Location please! CNW's dumper job works the ore yard on a beautiful evening in May of 1986. Only 2 units were needed for this job instead of the usual 3 units on the trains to the mines.

CNW 4370 switches one of the few remaining industries east of the Milwaukee River near downtown Milwaukee. The crane appears to be a Bucyrus Erie Model 30B, manufactured only a few miles south of ... (more)

The Milwaukee Road's shops in Milwaukee were huge, and virtually inaccessible to most. Unless you ventured up to the viaducts that crossed the Menomonee Valley. Here is a shot from the 35th Street... (more)

"Route of the 400"...Well is was at one time. CNW 4131 is switching a warehouse on Erie Street in Milwaukee's Third Ward in April of 1983. The Milwaukee Depot was a 1/2 mile north of her... (more)

MILW #147 crests Lake Hill on a beautiful Winter day in 1986. Lake Hill was deceptively steep, sometime requiring helper units to make it up the hill. The tower in the background was eventually bu... (more)

A St. Paul-Kansas City freight rolls by the Rock Island (and CGW) depot in Waterloo, IA behind a pair of Geeps and two F7Bs. CNW 4351 was originally Quebec North Shore and Labrador 121, and 1953 e... (more)

MILW train 202 climbs east out of Kittitas, WA over Renslow trestle on its way to Beverly, WA and Othello for a crew change. The bridge which still stands in 2016 spans a valley that interstate 90... (more)

An autumn snowstorm has blanketed the Oquirrh Mountains and the Tooele Valley as an APLA5D stacker pulls west between Erda and Warner on Oct. 27, 1996.

Rebuilt by the C&NW from UP E9B 962B a with a cab. After the rebuild she was called a "Crandall Cab" after C&NW Assistant Superintendent of Motive Power M. H. Crandall who designed the ... (more)

Five Milwaukee Road GP-series diesels rest on the garden tracks next to the turntable at the railroad’s West Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Shops in 1984. In the following year, the bankrupt railroad wou... (more)

Northwestern RR and Northwest Airlines: CNW SD45 #964 leads an eastbound train through Bryn Mawr interlocking toward Proviso Yard, while a Northwest Airlines 747 freighter passes overhead on fina... (more)

Museum Showcase weekend at IRM featured the Frisco 1630 with a 11 car train, a train set representative of a 1950's C&NW scoot powered by an RSD5, many electric passenger cars, and this, the sole ... (more)