With three ex-Norfolk & Western C628’s in charge, an empty Chicago & North Western ore train crosses the causeway at Goose Lake, Michigan.

Chicago & North Western EMD SD40-2 Nos. 6826 and 6827 trundle along the shore of scenic Devil’s Lake, near Baraboo, Wisconsin, enroute to Milwaukee with the ever-popular circus train on July 10,... (more)

On Chicago & North Western’s Adams Line, a C&NW potash extra heads eastbound through North Lake, Wisconsin, on a wintery March 22, 1992.

Chicago & North Western train 569 curves through Wales, west of Waukesha, Wisconsin, in August 1983, powered by a trio of EMD GP7 locomotives. Early the following year, C&NW abandoned this line fr... (more)

A pair of Chicago & North Western EMD GP7s takes a break from switching chores at Butler in a Wisconsin snowstorm on January 10, 1993, as C&NW’s Proviso to Itasca freight finishes up making a pi... (more)

An empty Chicago & North Western unit coal train rolls past milepost 110 through Walker, Wyoming, on the afternoon of July 25, 1992. The train is headed back to load at one of the mines in Powder ... (more)

A northbound C&NW coal train has just crossed the diamond at Deval with an interesting mix of power. Scanned from a print.

December in Wisconsin
The skies are leaden and scenery umber, with many shades between, fading to the horizon. A skiff of snow over harvested fields brightens the scene, but chilly wind... (more)

Ten miles out of North Platte, a solid set of Chicago & North Western power – C&NW GP50 5091 and SD40-2s 6915 and 6932 – hustle a Union Pacific freight eastbound through the crossovers at Keit... (more)

On its very first run, brand new Chicago & North Western GE C44-9W No. 8603 is paired up with vintage C&NW GP7 No. 4323 switching a train of coal empties on the spur into Sheboygan Power Plant at ... (more)

Proviso to Seattle double-stacks depart Fremont, NE on a spring afternoon. The C&NW colors look better and better as time goes by, as does the classic "ball and bar" corporate logo that ... (more)

A Chicago & North Western extra west out of Butler Yard passes the wigwags protecting Townline Road grade crossing west of North Lake, Wisconsin, on January 24, 1993.

As dusk approaches, CNW 4142 takes the switch at Clyman Jct. on CNW's Adams Line and begins the trek back to Jefferson Jct. with a large cut of grain hoppers. Business on this Wisconsin branch lin... (more)

CNW 8644 looks attractive leading a five unit lashup on a westbound double-stack train. There was a great cacophony as the train rattled over the BNSF diamond in Fremont, NE on a late spring after... (more)

A CNW E-unit pushes at NW Line rush hour train under the Lake Street 'L' and into CNW's Chicago Passenger Terminal on a smoggy May morning.