After the FRV was bought by WC quite a few Ex FRV units continued to work CNW jobs PRANA/ANPRA between Quinnesec and Green Bay. This was to pay back HP hours to CNW for WC using big CNW power sout... (more)

When the WC first started operations only two trains a day made the Gladstone-Sault Ste. Marie trip and they were often fairly short. Service started with trains 11 and 12 in a hold over from the ... (more)

It often seemed if you took a girlfriend along with you on trips to the LS&I you could get some terrific smoke shows...maybe those guys had been riding around in the woods a little to long with no... (more)

The CP's GP35's never seemed to be the most popular units on the roster. Outnumbered by the MLW RS-18 and C424 fleets and lost in a sea of SD40's and SD40-2's they were rarely spotted on the mainl... (more)

Train 7 the Empire Builder with 11 cars makes its late evening appearance at Grand Crossing tower.

CN SD40 rebuild 6010 leads WC 3024 and forest products laden train 543 westbound into the late evening sun.

Lite engine move on the roll eastbound at Fort Madison when the Santa Fe still looked like it should.

CP 5515 and 4709 on first 923 at East Zorra.

NP 6013D leads three other first generation units on ore loads at Minneapolis. This slide has been in my collection for year and was either bought or traded for. No photographer listed on slide.

C628 6701 in the company of a pair of Baldwin/EMD re-builds at Escanaba Roundhouse in the spring of 1977.

Fairly common early BN Inside Gateway power rests at Keddie. This is a slide from my collection that I either traded for or bought years ago. Photographers name is illegible.

CP 8403 was one of a small group of RS-2's assigned to service in Vermont and Maine in the early 80's. I was vacationing in Maine and Vermont during the spring of 1981 and the 8403 just worked the... (more)

Not long after the Soo bought the MN&S the pair of MN&S SD39's started to roam system wide. Equipped with Hancock air whistles and with an amber flasher above the front walkway the units presented... (more)

AC F's 1755 and 1756 work there way east with the 51 cars of GBSOA on a chilly March morning.

One of a handful of ex GN EMD SDP40's on the BN roster pulls eastbound at La Crosse with 8035 and TOFC traffic in this late evening 1980 shot.