Before a fire gutted the tower in 2005, De Val Tower directed traffic on the CNW Harvard Sub, CNW New Line Sub and the SOO Line.

Burlington Northern operated a former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy branch from Sterling to Earlville, Illinois. The branch utilizes 0.8 miles of trackage rights on Chicago & North Western’s Troy... (more)

Burlington Northern’s local operating from Sterling to Earlville, Illinois, pauses just north of Earlville. The branch used to cross Chicago & North Western’s Troy Grove line here, but it now ... (more)

CNW's Eden Turn, powered by a pair of Geeps, switches the yard in Fond Du Lac, WI in March of 1988. The train, led by CNW 4467, will soon head south back to Butler, WI.

It’s a dreary, damp and crummy day in the Chicago area on November 23, 1986, in a view of the Chicago & North Western’s locomotive facility at Proviso Yard. Among all the EMD units there that ... (more)

CWFBT-5 hurries back to the Black Thunder Mine behind a couple of C&NW DC units as it crosses the flatlands of eastern Nebraska. Fuji Sensia.

CNW 6812 leads a pair of UP GEs on a coal train while a B&O switcher is seen in nearby Pegasus Yard. Tom Golden photo.

Tom Golden photo.

Tom Golden photo.

At the time, the thought of a coal train being nostalgic would have seemed ridiculous. The years have not been kind to the coal business and thus scenes such as this, that were once as common as c... (more)

CNW 884 brings a train thru St. Francis, WI on CNW's New Line in September of 1985. The background for this shot is dramatically different today as it is dominated by the Lake Park Freeway.

CNW 4279 switches Richardson Company in July of 1986. Both the siding and the buildings are long gone unfortunately.

Chicago & North Western GP7 4148 (ex-RI 4473, nee-DRGW 5101) | Casper Wyoming | October 1988

CNW 6710 leads a trio of Alco's on an ore train thru Rock, MI in May of 1986.

Chicago and Northwestern GP7 1634 with a southbound freight at Washburn WI May 1970. The Ashland wayfreight operated as a local out of Spooner, through Hayward and up to Ashland with runs to Washb... (more)