F45s BN 6643 and 6638 lead GP39-2 2710 on the head end of an eastbound manifest freight as it accelerates away from the Rock Island bridge it had just crossed over the Columbia River. The train is... (more)

The Silver Pilot leads its train from the Illinois Railroad Museum, Union, IL, into West Chicago via C&NW trackage. The train will interchange with BN and make its way to Ft. Worth, TX to help BN ... (more)

C&S 832 suns itself in Denver, CO showing off the distinctions between a Phase 4 SD9 and earlier versions. The Phase 3&4 models had two 48 inch fans over the radiator, vs 4 36 in. fans on Phases 1... (more)

A quartet of SD40-2s have a manifest well in hand as it rolls west around the big bend in the Yellowstone River about 8-10 miles east of Livingston, MT on a sunny July 1, 1986. By October 1987 thi... (more)

CNW was power hungry in 1973, not having bought a new locomotive since 1969. They leased 30 N&W Alco C628s and 6 C630s in the winter of 1973. Here No. 972 has a nice mix of SD45s and Alcos, along ... (more)

A Union Pacific Directors' Special glides along Puget Sound on a partly cloudy spring morning at Steilacoom, WA. UP has trackage rights here on BN's former NP mainline between Tacoma and Portland.... (more)

Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha has just left the former GN station in Minneapolis for its trip to Chicago. This first 100 plus miles are along the Mississippi River, starting here with a crossing o... (more)

A pair of X-GN F45s mate up with a former CB&Q SD45 at Cicero, IL on a dreary March day in 1974. Newer BN units are in the background along with an older GE unit.

BNSF 9206 leads an eastbound empty coal train along the Palisades of the Columbia River just east of the Rock Island dam in the last light of the day. The train is about to start its 1% grade 16 m... (more)

Forty years ago BN 6928 climbs Stevens Pass with an eastbound intermodal train at the apex of the curve on Foss River bridge. The train begins the 2.2% grade climb from Skykomish by following the ... (more)

CNW 1050 and mate 1064 idle between assignments at CNW's Green Bay roundhouse in August 1969. By this time most FMs were assigned out of Green Bay normally working CNW lines between Milwaukee and ... (more)

BN 1977 and caboose BN 12353 serve as local power at Rochelle on a snowless December 28, 1995. BN 1977 began life in June 1956 as Spokane, Portland & Seattle 152. The BNSF merger was 3 months old ... (more)

GN 1196 lettered City of Spokane brings up the rear markers on Amtrak's Empire Builder as it leaves Seattle on a sunny spring evening.

In a model railroad scene, CN 5314 leads two older SD40s repainted in the zebra scheme, crossing a short deck girder bridge over a water fall of a mountain brook spilling into a muddy Fraser River... (more)

Train no. 2, the Canadian, is about to depart Vancouver during the "blue light" hour powered by a pair of elephant style Geeps. During this period one could witness almost any combinatio... (more)