Westbound Proviso to North Platte freight train begins the descend into the Iowa River Valley east of Belle Plaine. The train is seen here passing thru the small town of Luzerne in central Iowa. T... (more)

2 new CNW SD60's, led by 8033, bring an empty coal train thru Omaha, NE in May of 1987. There were 4 brand new SD60's on the point when the train pulled into Council Bluffs, but 2 were removed bef... (more)

A CNW ore train, led by SD40-2 6916, crosses under Hwy 553 north of Swanzy, MI in June of 1988. You could see B52's take off and land from AFK Sawyer AFB at this time. The B52's have been replaced... (more)

Train MELNP-31 is about to cross the Mississippi Missouri divide at Arcadia Iowa on 12-31-14.The Chicago and Northwestern 8646 is leading today's train. The 8646 is one of two units still painted ... (more)

CNW 4105 brings a transfer run thru St. Paul, MN in August of 1983.

The little engine that could, or old meets new. CNW GP7 4287 leads a UP C40-8 thru Oak Creek, WI in March of 1992. Notable in this unusual consist are the auto frames coming from A.O. Smith.

CNW 6711 sits under the sanding tower in Escanaba, MI in August of 1984. The old concrete coaling tower looms in the background.

A westbound Chicago and North Western grain train crosses famous Kate Shelley High Bridge west of Boone, Iowa, on April 15, 1995. The 2,685-foot long bridge was built in 1899-1901, and was replace... (more)

CNW 972 leads a westbound train 483 through farm and forest land west of Elk Mound, WI on its way to East Minneapolis from Altoona. The train was a regularly scheduled Chicago-Twin Cities hotshot ... (more)

A westbound from the Powerton Plant near Pekin, IL, to Rochelle Mine Wyoming rolls thru the small town of Norway, about 10 miles west of Cedar Rapids. These Dash 8's were some of my favorite unit... (more)

A Chicago and North Western coal train rumbles west at Pewaukee, Wisconsin in a January 22, 1995 snowstorm. This train is on the Soo Line (former Milwaukee Road) main line and the heavy train stal... (more)

A trio of CNW SD18's, led by 6637, bring a transfer run thru the Twin Cities in October of 1991. These were some of my favorite locos on the CNW.

C&NW 1689, C&NW 6847, C&NW 8646, and C&NW 8701 all sit under a crescent moon at the Illinois Railway Museum.

CNW 7015 leads an eastbound freight across Packwaukee Lake in February of 1990. The bridge was designed to turn, but I doubt that it ever did. The local bar used to put an old car out on the lake ... (more)

Into the summer sundown comes CNW 8616 with North Platte to Denver symbol ANPDV-12 on a warm July evening. Barely visible on the right are the rails of the Julesburg Sub that diverged here and joi... (more)