A nice mix of power featuring an SD45, SD40-2, GP7 and X-SOU SD24 head up westbound train 483 at Altoona. This priority train operated daily between Chicago and East Minneapolis via Milwaukee, Ada... (more)

CNW 972 leads a westbound train 483 through farm and forest land west of Elk Mound, WI on its way to East Minneapolis from Altoona. The train was a regularly scheduled Chicago-Twin Cities hotshot ... (more)

CNW 972 leads an SD40-2 and GP7 around a curve just east of Elk Mound, WI with train 483, a Chicago-Twin Cities time freight. At this time the train was scheduled in CNW's operating timetable as a... (more)

CNW 911 and mate have a good roll on their train as it appears to sail through a sea of corn at Rusk, WI, a few miles east of Menomonie. The train has left Altoona yard and is headed for East Minn... (more)

Train 483 behind SD45 901 has a good roll on it as the train heads west through Rusk, WI en route to Minneapolis, MN. The World War II era rails still posted a 60 mph speed limit in the early 70s,... (more)

CNW 972 splits the semaphores on a curve east of Knapp, WI as its train heads west from Altoona, WI to East Minneapolis, MN. This formerly double track mainline was single tracked with the ending ... (more)

A crew sets out leased SD24 PNCX 6335, a former Southern unit from the consist of train 483 at Altoona, WI. The three CNW units will continue the train west to East Minneapolis once switching is c... (more)

A trip down memory lane, CNW train 483 rolls west with U30C 936 on the point, and two SD45s trailing (949 and an unknown No.), crossing the Soo-Milwaukee diamond at Eau Claire tower. CNW SW1 No 12... (more)