The AC44C6M's the dominate the region in CN's ore pool makes the daily L567/L568 train a target with their SD60's and or SD40-3's as the power on these assignments. Here comes L568 down from Rani... (more)

Due to PTC issues in Chicago, 337 ended up 12 hours late and with an oddball leader. The 5477 was on 338 until Hawthorne, where it swapped to 337 to help out with the issues. Now the train is seen... (more)

Due to PTC issues in Chicago, 337 ended up 12 hours late and with an oddball leader. The 5477 was on 338 until Hawthorne, where it swapped to 337 to help out with the issues. Now the train is seen... (more)

An 111-car loaded grain train from London, Stacyville, Toeterville, and Osage makes its way south on the Osage Sub at Nashua. 2 SD60s and 2 IANR slug sets make up an unusual power set for this mov... (more)

The 1st Cedar River job is on their way to Waterloo with cars out of mainly St. Ansgar. The job passes this windmill on the south side of Orchard, about 50 miles from Waterloo. A pair of SD60s is ... (more)

CN's local L567 from Proctor yard to Ranier, MN rolls north through the Zim/Sax bog with traffic for Fort Frances, the MD&W in Internation Falls and a decent cut of Wisconsin Central sand cars on ... (more)

A snowless February day with CN's L568, Ranier, MN to Proctor, MN, traveling track speed near m.p. 51 on the CN Missabe Sub.

Union Pacific SD60 2211 was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as UP 6056 in May 1986. It was renumbered into the railroad's 2100-series, as UP 2211, on November 21, 2001, in order f... (more)

A pair of KCS SD60s lead hoppers off the Omaha Sub at Ashlad, NE bound for Lincoln and beyond. Fuji Sensia.

The Union Pacific's tri-weekly local turn to Chester, Illinois heads back south towards Scott City, Missouri with an SD60 leader.

Bitter Cold and Snow ! - CN L54381 19 - Gladstone Mi to Sault St Marie - Eastbound, in Cooks, Michigan - CN 5408 and 5404 lead

On a very frigid Friday afternoon (-24c ambient) CPKC ran a snow spreader west across the 132 mile Nipigon Subdivision from Schreiber to Thunder Bay. After cleaning up Sprucewood they are on their... (more)

Snow Blasting !! CN L552-19 Westbound in Rapid River Michigan (Michigan's Upper Peninsula). This is a daily train from Sault St Marie Ontario to Gladstone Mi.

After a set-out and pick-up at CN's Keenan yard, L568 is heading for CN's Proctor yard.

CNW 8003 is on the move after stopping to fix some sticking brakes near Brampton, MI in June of 1987. We had just alerted the crew to smoke coming from one of the ore cars at the back of the train... (more)