A BNSF grain shuttle rolls east along the confluence of the Buffalo River with the Mississippi just north of Alma. The eastbound train's next stop is North La Crosse, WI where it will change crews... (more)

Santa Fe no. 2309, a GP38u, is shown at Ft. Madison, IA between assignments. The unit was built as GP38 in June 1970 as no. 3509. It became BNSF 2199.

NS 1115 leads a CN local east at Hermansville, MI after doing work on the line between Powers and Iron Mountain, MI. The train will turn traffic over to other CN trains at Powers.

Soo Line 6406 and 6408, acquired second hand, started life in January 1970 as Illinois Central SD40A locomotives. They were built on SDP45 length underframes which permitted the largest possible f... (more)

A boat tour of the Duluth-Superior harbor includes a cruise past the former DM&IR Dock 6, now operated by Canadian National Railway. This is the end of the line for much of the iron ore handled fr... (more)

A tour of the Duluth-Superior harbor revealed this last remaining span of the former Great Northern Ry. interstate bridge between Duluth and Superior. Prior to about 1961 this bridge handled most ... (more)

CP GP38 no. 3015 wears its second version of Action Red in the company of current scheme no. 2302. These units were parked at Duluth, MN between switching and transfer duties.

CP 9011, SD40-2B 6063 and SD40-2 6041 lead a coal train onto the CP mainline east of downtown Mission City having crossed over the Fraser River from the line to Roberts Bank. The empties will head... (more)

CP 9545 made a surprise appearance at Cisco, running westbound on CP while a westbound CN train crossed overhead. The CP train was deemed hot enough that CP ran it against the flow of normal joint... (more)

CP 9302 leads a freight west through the Fraser River Canyon at Spuzzum, BC. The 9302 was one of four units of this type purchased by CP in December 1999. These locos featured carbodies similar to... (more)

CP 3009 and a sister GP38 have a short train headed south from Mission, BC to the U.S. border at Sumas, WA with the Sumas Turn out of Coquitlam Yard east of Vancouver. The daily turn primarily han... (more)

CP 9511 rolls its empty coal train along Spuzzum siding and will stop for a meet with a westbound intermodal train before heading east to North Bend, BC to change crews.

CP 5592 winds its way west through the Thompson Canyon near the location of the Kumsheen Rafting Resort east of Lytton, BC. The train is about 10 minutes away from leaving the Thompson for the Fra... (more)

CP 5592 leads its freight west through the Thompson River Canyon and is about to cross over TransCanada Hwy 1 east of Lytton, BC. Several cars behind the locomotives there is an icicle breaker car... (more)

The Royal Hudson Excursion train prepares to leave Golden, BC to head west to Kamloops on its return from a tour that took in across Canada from Vancouver, returning via the Soo Line through the u... (more)