A pair of CNW Dash 8s rolls coal east for Chicago. The train is about 60 miles west of Clinton as they approach Mechanicsville. Note the westbound main still has stick rail in it. The CNW bought t... (more)

CNW 8543 with a UP SD60M lead Sheboygan, WI to Coal Creek, WY empties out of Fremont, NE on a summer afternoon portending of storms. There were 12 trains in 3 hours this afternoon in what was just... (more)

Powered by a pair of GE C40-8 locomotives, a westbound Chicago & North Western coal empty heading back to Wyoming for reloading, slices through Illinois farm country as it approaches Agnew on Octo... (more)

A westbound Chicago and North Western coal train crosses the large bridge over the Mississippi River at Clinton, Iowa, on October 9, 1994, led by GE C40-8 No. 8543.

A Chicago and North Western coal train heads west through Nelson, Illinois, on the afternoon of October 9, 1994. Two GE Dash 8-40Cs, Nos. 8543 and 8573 power the empty train of new hoppers.