Soo Line GP35 729 handles switching at Irvine Yard, Chippewa Falls, Wis. The sunny morning will soon change to fall rain. Irvine handled crew changes and switching for local traffic for the branch... (more)

Amtrak's California Zephyr makes a chilly run past the Berwyn, Illinois commuter station on its last lap into Chicago Union Station. The consist of this train has little resemblance to the beauty ... (more)

DMIR 166, a Phase IV SD9, and the last high nose SD9 to operate on the Missabe joins with SD18 No. 181 to compare notes at Proctor, Minn. in July 1976. Note the subtle difference between the units... (more)

DMIR Phase IV SD9 no. 166 cools it heels outside of the Missabe diesel shop at Proctor, MN on a decent summer day. It looks like it's seen better days, but this survivor still has many years of se... (more)

A good number of BN's business car fleet was housed at the BN station in Minneapolis between uses back in 1973. Office car Red River poses at the end of a platform on a rainy day in March 1973, fe... (more)

A pair of SDP40Fs in the later styling head up the Coast Starlight as it prepares for departure from Seattle's King St. Station. The units are blocking the southbound main track, thus a BN transfe... (more)

MILW 421 and mate are delegated to watching the daisies at Bensenville, IL. Friend Rick Long takes note of the rare pair parked outside the MILW roundhouse.

RI GP40 no. 4714 mates up with a U25B on a moist March day in 1973. The units are at the Rock Island locomotive facility at Inver Grove, south of St. Paul, MN. Rock Island operated a strategic mai... (more)

CNW 923, a former Chicago Great Western SD40 rumbles east along the station platform in Eau Claire, WI with what is most likely train 472. At the time, trains 471 and 472 operated between East Min... (more)

A BC Rail freight winds its way north between Pemberton and Lillouett, BC rolling along the shoreline of Gates Lake. This train is mostly composed of empty forest products cars returning to northe... (more)

The wig wag is wagging as an eastbound ATSF intermodal freight rockets through Camden Missouri between Kansas City and Ft. Madison, IA. The SF Kodachrome scheme was at its peak in 1986, and would ... (more)

DMIR 210, an SD38-2 is about to leave the Proctor, MN roundhouse area with its consist and pick up a train to run down grade from Proctor to the ore docks. No. 210 was part of the last order of ne... (more)

Eau Claire Tower was the heart of railroad operations through town from 1896 to 1991. This former Omaha Road (CNW) structure was actually originally built to a Milwaukee Road design. It protected ... (more)

UP SD45 3635 and three 4 axle EMDs roll their freight across the Pacific Coast (Milwaukee Road) tracks at Black River Jct. south of Seattle as the train heads toward Tacoma and on to Portland, OR.... (more)

A quintet of MLW six axle power basks in breaking clouds after a late spring shower in the company of a pair of GMD SD40-2s. The location is the engine facility area of CP Rail's Pt. Coquitlam Yar... (more)