RS-11s 3600 and 3609 finish switching a westbound freight at the DWP yard on the hillside in the west end of Duluth. Missabe's Proctor hill main is above this yard on the hillside. The white flag... (more)

A pair of B&O GP40s bask in the fall sun at Cumberland, Maryland in October 1982. Even though Chessie System was the order of the day, one could still spot pre-Chessie paint schemes with regularit... (more)

Amtrak's Pacific International heads north through Golden Gardens in Seattle en route to Vancouver, BC. This transition period featured steam generator cars to handle the steam heat still used by ... (more)

WC train 243 has just completed its run from Chicago to North Fond du Lac led by WC's sole FP45 no. 6652. WC breathed new life into this unit along with several F45s and a healthy group of former ... (more)

CNW Alco C628 6720 and mate arrive in Altoona with a train from Spooner, WI. The 6720 had been pruchased from Norfolk & Western earlier in the year along with 29 more C628s. Repainting began refle... (more)

DMIR SD9 No. 158 is serviced along with SD18s 177 and 190 during the night in the Proctor diesel shop at Proctor, MN. this shop was built in the 1950s to support maintenance of the then new SD9s. ... (more)

A CN manifest gets under way leaving Boston Bar behind a pair of SD40-2Ws and an SD40. Just out of the small yard the railroad crosses Anderson Creek on a curved trestle. North Bend, which is CP R... (more)

MILW 101A leads another FP7, E9B & E9A on the Morning Hiawatha as the train glides downgrade and crosses BN's main on the approach to the Mississippi River crossing into Hastings, MN. The train ha... (more)

A Mopac freight finishes its air test and is ready to depart Yard Center on Chicago's south side. At this time Yard Center was shared between MP and Louisville & Nashville. Power on this train inc... (more)

EMD siblings line up at Altoona. SD40-2 no. 6821 is from the second order of SD40-2s that CNW made and was received in February 1974, just as I went to work for C&NW. It survived the UP merger reb... (more)

Fred Tolan and his Washington-Oregon Shippers Assn. were very influential in the Pacific Northwest in controlling which railroad got traffic. One movement they controlled was inbound shipments of ... (more)

A track inspection speeder was parked on the main outside the icicle encumbered BN depot at Easton, WA on the former NP mainline over Stampede Pass. The speeder nine years after the BN merger reta... (more)

BN 4361, an Alco C636 leads a consist that includes an Alco C425, GP38-2 and GP35 over a causeway along the Columbia River and Lake Roland as the train heads east from Vancouver, WA to Wishram on ... (more)

MWLX 62, former Nicolet Badger Northern NW2, rests in the woods along seldom used CN trackage (former Soo) in northeastern Wisconsin. The loco apparently has been for sale for a number of years an... (more)

DWP was experiencing traffic growth in the ealry 1980s and needed more cabooses. One example was a former GN St. Cloud shops caboose, DWP 53102, acquired from BN, shown at West Duluth, MN.