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.

A pair of new C&NW SD50's head west out of Clinton, IA.