Due to a wreck on the Santa Fe transcon the Santa Fe is being forced to detour their high priority trains on the Union Pacific. Due to cab controls most foreign power is unable to lead over the UP... (more)
CNW 6894 passes the tower in Nelson, IL on a brutally cold day in January of 1985. The tower is long gone but the coaling tower in the background still stands.
A northbound unit coal train clears the home signal at Deval, headed for a Wisconsin utility plant . The train originated on the BN in Wyoming, and this contract was later lost to the UP.