With light snow falling, Santa prepares to board the Happy Holiday Railway. The Chicago and North Western 6847 (EMD SD40-2) is set up as a photo opportunity on the side.
CNW 7005 leads an empty seasonal ore train at Ingram, WI in November of 1990. They will meet a loaded train here on WC (ex-SOO) tracks, put the helper from the loaded train on the point, and conti... (more)
CNW 6812 leads a westbound freight towards Rodell, WI, location of a passing siding east of Fall Creek. It will head into the siding for a meet before finishing its trip into Altoona, about 10 mil... (more)
CNW R-1 no. 1385 provides a tender view at the Mid-Continent Railroad Museum at North Freedom, WI in August 1973. The engine was operable at this time.
Hoarfrost covers an abandoned CNW switch stand north of Clyman Junction, WI in February of 1990. It is on the line that used to run north to Fond Du Lac., WI.
C&NW AC4400CW 8803, SP AC4400CW 120 and UP AC6000CW 7006 leads a coal train through Parsons, Kansas.
A grab shot in Green Bay captured a vintage FM H-16-66 handling switching chores as it was about to cross a street at the south end of the yard at North Green Bay. The vintage Loewy designed unit ... (more)
C&NW C40-8 8575 became the last of it's kind and seemed far out of place leading CSX Q617 from Atlanta to Mobile. The train is seen passing through Union City, Georgia in September 2005. (Slide Sc... (more)
The CNW had 2 bridges over the KK river in Milwaukee, WI. Both were double tracked at one time and saw a lot of trains. Traffic had declined significantly on both bridges when I took this image of... (more)
Starting in late 1979, C&NW took delivery from EMD of 35 GP38-2s that Rock Island had ordered, then cancelled. Three are shown here in a typical application - heading up the former M&StL to Alber... (more)
Randy Knaub is getting the shot of another ubiquitous Chicago and North Western commuter train about to hit the MILW diamonds at Mayfair in 1976.
An empty coal train is seen on the Union Pacific at Fremont, NE. During this era, the Union Pacific in eastern Nebraska seemed more like a Chicago and North Western RR as most SPRB coal trains and... (more)
A C&NW train hauling another load of Wyoming dirt is climbing up the hill from Reno Junction, WY.
Train NPCSV with a colorful consist of standard EMD cabs is topping the hill at Arcadia. This town sits on the divide between the Mississippi and Missouri River watersheds.
CNW 1674 prepares to enter N. Fond du Lac yard in February of 1974. Fran Weiner image from my collection.
Running left-handed like a C&NW locomotive should, a Canal Street (Chgo.)-Oakland Z train is smoking out the Sidney Sub. At this time the railroad was handling about 75 daily trains, and this was ... (more)
CNW 934 and 932 idle away at Altoona, WI in March 1968, only a month or so after delivery to the railroad. The GE U30Cs numbered 930-936 and were a treat to see on the EMD dominated railroad, at l... (more)
CNW 1385, an R-1 4-6-0, was nicely restored and in operating condition at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum back in August 1973.
CNW's CK Tower in Winona, MN in July of 1987. This tower guarded the CNW/MILW (SOO) crossing and was taken out of service in 1989. It was torn down soon thereafter.
Chicago & North Western covered hopper No. 490403 has just been rebuilt at Union Pacific’s car shop in De Soto, Missouri, and awaits stripping of its old paint in the sandblasting bay of the pai... (more)
The cab end view of freshly painted CNW 1280 is seen at the Wisconsin Great Northern facilities at Trego, WI. The CNW victory striped Route of the 400 scheme had to be one of the better schemes of... (more)
Freshly painted CNW 1280 is seen at the Wisconsin Great Northern facilities at Trego, WI. My understanding is this was debuted as a surprise for the CNW Ry. Historical Society meeting held here in... (more)
CNW SD40 880 (and a MP15) have made a set-out just north of St. Francis tower and will head down the Old Line to pick up some empty hoppers at the Oak Creek power plant in December of 1985. This s... (more)
CNW SW1200 no. 1216 mates up with slug no. BU 8 to handle switching on a cool January afternoon at Cedar Lake Yard in Minneapolis. Slug BU 8 was rebuilt in October 1964 from SW1 no. 1209. CNW rebu... (more)
A Westbound drops down Archer Hill into Cheyenne.
CNW 411 leads the bilevel train west past the semaphores at Olson Rd.
CNW 6703 brings a loaded ore train thru Little Lake, MI as an empty ore train waits in the siding to depart for Empire Mine in May of 1986. Seeing 6 of the big Alco's at once was an impressive sig... (more)
A crewman is flagging Broadway Street in Sheboygan Falls, WI so CNW can 4287 can continue its' journey west on a gloomy December day in 1986. Much of this line was removed, including the iconic wi... (more)
Former Chicago Great Western NW2s 1025 and 1017 get ready for duty at Oelwein, IA. Oelwein was the hub of Chicago Great Western, and remained an important yard for CNW into the early 1980s. The di... (more)
CNW 6719 mixes with a UP U30C and other power on a gray snowy day at Proviso Yard located in Berkeley, IL, just east of suburban Elmhurst. Proviso was CNW's only hump yard, de-commissioned by UP t... (more)
