A C&NW freight featuring a block of wood chip loads behind the power, rolls east through Eau Claire just minutes away from arriving at Altoona Yard. this stretch of track, part of UP's mainline be... (more)
A C&NW freight arrives at their Itasca, Wisconsin yard on the east end of Superior, Wis. with empties returning to DWP/CN for interchange in Duluth, MN. CNW 6926 and 6925 lead a third SD40-2, once... (more)
CNW 411, Pan Am 1, and EMD 103 wait their turn to go out on the turntable for the Streamliners at Spencer Event.
Chicago & North Western GE C44-9W No. 8625 leads a westbound Union Pacific manifest freight approaching Tunnel 1 east of Plainview, Colorado, on May 2, 1998.
CNW 6704 approaches Butler Yard with train GBPRA in December of 1985. The big Alco's would occasionally depart from their usual iron ore duty in the UP of Michigan and venture to Milwaukee or Chic... (more)
Chicago & North Western EMD GP15-1 No. 4417 switches a train at Butler yard in Butler, Wisconsin, after the passing of a quick moving storm toward the end of a day in June 1984.
CNW 6834 leads a colorful consist thru Oak Creek, WI in November of 1991. The freshly painted unit is on the ex-passenger mainline, commonly known as the "Old Line". The herald on the no... (more)
A water tower, wig-wags, and bacon. What could be better as CNW 6861 brings a train past the Patrick Cudahy plant in Cudahy, WI in October of 1993.
CNW 6826 leads a freight westward through mist, haze, and fog at South Burns Harbor, on the former Michigan Central Porter Branch in 1984.
C&NW 411 sits quietly, staged for the next days operations at the Illinois Railway Museum.
A CNW E8 crosses Scott Street in Fond Du Lac, WI with what is probably train #153. Bob Ferge Kodachrome from my collection.
Thick exhaust hangs in the air as the C&NW 411 pulls forward during a Illinois Railway Museum night shoot.
CNW 821 is on Milwaukee Road tracks as it passes thru Sparta, WI at dusk in April of 1976. Bob Ferge Kodachrome from my collection.
CNW 936 and 917 arrive at the North Fond Du Lac, WI yard in May of 1978. The CNW only had 7 of the U-Boats, and most went to Mexico after only 10 years of service. Fran Wiener Kodachrome from my c... (more)
CNW 934 and 933 wait to depart CNW's Butler, WI yard in April of 1974. The CNW only had 7 of the units, and they only lasted 10 years on the CNW before going to Mexico. 934 was wrecked however and... (more)
CNW 5099, the last GP50 delivered to C&NW is in showroom condition brightening up an otherwise dreary day at Altoona, WI on an eastbound train. With a builder's date of September 1980, this could ... (more)
Empty coal buckets with an SD50 leading an SD60 are approaching Missouri Valley, IA on the single track in 1989.
I never tire of seeing SD45s, having grown up with these C&NW behemoths. These were probably my favorite as the flares really stuck out with no dynamic brakes. Later that would cause an earlier th... (more)
Things got a little weird at C&NW's Altoona roundhouse in 1973 and 74. First, leased, then purchased N&W C628s started getting some servicing here, then Altoona became a location to do maintenance... (more)
Clyman Junction was at the crossing of CNW's Chicago-Twin Cities mainline and the Fond Du Lac-Janesville mainline. We are looking north up the line to Fond Du Lac, which is now a trail. The tower ... (more)
The distinctly CNW nose bell shines with new paint above the Chicago & North Western logo on a restored F7A at the Illinois Railway Museum. Locomotives:CNW 411 F7A
Hoffman Ave. is a busy place in August 1991 with a pair of CNW freight transfers waiting to make their moves out to joint trackage with BN and SOO along Dayton Bluff in St. Paul. The power shows o... (more)
CNW 8826 departs Bill, WY with yet another coal train in June of 1998.
Two freshly-rebuilt and repainted Chicago & North Western covered hoppers (Nos. 490213 and 490878) sit just outside the Union Pacific’s De Soto Car Shop in Missouri on the afternoon of September... (more)
A worker in the Union Pacific car shop at De Soto, Missouri applies Union Pacific logos and “Building America” slogans to the side of Chicago & North Western covered hopper No. 490093 on Septe... (more)
Undecorated (almost) A Chicago & North Western covered hopper gets a fresh coat of gray in the paint shop at Union Pacific’s car shop in De Soto, Missouri, on September 28, 2011. Most... (more)
Chicago and North Western SD40-2 #6847 rests during Museum Showcase Weekend, 2017.
CNW Dash 9-44CW 8681 leads Union Pacific SD60Ms 6136 and 6318 and SD40-2 3343.
CNW "Baby" Trainmaster 1906 switches Powers, MI in August of 1974. The old depot is in the background while the new replacement is being built to the left of the 1906. Bob Ferge Kodachro... (more)
Train PRNPB is crossing the Boyer River bridge between Dunlap and Woodbine, IA.