CNW 4144 is crossing the Sheboygan river in Sheboygan Falls, WI in July of 1985. Ahead is some street running on some track that date back to the 1890's.

CNW 4144 is crossing the small 36th Street Bridge on the South side of Sheboygan, WI in July of 1985. After making a set-out at Kohler the train will take a couple of boxcars to Kraft Cheese in Pl... (more)

Reverse Superelevation? CNW 8042 is leaning the wrong way after suffering a derailment in St. Francis, WI in June of 1992.

A CNW GP50 leads a pair of Union Pacific SD40-2s as they head west along the IHB main. Tom Golden photo.

CNW 6703 leads an ore train across the Goose Lake causeway near Marquette, MI in May of 1986. This area was Alco heaven in the mid-1980's.

One of the newer additions to the IRM C & NW roster sits outside the barn on display with other C & NW units at the winter Holiday express loading area.

Former C & NW commuter cars carry passengers for IRM Holiday train.

Snow is coming down pretty good at Butler Yard’s locomotive facility on a cold December night in 1983. EMD MP15DC switcher No. 1312 is surrounded by a group of more commonplace GP7s.

Former C & NW commuter cars begin Holiday special run at Illinois Railway Museum.

CNW 4158 switches Eden, WI on CNW's Airline in July of 1985. CN currently operates this line to Eden, but it is torn up south of here.

These 2 units pulling a string of TOFC are westbound on the Union Pacific mainline about 100 miles west of Omaha, NE.

CNW 421 and an E8 are positioning commuter trains at the throat to CNW's Madison Street station for the afternoon rush hour. Dozens of trains will move in and out of this junction in the next coup... (more)

Chicago and North Western’s entry into Powder River Basin in the early 1980’s left the railroad needing more motive power. It picked up 63 former Pennsylvania EMD SD45s just off lease from Con... (more)

A handsome pair of CNW SD50s, nos. 7005 and 7019 head west at Northport, NE in threatening weather with an empty coal train returning to the Powder River Basin. CNW and UP worked together to give ... (more)

CPLJR is westbound by the elevator at Schafer, NE on the Union Pacific main about 100 miles west of Omaha. On this winter day, the winds would typically turn 2" of dry powder into 8' drifts ... (more)