I can assure you, #401 has seen better days, but has been sitting here for a number of years. The wind has taken care of the tarp that had been covering it up in recent months.

The C&NW 40th Street engine terminal had two huge coaling towers. In early 1956, C&NW M-3 0-6-0 2610 took coal at one of the towers. This picture was taken a month or so before May 22, 1956, the l... (more)

Switching their industrial section on the near southside of Milwaukee, UP's Marsh Job shuttles cars around the handful of industries that were left around this once bustling industrial district of... (more)

A North Platte, NE, to Proviso, IL, manifest train is about to cross the Mississippi River Bridge and from Iowa to Illinois. The train has just changed crews at Clinton and will now blast thru Ill... (more)

I had a hard time getting trio of CNW Dash 9's, but here the afternoon bird had 3 this day. The train is racing west as they are about to drop down Luzerne Hill, about 5 miles east of Belle Plain,... (more)

A potash train is slowing down to head in the siding at Manly. Manly is located 7 miles north of Mason City, IA. This potash train came off the CN at South Itasca, WI, and is heading more than lik... (more)

A Soo Line light power moves rolls past a stopped C&NW train just west of downtown St. Paul.

Different kinds of architecture; mobile & fixed

North of Pigs Eye Yard

Approaching Pigs Eye Yard

"Zito" yellow units bracketing a Geep in the 'conventional' color

CNW 8701 and UP 1995 on display at the 2010 IRM Diesel Days.

3 B23-7's worked most of the 2000-01 winter on these Jordan Spreaders clearing the mainlines and branches around Mason City, IA. Here the crew is heading back to Mason City as they are done cleari... (more)

An eastbound stack train drop thru the river valley east of Belle Plaine. This train will now climb the hill into Luzerne, about 30 miles west of Cedar Rapids, IA. CNW 8666 was built in April 1994... (more)

CNW SD60 and UP 40 blast thru the small town of Chelsea, in central Iowa. The train is 25 miles east of Marshalltown, IA. 8004 was repainted to UP 5972 in July 1996 and was retired in January 2002... (more)