Modest fresh snow and bitter cold forced CNW maintenance crews to drive out from Altoona to Rodell siding to shovel and pick ice out of the spring switches so train 415 could go "in the hole&... (more)
Train 415 eases up to the east end of Rodell siding east of Fall Creek on a crisp January afternoon. Fresh snow and cold temperatures required CNW maintenance of way crews to come out and shovel o... (more)
CNW 6812 leads train 415 as it waits in Rodell siding east of Fall Creek, Wis. for the caboose of train 406 to roll by. The trains were somewhat delayed by cold weather, and MOW crews had to come ... (more)
A CNW SD45 from its last order and an SD40 bend around the frozen shore of Dells Pond, part of the Chippewa River on a frigid February day in 1972. The train has just left Altoona, passed by the E... (more)
Train 415 splits the semaphores on CNW's Twin Cities mainline just east of Fall Creek, WI. CNW 6812 was delivered in the first batch of SD40-2s in 1973, the first new EMDs on CNW since the last ba... (more)
CNW 889, 873 and the 72 cars of train 415 swing around the busiest of the connections at Wyeville on this Chicago-Twin Cities freight. CNW had a large amount of SD40's and SD45's without dynamic b... (more)
