Escanaba & Lake Superior SD9s nos. 1224 and 1220 rust away nose to nose at the shop facilities near the waterfront in Escanaba, MI. The units began life in December 1956 as RSMX 1220 and 1224, and... (more)

MILW cow and calf set 695A and B get some support form F7B 69B at the hump at Pigs Eye Yard, St. Paul, MN back in March 1973. It would appear that tonnage was increased to the point where the TR4A... (more)

A privately owned collection of Milwaukee Road bay window cabooses look more like a caboose cemetery than a display in Prairie Du Chien. The group includes both flat side and horizontal ribbed exa... (more)

BN 1796 still in Great Northern's simplified scheme is partnered with F9B 805 and BN 1790, a repainted former GN Geep, at Wenatchee, WA, June 8, 1974. This was my first visit to Wenatchee, done wh... (more)

CNW 1237, a 1945 Baldwin VO-660 rebuilt by EMD in 1958 and classified as a VO-660M, tends to switching chores in Altoona, Wis. on a cool January afternoon. The unit has been repainted in the early... (more)

EL 2572 makes a transfer move at Ashland Avenue yard on Chicago's south side. Somebody must have been proud of this unit as it is spotless!

BN 4243 heads west from Wishram, Washington with a local to Vancouver. The train is heading across a fill at Horse Thief Lake (state park) just across the border from The Dalles, Oregon. This loco... (more)

This was a special day for ATSF 104 as it was assigned to an employee appreciation passenger special making runs east from Joliet. Here it has arrived at Union Station, temporarily blocking Metra ... (more)

MP15DCs nos. 1303 and 1309 idle between assignments in Janesville, WI a year after Union Pacific acquired the railroad. 1303 shows CNW's final color scheme in a version featuring Operation Life Sa... (more)

BNSF 7592 climbs Stevens Pass entering what appears to be a tunnel of trees at MP 1722 just west of Scenic, WA and the Cascade Tunnel. This train is an empty oil train with 2 units of the point an... (more)

No. 24 leads a Milwaukee Road transcontinental freight west as it descends toward Kittitas, WA after climbing Boyleston Hill. Note the helpers cut into the train. Milwaukee used radio controlled m... (more)

Republic Steel Corp. (River Terminal Ry.) SW7 No. 98 switches molten steel in the Cleveland, Ohio steel mill. This mill along the Cuyahoga River, which was known for burning in this era, was merge... (more)

MILW 651, an SW1200 built in November 1954 cools off outside the Pigs Eye Yard next to the roundhouse. The unit will serve MILW for 12 more years, being retired in February 1985. Next to 651, Bald... (more)

BN 5519 leads a mix of vintage EMDs on a northbound freight at Reservation Tower in Tacoma, WA on a somewhat dreary February day in 1979. Taken from the embankment of the Milwaukee Road overpass, ... (more)

A rebuilt Alaska Railroad GP7, featuring a spartan cab and ARR trucks was caught outside the BN roundhouse at Interbay in Seattle, WA. The unit spent some time in the BN shops here.