BN 9859 (Passenger number), an SDP45, is seen in freight service at Minneapolis' Harrison St. roundhouse. With the creation of Amtrak, BN was quick to pull SDP40s & 45s off passenger trains and mo... (more)

An NS manifest freight crosses the Burnside bridge over the Cumberland River near Somerset, Ky. heading north to Danville, Ky. This is part of the former Southern Railway's "Rathole" running south... (more)

CN 6011 leads train 513, the Hinton-Jasper local turn, out of Parkgate tunnel and along the shore of the Athabasca River in Jasper National Park.

MILW 853 and caboose are parked at Rochelle, IL along the BN mainline, east of the CNW diamonds. Milwaukee Road shared track with BN from Rockford to Rochelle, and operated south of Rochelle on a ... (more)

A group of MLW/Alco switchers including S2 7094 rest between assignments in downtown Vancouver, BC in August 1978. The foreground track was used to turn the Canadian passenger train consist after ... (more)

While snooping around the C&NW North Green Bay roundhouse I came across this EMD cab sitting along side the building. I think it was from an SD40-2, number unknown. No idea how C&NW ended up with ... (more)

BN F3A no. 9732 was one of a number of F units that operated out of Auburn, WA on transfer and area road freights after the 1970 BN merger. This lasted until about 1980 when a slowing economy gave... (more)

CNW 6831 and mates have attached to a string of trailers on flat cars that will soon leave Wood St. Yard, Chicago as 2nd-245, The Falcon on a 12 hour race over the 500 mile C&NW mainline to the UP... (more)

Milwaukee Road's local to Eau Claire, WI was shifted to CNW trackage rights in the late 70s from their own line between Eau Claire and Trevino, WI, then CBQ trackage rights to Winona, MN. This tra... (more)

BN 9211 and two more SD60Ms are serving as helpers on Crawford Hill in northwestern Nebraska. These helpers have just shoved a coal train up the hill and at the crest, Belmont Road, they are now s... (more)

Santa Fe 537, an FM H12-44 switcher was in storage with several other FMs in September 1972. By 1974 this unit would be retired. The shot was taken at Corwith diesel shops on Chicago's southwest s... (more)

Although Chesapeake & Ohio was headquartered in Cleveland, they had no rails there. However, B&O had a branch into town and provided local service to connect with their east-west mainline that ran... (more)

Before a Fairhaven transportation center was built south of downtown, Bellingham relied on these two former Great Northern structures for accessing GN, BN and later Amtrak passenger service. BN an... (more)

The eastbound Canadian exits the tunnel above Field near Hwy 1, but slows to a stop just outsie the east portal.

A fresh coat of paint does not appear to be enough to keep CNW 1685 going. The unit is stored dead and appears to be in the process of being parted out at Huron, SD in October 1980. Sister unit 1... (more)