozeman Pass. MRL 391,7549,216,680,7545 are really roaring as they shake the ground... (more)