CNW 932 was one of seven U30Cs acquired by C&NW in between multiple orders of SD45s in early 1968. This I believe was the only one painted in the scheme shown. This variation was tried from the la... (more)

CNW 1278 was always a favorite switch engine to see around Eau Claire and Altoona in the 1960's and early 1970's. Usually it was parked between runs at Eau Claire, but one of its chores was to han... (more)

CNW 4344 (ex-QNSL 144) drills the West Chicago yard in November of 1988.

Yellow and green in the land of warbonnets
On June 23, 1996, an eastbound Chicago & North Western (well, Union Pacific by this date, but still doesn’t look like it) intermodal train sp... (more)

CNW 8009 leads a seasonal ore train thru Rice Lake, WI in November of 1990. This loaded train will continue south a few miles to Cameron, where it will get on Wisconsin Central tracks and head eas... (more)

CNW 1040, a Baldwin VO-1000 re-engined by EMD relaxed outside the Altoona depot & yard office between switching duties. These units replaced Alco S-2 switchers previously assigned to Altoona for y... (more)

When coal trains ran in profusion, another set of empties for the Powder River basin departs Fremont, NE behind a pre-AC-era set of power: Dash8, SD60 and SD40-2 all in C&NW colors. Fuji Sensia.

C&NW power was fairly common along UP - particularly on the run-thru trains between Chicago and North Platte, but even west of North Platte. Many C&NW and UP units had dual cab signal equipment wh... (more)

An eastbound coal train, led by Chicago & North Western GE AC4400CW No. 8835, rumbles through Wolfe, Wyoming, on the Union Pacific’s Powder River Subdivision on July 6, 1996.

An eastbound Chicago & North Western freight, led by EMD GP50 No. 5070 with horns blaring, blows by the De Kalb Bank and across the busy intersection of Illinois Highway’s 38 and 23 at De Kalb, ... (more)

CNW 8501 brings a coal train thru the bucolic countryside near Arcadia, IA in August of 1994. Driving on Hwy 30 kept you in close contact with the CNW mainline all the way thru Iowa and the consta... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific coal train, led by Chicago & North Western AC4400CW No. 8818, drops down the two-percent grade out of Tunnel 15 and is about to enter Tunnel 14, near Crescent, Colorado,... (more)

Led by Chicago & North Western EMD SD50 No. 7020 and Union Pacific GE C40-8 No. 9201, an eastbound grain train works past a field of summer flowers between Rochelle and Creston, Illinois, on Augus... (more)

Not long after UP swallowed up CNW, a pair of flashy North Western GEs climb Encina Hill in Eastern Oregon with a Z train.

Winter in northern Illinois doesn’t always mean lots of snow, but it can bring fog and freezing drizzle. On the first day of winter in 1991, a westbound Chicago & North Western freight bangs ove... (more)