CNW 6816 leads a westbound freight past Saint Francis tower in Milwaukee, WI. in March of 1987. The iconic semaphores that guarded the junction have just been replaced by searchlight signals and t... (more)

During the Illinois Railway Museum's 2025 Diesel Days event, a trio of GP7 models - CNW 1518 (GP7), IT 1605 (GP7), and CRIP 4506 (GP7R) - team up to lead the coach train, seen here entering Johnso... (more)

During the Illinois Railway Museum's 2025 Diesel Days event, CNW 1689 (RSD5) accelerates out of the museum grounds with the caboose train, pouring out a bit of Alco smoke in the process.

During the Illinois Railway Museum's 2025 Diesel Days event, CNW 411 (F7A) sits at the station with the bilevel train, to be used later during the weekend. In the background is Metra 614 (F40C), o... (more)

During the Illinois Railway Museum's 2025 Diesel Days, CNW 6847 (SD40-2) leads a train through the east end of Johnson Siding as the engineer looks attentively ahead, honking for Seeman Road.

CNW 880 leads a southbound (timetable east) freight across the Sheboygan River in Sheboygan, WI in August of 1985. This is no longer a thru route and you need a drone to see the east side of the b... (more)

The CNW ran a ton of grain trains to the ADM plant in Clinton out of Iowa. Many "CL"-bound grain trains could be found along the double-track mainline. For example, here, a load of grai... (more)

D40s and steel hoppers, an old-school coal train in the early 90s. An eastbound load passes by the iconic elevator structure at Clarence. The train is about 46 miles from the next crew change poin... (more)

The 2nd section of the Des Moines to Proviso manifest drops downgrade into DeWitt on the East Iowa Sub. The train is roughly 20 miles from the crew change at Clinton. The CNW 8547 became the CN 21... (more)

As I scan a lot of my early stuff, I see I went to a lot of places you wouldn't be caught dead in nowadays. It seems like in the 90s no one cared what you did; we were just a boy and his mom takin... (more)

Plow train north from Mason City passes approaches Northwood.

CNW 6702 leads a southbound (timetable east) train out of CNW's North Fond du Lac yard in April of 1977. It must have been a short train to justify only a single locomotive. Bob Ferge Kodachrome f... (more)

CNW at Rochelle Station

CNW stopped at Rochelle Station

Just Ahead Of The Storm. CNW 1518, IT 1605 and CRIP 4506 are in charge of the final train of Saturday's edition of Diesel Days. As they approach Seeman Road, a severe storm is on the appro... (more)