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)
CNW 8528 basks in some late evening light as it brings a loaded coal train past MP 107 (East Walker, WY.) on the joint CNW/BN coal line in May 0f 1991.
CNW 4467 brings the Eden Turn thru West Bend, WI in March of 1988. The train is on the CNW Air Line. The FRVR would acquire this line later in the year. The WC took over in 1993 and abandoned the ... (more)
When Chicago & North Western placed their order for C44-9W's. They decided to save a little money by ordering them without air conditioning. So soon as the temperatures got warm in the coal Fields... (more)
8711 leads UP SD60 6034.
The other Altoona.....CNW 6926 arrives at the yard in Altoona, WI. in March of 1990. We would spend the rest of the day chasing the outbound train that is ready to depart.
Westbound on the Harriman Cutoff, near Dale Junction. Trailing units are SP SD40T-2 8246 and UP SD40-2 3677.
CNW 6805 leads train ALSSA thru Roberts, WI on a beautiful day in March of 1990.
CNW 4138 leads short a freight past one of their unique semaphores at St. Francis, WI in September of 1986.
CNW 6867 leads a freight across Pike Creek near Somers, WI in January of 1989. The train is on CNW's New Line.