This was C&NW Weekend at the Illinois Railway Museum, where all the C&NW locomotives on museum property were given a chance to run trains on the mainline. The museum also hosted the C&NW Historica... (more)

This was C&NW Weekend at the Illinois Railway Museum, where all the C&NW locomotives on museum property were given a chance to run trains on the mainline. The museum also hosted the C&NW Historica... (more)

Chicago and North Western, C&NW SD40's 871- 879, at Des Moines, Iowa. June 15, 1981. Jack D Kuiphoff photo ©

CNW 4554 crosses the Fond Du Lac River in Fond Du Lac, WI in July of 1988. CNW's Airline would become the Fox River Valley Railroad in December of 1988 and get absorbed into the WC in 1993. Althou... (more)

C&NW, Chicago and Northwestern, GP30 814 at Oak Island, Newark, New Jersey. March 11, 1977. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Storage, and SO MUCH to see here. GP7's, GP30's F's, cabooses, and freight cars with no graffiti. C&NW, yard, Des Moines, Iowa. January 13, 1983. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

C&NW, Chicago and North Western GP7 4357, built as QNS&L 111- GP7 4450, built as SLSF 570, with a local at Des Moines, Iowa, June 16, 1981. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

CNW 7015 crosses the Eau Claire River in Altoona, WI. in February of 1990.

CNW 6706 has just crossed the Goose Lake causeway and is about to duck under Hwy M-35 with an empty ore train in May of 1986. The train will soon enter LS&I tracks for the short trip to the Empire... (more)

CNW SD50 No. 7009 leads the Coach train @ Johnson siding during CNW weekend.

Remember the past and the present... During CNW weekend, the Union Pacific sent the UP 1995, the CNW heritage SD70ACe to be on display during the action both Saturday and Sunday. With the theme i... (more)

IRM's Rock Island GP7 is patched as CNW 4160 for CNW weekend as it shoves the caboose train back towards the barn at the end of the day.

Back in 1993, the Cedar River flooded out the CNW mainline around Cedar Rapids. Mainline trains ended up making the slow trek thru downtown Cedar Rapids for a few days. Later this day, the trains ... (more)

CNW 964 is ready for a crew change at CNW's Butler Yard in March of 1988. Once a busy terminal with trains to Green Bay, the Twin Cities, and the Twin Ports (plus numerous locals and extras), only... (more)

The CN&W use their Oelwein Shops til May 31, 1994. The line from Oelwein from Marshalltown was severed in 1987-88 due to the construction of the highway thru Waterloo. The CNW then used the IANR t... (more)