MILW 943 appears to have an exclusive parking spot in downtown Eau Claire. The unit spent the weekend here, about a block east of their depot and small yard.

CNW Dash 9-44CW 8681 leads Union Pacific SD60Ms 6136 and 6318 and SD40-2 3343.

A CNW SD40-2 and UP SD40-2 head south through Blue Island. Tom Golden photo.

CNW 4279 leads an unusual consist on ESGBA thru Stephenson, MI in October of 1988. Seems like yesterday but it was almost 30 years ago, wow......

Just before Amtrak and the end of passenger service on the CNW, F7 4072A brings a Chicago-Milwaukee train past the Milwaukee Solvay Coke plant in Milwaukee, WI in April of 1971. Bob Ferge photo fr... (more)

CNW 6820 passes a MOW front end loader as it heads on to the BN at Saunders, WI in May of 1986. The train will use trackage rights to the Twin Cities. Note the train orders on a pole attached to a... (more)

Running extra #287 passes Joe E79 at the Alberton yard office with a hot train.

CNW 806 (ex-CGW) switches the north leg of the wye at Clyman Jct., WI in January of 1975. The line north to Fond Du Lac in now a bike trail but the coaling tower is still there. Bob Ferge photo fr... (more)

CNW 4162 wearing its final CNW color scheme has found a new life switching the elevator at Silver Creek, NE, adjacent to Union Pacific's mainline west from Omaha. Ten years after the UP-CNW merger... (more)

An unidentified FM switcher switches the CNW yard at Washington Street on Milwaukee's south side at dusk in December of 1965. The Allis depot is in the background Once the route of the famed "... (more)

CB&Q SD24 504 sits on display at IRM.

Busy times at Converse Junction
A Chicago & North Western coal train led by GE AC4400CW No. 8803 has just about finished loading at Antelope Mine at Converse Junction, Wyoming, on May 12... (more)

A westbound Milwaukee Road freight crosses the Soo Line diamonds rattling the windows of Duplainville tower on a snowless Wisconsin winter day in February 1984.

CNW 6823 is on the head end of PREMA, Proviso-East Minneapolis manifest, along with a Zito yellow GP40 and SD18. It sports CNW's final color scheme. To the left, SD60 8051 and SD18 6636 are being ... (more)

CNW Alco 4256 awaits its next assignment with several other Alco's at CNW's Escanaba, MI engine facility in August of 1984. This facility would soon be abandoned for the ex-P&H facility west of he... (more)