After the retirement of the Alco fleet the CNW tried many combination's of units on the various jobs in the Escanaba area. The Dumper job which had been home to either a pair of C628's or a C628 w... (more)

CNW 6721,6712,6724 have the Groveland Empties in tow as they work RR east but compass west near Bark River. CNW crews called this job the Antoine turn. It normally had a 11AM call time at Escanaba... (more)

CNW 4174 along with an SD40-2 B-unit and leased LS&I 3008 are assigned to the dumper job at Escanaba. The 4174 is looking good in a fresh coat of CNW green and yellow but doesn't have much of a fu... (more)

Alco's here, there, and everywhere! C628's 6730,6715,6707 roll loads east, while 6708,6709,6710 cool there heels in the siding at Brampton. After CNW removed the siding at Maple Ridge(just north o... (more)

CNW 8552 rolls ore loads east at Rock. A Locotrol equipped C40 is pushing on the rear. This was quite a change from operations of a few years earlier when these jobs were powered by trios of C628'... (more)

C628's 6712,6703,6713 are Escanaba bound a couple miles south of Brampton. Winter weather in Upper Michigan tends to alternate between clear cold days and slightly warmer snowy weather.

A clean CNW ex CR SD45 rests outside of the last CNW engine facility in Escanaba. When a large crane manufacturing company closed a plant in Escanaba the CNW bought a building at the former plant ... (more)

CNW occasionally was able to score some all-rail ore off the Marquette Range. The summer of 1991 was one of those times and this westbound nearing Little Lake has 137 empty coal hoppers trailing t... (more)

Kind of like now days for awhile in the late 70's it seemed everyone was getting into the locomotive leasing business. An outfit named Chrome Crankshaft bought a number of Ex SP RS32's and repaint... (more)

November is deer season in Upper Michigan, with both bow hunting and rifle season taking up most of the month. Whats that have to do with railroading you may ask? Things are surely different now b... (more)

A lone SD40-2 leads C&NW’s daily southbound past the Oconto depot. Built about 1910, the brick depot became an eyesore in later years. An attempt was made to save it in the 1990s, but it was tor... (more)

In its last days running as a Chicago & North Western freight, the daily Escanaba to Green Bay train blares its way through Oconto as winter gives way to spring. The Marinette Sub offered four bl... (more)

After waiting out a meet with a eastbound ore load and taking a lunch break at the Little Lake VFW this westbound empty has tied back onto their train and with one of the few Zito yellow C628's on... (more)

CNW 6718,808 head an Extra Powers Turn around the wye with 29 cars near the ore dock. The CNW GP30's would be found around Escanaba every now and then during the late 70's if power became tight. T... (more)

These two GE's made it into service on the CNW from October 1978 until November 1981. The CNW had leased them to try out in a number of different applications and GE applied CNW paint before sendi... (more)