CNW 7015 crosses the Eau Claire River in Altoona, WI. in February of 1990.

LTS72 departs Altoona with 20 empties destined for Hi-Crush's Valley sand plant.

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.

NS 4060 leads a quartet of NS power on the Union Pacific at Altoona, WI. The crew is doubling over some tracks to complete assembly of their Altoona to Adams, WI bound train. Once assembled and ai... (more)

LTS82 returns to Altoona after working industries on the Chippewa Falls Sub and interchanging with the Wisconsin Northern at Norma. The Eau Claire River bridge was constructed in 1898, and housed ... (more)

UP 1938 & 1820, SD40-2s, lead local L83 across the Eau Claire River bridge between Eau Claire & Altoona as the train approaches Altoona Yard to tie up. This local operates Monday, Wednesday & Frid... (more)

EMD siblings line up at Altoona. SD40-2 no. 6821 is from the second order of SD40-2s that CNW made and was received in February 1974, just as I went to work for C&NW. It survived the UP merger reb... (more)

A UP trio of road power sits near a wye at Altoona Yard awaiting their next assignment while a pair of SD40-2s handles switching at the east end of the yard. That's a far cry from the days when C&... (more)

LTS82 is almost back home to Altoona as they traverse the 1898 built Eau Claire River Bridge.

CNW 932 was one of seven U30Cs acquired by C&NW in between multiple orders of SD45s in early 1968. This I believe was the only one painted in the scheme shown. This variation was tried from the la... (more)

CNW 1278 was always a favorite switch engine to see around Eau Claire and Altoona in the 1960's and early 1970's. Usually it was parked between runs at Eau Claire, but one of its chores was to han... (more)

Job 82 crosses the Eau Claire River Bridge on the return trip from Bayport. This was a gauntlet bridge for most of the 20th century.

Remote control yard job YAA60R takes some headroom out of the yard at CP X092 with three RCL SD40Ns for power.

CNW 1040, a Baldwin VO-1000 re-engined by EMD relaxed outside the Altoona depot & yard office between switching duties. These units replaced Alco S-2 switchers previously assigned to Altoona for y... (more)

YAA60R works in Altoona with the UP 685 and 1825. The 685 is one of probably 2 or 3 ex-SP units left on the UP roster, that still have the L-window cab. Surprisingly, the 685 even went through the... (more)