Need a facelift? CNW 402 needs a crane and a forklift to re-rail the front truck after a minor derailment near the enginehouse in Marshalltown, IA in May of 1985.

CNW 8042 has really dug up the gravel because of a derailment in June of 1992. The derailment occurred at the junction of CNW's Old Line and New Line in St. Francis, WI. That bent rail looks like ... (more)

CNW 6721 awaits her fate along with the rest of the Alco C628 fleet in Escanaba, MI in September of 1988. After a long, productive career on both the N&W and the C&NW, all the units would unfortun... (more)

CNW 972 leads an SD40-2 and GP7 around a curve just east of Elk Mound, WI with train 483, a Chicago-Twin Cities time freight. At this time the train was scheduled in CNW's operating timetable as a... (more)

Chicago & North Western Railroad C44-9Ws No. 8608 and 8707 lead a 37 car North Platte to Oakland train of pigs, racks, & stacks on the former Western Pacific through Marblehead on Aug. 3, 1996.

Train APLA5X is now on UP rails about 3 miles west of the crew change at Fremont, NE and is passing the elevator at what is called Troxel in the UP ETT. The tracks serving the elevator were once p... (more)

Brand new CNW C40-8 8509 departs Bill with empties for the coal fields in May of 1991.

CNW 8006 leads an ore train on LS&I tracks at Eagle Mills Jct. in July of 1990.

Cuba City was located on the narrow gauge Galena and Southern Railroad which was acquired by the C & NW. General and then President Grant and his wife road the train several times from Galena, I... (more)

The sanding tower is all that is left of the once sprawling engine facility in Escanaba in June of 1988. The engine facilities were moved to the ex-P&H complex west of here and the tracks no longe... (more)

CNW caboose 11037 brings up the end of an ore train as it ducks under M35 near Marquette, MI in August of 1984.

Little is left of the C&NW's line between Fond Du Lac and Clyman Junction when this photo was taken in February of 1990. The fog and frost only add to the sense of abandonment.

CNW 4386 backs down the connection from the Milwaukee Road/Soo Line to Jones Island in February of 1986. The CNW was detouring on the Milw/Soo a short distance due to a bridge failure on their own... (more)

Looking like a railroad train you can model, CNW 4334 leads a short freight on the wye at Saint Francis in May of 1983. As soon as the semaphore gives a clear signal, the train will continue westw... (more)

We are looking down the WSOR (ex-MILW) Cambria branch at South Randolph, WI as CNW 7015 passes overhead on the Adams Line in March of 1990.