A lo-boy semi bottomed out on a crossing west of Gold Bar, got stuck and got hit, resulting in a derailment. Here BN GP30 no. 2226 assists the wrecking crew on the work train assigned to undo the ... (more)

The days are numbered for Duluth's Bridge Yard, originally owned by Northern Pacific, as Interstate 35 is under construction and will ultimately cover most of the property. However, that is not st... (more)

Following the Empire Builder, the North Coast Hiawatha rolls into North La Crosse for its station stop. As with the Empire Builder, which came through earlier, this train will receive a windshield... (more)

Former SP&S RS-3 No. BN 4068 idles at Astoria next to the depot. This is one of the western most points on the BN, now abandoned. The city of Astoria continues to use some of this trackage for a ... (more)

Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha pops out of a tunnel just west of the top of Homstake Pass, providing passengers with a stunning daytime view of the Montana Rockies on its daytime run across western... (more)

The Cle Elum local, a turn originating in Yakima, WA and serving lines west through Ellensburg to Cle Elum and beyond, made a run up to a lumber mill at Ronald, doing some street running through R... (more)

One damp evening in February 1975 a colorful group of F units gathered at the turntable at BN's Seattle Interbay roundhouse. Former GN F45s, BN 6006 and 6000 mate up, flanked by Amtrak SDP40F (ear... (more)

Milwaukee Road Baldwin 562 cools off in minus 22 degree weather and ice fog at Pigs Eye. This AS-616 began life in April 1951 as one of two AS-616B B units (No. 2100-B). It was rebuilt with a cab ... (more)

Train 17, the Rio Grande Zephyr completes another trip between Denver and Salt Lake City near Provo, UT on a beautiful early evening. Certainly by 1979 this was the nation's last best passenger tr... (more)

CP train 2, The Canadian, gives dome passengers an incredible view as it nears the top of Kicking Horse Pass and approaches the Alberta border. Next stop, Lake Louise.

EMD 462 and its traveling locomotive test set were in Auburn, WA in fall 1977 doing test work on their SD45-X on Stampede Pass. The pass was a favorite location for EMD to test mountain grades on ... (more)

SOO 733 leads a GP30, GP9 and F7B out of Irvine Yard at Chippewa Falls, WI on a snowless December day in 1970. The train is headed west toward Shoreham Yard in Minneapolis, MN. The small yard is n... (more)

SP SD9 4326 heads up a power set that includes a couple SW1500s, another SD9 and two GP9s while on the next track an eastbound freight led by a vintage EMD approaches the west end Roseville 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)

CP S-2 No. 7082 and a slug trundle along trackage near elevators at Thunder Bay, ON while the Canadian departs the station in August 1976. Note the elevators receiving 40 ft. grain boxes at this t... (more)