CN SD40-2W no. 5246 surrounds itself with a variety of yard and road power at Thornton Yard in Pt. Mann, BC. This facility is CN's primary classification yard and locomotive shops in the Vancouver... (more)

CN SD40-2W no. 5249 and an older SD40 are all the power needed to handle this eastbound empty coal train from Roberts Bank to Boston Bar through the water level Fraser Canyon. The train is crossin... (more)

CN GP9s 4572 and 4484 share space with other CN power at the Hamilton, Ontario engine servicing facility in September 1981. The two units show off their third color scheme under CN ownership. Buil... (more)

Soo Line SD60 no. 6037 leads a colorful combination of power on a westbound freight traversing the former Milwaukee Road mainline west of Milwaukee near Neshota, WI. Tall grass nearly hides the tr... (more)

Metra F40C leads a rush hour commuter train through Rondout, IL. The train is about to cross the EJ&E diamonds and diverge from the Chicago-Milwaukee mainline to the Fox Lake branch. The train wil... (more)

Corrected caption: This view shows the rear end view of the locomotive. Milwaukee Road boarded up this end eliminating the ability to control the unit from either end. In February 1995 the colors ... (more)

This view shows the side view of the cab end of the locomotive. Originally equipped with two cab ends, Milwaukee Road boarded up one end making the Little Joes operational from one end only.

Under lock down next to the Old Montana Prison Museum, but not under catenary, Milwaukee Road E70 is on display nicely restored in February 1995. 20 Little Joes were built in 1946 for export to th... (more)

The former Milwaukee Road freight house at Winona, MN is viewed from the passenger station platform, framed on the left by a MILW baggage car assigned to maintenance of way service. In 2020 the pa... (more)

WC SD45s 6529 and 6511 grind a stack and intermodal train up Byron Hill at Hwy. F after leaving North Fond du Lac for Chicago. This scene is now double track, part of CN's mainline through Wiscons... (more)

Railroad mergers often make strange bed fellows out of motive power. Who would have thought WC 711, a former Soo Line Alco trucked GP30 (same no.), would mate up with former Fox River Valley GP9 n... (more)

A pair of Norfolk Southern SD60s led by no. 6572 head south on the WC with train no. 50, a run through connection from North Fond du Lac, WI to the NS in Chicago. The train is rounding the curve a... (more)

DMIR SD38-2 heads up a trio of power for the morning train down to the Duluth ore dock at Proctor Yard. A crew has gotten on board and they will soon fetch their train of taconite loads for the de... (more)

A rare treat in todays railroading, EMD dominated trains. Out on the dry prairie land of the Powder River Basin, two BNSF coal trains pass each other with mostly EMD power. The only deviant is on ... (more)

BNSF 6357 leads a mix of colors on GEs through Alma, WI on an eastbound Z train at the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Lock & Dam no. 4. Note the sand pile in the distance created from ongoing dredg... (more)