The CNW always kind of reminded me of a PRR of the mid-west, not as far as profits went but in the terms of motive power. The CNW seemed to have tried nearly every unit that just about anyone prod... (more)

NS 1605, SR 3243, NS 9720, NS 1385 head east out of Mullens on one of the coal branches that seemed to litter the area. I had always been interested in the area as my grandfather had been born in ... (more)

The sun had nearly set both literally and figuratively on the CNW Alco fleet when I shot this photo of the 6725 and 6720 muscling a cut of loads up to the dumper shed in the last light of a May ev... (more)

The C628 fleet on CNW pulled its last ore train around Christmas 1986. The 25 surviving units were then stored in Escanaba until 1990 as the CNW tried to sell the lines north of Green Bay like the... (more)

A friendly engineer assigned to the Antoine Turn decided to unleash his set of C628's just as I was about to click the shutter on this beautiful November morning. The units had been idling for a f... (more)

Still looking pretty good in it's Ex NP paint(except for a mismatched battery box door) BN 5667 suns itself at Daytons Bluff. The U25/28C's spent a good amount of their time in coal service after ... (more)

N&W 8505 and NS 6557 smoke it up and rattle a few windows as they accelerate away from a meet at McDonough. The N&W C36-7 was a nice sight leading a train by this date as the NS paint had nearly c... (more)

BN 6443 with some GN green and orange already bleeding through it's fairly recent coat of "big sky blue" paint rests along with a GN F and a couple of CB&Q U-boats at Hillyard. Hillyard was soon d... (more)

Two of the four trouble plagued CNW RS-27's rest on the turntable at Council Bluffs. The CNW had many problems with these units and they only lasted from March 1962 until February 10, 1966 on the ... (more)

BN 5747 and C&S 903 eastbound at Grand Crossing with 54 cars of TOFC/COFC at 14:30 on Sept. 22, 1979. The train is swinging around the west side of North La Crosse yard on what probably was the ol... (more)

CNW painted a few units in the C628 fleet during the winter of 1981/82. Some of them were definitely in need of new paint and it made for some good photos until the rigors of ore service and the h... (more)

Bought by the CNW only a few days earlier, a pair of Ex N&W C628's, as yet not re-lettered or renumbered lead a train at Rice Lake. Power on this train consisted of N&W 1119, 1106 and CNW 936, one... (more)

Wyeville was aptly named with a crossing of CNW lines and a connecting wye in in nearly every direction. CNW 913 leads CR 6430 and 135 cars around the bend from the Adams line onto the Twin Cities... (more)

After a washout north of Lake Superior the CP detoured a number of trains that had been in the area of Sudbury over the Sault Ste. Marie branch and then WC from Sault Ste. Marie-Neenah-Minneapolis... (more)

WC 6527, 6530, 1232, 589 wheel west around a sharp curve into low evening light with train 34. Train 34 normally departed Sault Ste. Marie in the 4-5PM time slot and in the summer could be followe... (more)