BN 1792 rolls an eastbound Mansfield local past empty grain box cars as it begins its climb through the Palisades and up to the Mansfield plateau. This train typically ran once weekly handling gra... (more)

Lake Superior & Ishpeming U25C no. 2501 sits on display under their ore dock at Presque Isle, near Marquette, MI, while CEFX 1004 and mate handle dock duties. At present, all ore is mined at the T... (more)

An MKT freight prepares to head south out of Kansas City with an auto rack and intermodal traffic on a warm June day in June 1986. this was my only image of the John Deere green/yellow scheme on K... (more)

MILW 69C, a freight F7A with a passenger pilot endures foul spring weather at St. Paul while waiting its next assignment. This unit built in July 1950 and retired in May 1978 and scrapped. This un... (more)

BN 9790 pokes its nose out of the diesel shop at Auburn, WA, a former Northern Pacific facility located between Seattle and Tacoma. A close look shows that this former BN passenger F7 still wears ... (more)

Little snow, but icy conditions greet ten year old PC 2653, a U25B built in December 1965, and a pair of Southern Pacific SD40s at Penn Central's 56th St. Yard in Chicago, IL. In a few months 2653... (more)

Four SD40-2s and a GP9 pull a freight out of Pigs Eye Yard heading west at Dayton's Buff in St. Paul, MN. The missing logos indicates it nearing the end of Milwaukee's transcontinental era as the ... (more)

A hint of Big Sky Blue betrays the GN heritage of BN GP9 1792 leading its Mansfield branch local upgrade out of the Columbia River Valley at Palisades with 40 empty 40 ft. grain boxcars in tow. Th... (more)

CP 8835 leads the Sumas Turn east on the CP mainline near Mission City, BC where it will turn south and head for the US border and interchange with BN. This Geep-F-Geep consist was common in 1976.

A chilly CNW switch crew moves a TOFC load that just arrived in town to the piggyback ramp. Altoona handled a fair amount of piggyback traffic in the early 1970s, using a circus style facility req... (more)

Former CP Skyline 510 lets off steam in the evening air at a station stop in Boston Bar, BC. The eastbound Super Continental has arrived in blizzard conditions from Vancouver and after a brief sto... (more)

MILW 156, the Milwaukee's Bicentennial SD40-2 reflects on its celebrity status and the future of the West Coast Extension at the Tacoma shops in August 1978. By the following year it would be repa... (more)

Switching power originating from three builders gather at C&NW's Cedar Lake Yard at Minneapolis. On the left an EMD re-engined Baldwin switcher is joined by CNW 62-A & B, a former CGW set, built b... (more)

Amtrak's Empire Builder slows to a stop at Winona, MN after making a quick run up from La Crosse, WI on Milwaukee Road's route of the Hiawathas. This train was typical of the look that lingered th... (more)

BN 6102, former GN SD9 575 built in February 1954 takes a rest at Belknap St. Yard roundhouse in Superior, WI while mate BN 6110, now in green gets a turn on the turntable. SD7s & SD9s were the ba... (more)