A fine looking C-boat leads cowls from both EMD and GE into the late evening haze west of Fort Madison. Quite a difference in appearance from today's railroading with a nearly endless string of bo... (more)

Soo 757 and 778 roll past River Junction with 100 cars on train 222.

Fort Madison in the summer seems to be hot, humid and sticky...it was sure a great spot to sit back along the Mississippi and watch big time Santa Fe action in the 70's and 80's though. This eastb... (more)

Another oldie from the little yellow boxes! I don't know if the pair of Sharks were ever officially owned by MN, but they did spend a summer or two traipsing back and forth from Cadillac to either... (more)

CN's smaller US roads seemed to flip power around every now and then in the 70's and 80's. The group of RS-11's made a couple trips from the CV to the DWP. Geeps also were swapped fairly often bet... (more)

TP&W power passed through Fort Madison on run through trains to Kansas City during the 80's. This is a westbound with TPW 2007, CR 3074 and TPW 2008 leading 25 cars along Santa Fe's well maintaine... (more)

A huge Boise Cascade paper mill at Rumford rated a daily train back in the 80's...maybe it still does today. If so power like this surely isn't leading it. MEC U25B 226 and U18B 406 are making an ... (more)

MEC 572 is spotted with a fairly large caboose in front of an old engine shed in Livermore Falls.

Ann Arbor 388, 387, 390 are southbound near Cadillac. The AA's GP35's rode on AAR type B trucks from retired Alco FA's.

ATSF 8010,5922,5666 head east with a short 17 car train near Fort Madison.

The MEC bought a group of ex RI U25B's after the Rock went under. Not all of them were made operational as some were to far gone and became parts sources to get the majority of them up and running... (more)

Soo 353 and 720 near the roundhouse in Stevens Point. This slide is from my collection and has no photographer listed...possibly Joe Stauber. An RS-1 along with a GP30 makes for an odd look. The 3... (more)

WC 6555 and 6586 trundle through the snow with ore loads south of Little Lake during the winter of 1997.

CNW Alcos roll along near Springfield in 1980. Before long the 1st generation Alco's would be retired and the more modern units like 4244 would be transferred east to work CNW lines in Wisconsin a... (more)

WP-BN Inside Gateway traffic at Greenville during the summer of 1971 in this photo from my collection. Power is BN 2545, 2532, 4361 and another unknown unit. Photographer name appears to be G. Wig... (more)