Slave master SD40-2, MILW 22, replete with icicle breakers leads scheduled freight 202 east along Hyak siding, just east of Snoqualmie Pass tunnel and summit. The train is en route from Tacoma, WA... (more)

A herd of zebras was spotted out on the prairies of Manitoba in June 1986 as CN inadvertently lined up a nice sampling of GMD power at Symington Yard on Winnipeg's east side. The prize was F7A 916... (more)

MILW 195 leads train 202 around the curve as it approaches the west end of the Columbia River bridge and Beverly, WA. The next crew change is Othello, is 38 miles further east. Othello was the wes... (more)

BNSF 6209 heads a westbound coal train across Union Pacific's Joso bridge over the Snake River near Lyons Ferry, WA en route to a power plant on UP at Boardman, OR. This has been a regular movemen... (more)

CP 9545 made a surprise appearance at Cisco, running westbound on CP while a westbound CN train crossed overhead. The CP train was deemed hot enough that CP ran it against the flow of normal joint... (more)

One of North America's most beautiful trains, The Canadian in CP Rail colors starts its trip out of Vancouver, BC with Riding Mountain Park bringing up the markers. The CP station is on Vancouver'... (more)

Bankrupt Milwaukee Road could not find funds to keep the Pacific extension alive, but still managed to put fresh paint and wash jobs on power in the core system as shown here at St. Paul. GP40 loo... (more)

A Santa Fe transfer arrives in the UP/RI yards in Kansas City, KS powered by Alco Alligator no. 9818 and a former RSD 4/5 slug. Meantime UP GP9 no. 237 handles switching chores. Not a car with gra... (more)

Times are tough in fall 1982, and Milwaukee Road was storing some of their locomotives. Here we have 7 GP20Ms parked at Pigs Eye Yard not far from the roundhouse area. These Geeps were rebuilt fro... (more)

BN 640 heads up an interesting mixture of former Great Northern and Northern Pacific F units at the Belknap St. roundhouse in Superior, WI, September 1970, about six months after the BN merger. Th... (more)

NP 3617 and a restored wood caboose are on display next to Union Depot in Duluth for the benefit of the Northern Pacific Railway Historical Society convention. Attendees could enjoy this before cl... (more)

A helper set at Skykomish awaits the arrival of an eastbound freight led by SD45 6445. Soon the freight will pull to a stop and the helper set on this day will tie on to the rear in front of the d... (more)

UP's Directors' Special from Seattle heads towards Portland and points east at Castle Rock, Washington on BN's double track mainline. UP exercises trackage rights on this former NP route, which wa... (more)

Rotary snow plow no. X900207 and its permanently assigned F7B unit are in the company of NW2s nos. 665 and 666 at Milwaukee Road's Tacoma tideflats shops and yard 11 months prior to the end of the... (more)

Orphaned by the Milwaukee Road out in the Puget Sound Region when service was cut on March 15, 1980, SW1 no. 878 left Milwaukee's roster and was sold to Weyerhaeuser Co. This photo was taken 4 mon... (more)