A CNW SD40-2 leads a BNSF Heritage I SD40-2 through Rochelle. Tom Golden photo.

CNW 6710 leads a loaded ore train near Brampton, MI in May of 1986. It's hard to believe that this line sees little, if any ore traffic at this time.

A westbound Chicago & North Western coal train sits for a crew change at Butler, Wisconsin, as hostlers move SD45 No. 951 past in the yard in August 1983.

CNW 411 reverses at the Illinois Railway Museum.

CNW 411 leads the bilevel train west past the searchlight east of Union.

This C&NW coal train has departed the crew change at Clinton, IA with a shovel resting inside a grab iron on the nose of 6806, just in case it's needed..

CNW caboose #12440 brings up the rear of a work train in the Milwaukee area in July of 1967. Bob Ferge photo from my collection.

An eastbound freight led by SD50 CNW 7010 rolls by Eau Claire Tower and the Uniroyal tire plant in Eau Claire. The tower will soon be out of service, Uniroyal will close, and CNW will join UP by 1... (more)

The local from Altoona, WI to Cornell and back climbs out of the Chippewa River valley at Chippewa Falls en route to the junction at Norma, just up the hill, and the branch line to Cornell. CNW us... (more)

Flagman Please! CNW 7005 creeps thru the connection in Cameron, WI with an empty ore train in November of 1990. The train was westbound on the WC (ex-SOO) and is heading southbound on the CNW. Onc... (more)

C&NW's single tracking of the main line in western Iowa had resulted in a real choke point for traffic as coal and intermodal business increased and, with the merger, UP promptly began adding a se... (more)

On a hot day in August 1983, a Chicago & North Western track crew gets a lift on a ballast regulator heading south on the Belt Line approaching Burleigh Avenue in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. A freight w... (more)

CNW 4402 leads a GP-7 with a CNW Proviso Yard to CSX Barr Yard transfer train, passing the Tower and crossing the diamonds at the busy Blue Island Illinois hot spot.

A CNW line up at IRM with the 411, 4160, 1689, 6847, 8646. The CNW 4160 has since been stripped of its CNW paint in preparation for a fresh paint job.

Sometimes at a photo shoot the best shots aren't even part of the shoot. With the CNW night shoot at IRM all done, and the only people left are the crews putting power away we find 8701 sitting ou... (more)