Just at dusk CNW 8512,UP 9152 and GECX 3001 come pounding up Walker Hill with another load of Powder River Basin coal headed east. The lack of trees or anything else for that matter in Eastern Wyo... (more)

Three big C&NW C628's are easing down to the LS&I connection at Partridge Jct. The Alco era is almost over on the C&NW as the 4 axles are already retired as are a few of the 628's. By late Dec. th... (more)

Milw train 246 used to call at the Rapids right around sunset on the longest summer days. Here the head brakeman is about to bail off and make the cut and the Milw 365, 353 and Soo 4412 will leave... (more)

BN 1620 is switching the east end of N. La Crosse yard. Yard moves at this end were troublesome as they required crossing the Milwaukee Road east-west main. Above the unit you can see the roof of ... (more)

Pretending to be a Alco, by pouring out the smoke. CNW SD18's 6636,6647 work the Dumper Job at Wells. The two units were originally SD24's but were rebuilt to SD18 status by CNW.

Soo 4414,4427 load the Chief Wawatam on a nice early fall afternoon.

Ex Milw. GP20 957,963, Soo 717 smoke it up as they head east after stopping for the E&LS diamond in Pembine. The ex Milw. GP20 rebuilds were not common on trains into the Upper Peninsula. The Soo ... (more)

BN 6657 still in its Frisco colors at Fort Worth in May of 81. Photo was aquired in trade years ago and is part of my collection. No photographer information on slide.

The MEC bought a group of ex RI U25B's after the Rock went under. Not all of them were made operational as some were to far gone and became parts sources to get the majority of them up and running... (more)

SEMPTA 902 and 904 lead a passenger special south along US-31 near Oden. This train had worked north on the old NYC to Mackinaw City on a Friday. After arrival the passengers spent the weekend on ... (more)

Soo 6406 and fuel tender 4002 hustle #211 west along the Mississippi just south of Winona. Soo constructed a couple of these fuel tenders from Ex Milw. GP20 rebuilds that had been wreaked. They we... (more)

CNW 6713 at Adams still in its N&W blue paint. Photo has been part of my collection for years. No photographer listed on slide. My guess is it was shot by the late Joe Stauber.

This shot from my collection has no photographer or location listed on the slide. My guess is Denver or Pueblo just because of the date and the ATSF U-boats mixed in. Maybe it could be Lincoln, NE... (more)

Soo 800 at Stevens Point. The Soo had parked most if not all of the ten U-boats as the economy underwent a slow period in 1975. The units had become kind of beat up looking since delivery in 1968 ... (more)

Soo GP-9 2554 was damaged in a derailment at Denham, MN on Sept. 23, 1978 and was sent to Diesel Electric Services a re-builder in the Twin Cities and came back as something christened a GP-22. Pa... (more)