Uncertain future for the set on the Auxiliary Track in Battle Creek Yard. Every crew companied about running these COWL units because of Noise level and Heat. Visibility during shove moves was no... (more)

On the back side of the newly designated CN HARRIS SHOPS a Dangerous Goods and Derailment Training course has been established for Fire Fighter and First Responder Training. The Mock-Up offers a r... (more)

Not What It Seems. At the Derailment Training Center, CN 2412 drew the short end of the stick. Retired from mainline service, it found a way to escape the scrapper in the form of what you s... (more)

CN 5408, CN 2441 and a WC boxcar exchange stories at the Woodcrest Shops.

Canadian National Railway Dash 8-40CM 2408 was built by General Electric in February 1990. (CN Woodcrest Locomotive Shops, Homewood, Illinois – September 30, 2018) Photographed on railroad ... (more)

BCOL C40-8M 4609 pauses between switching moves at the South Yard in Prince George, BC.

CN's 0700 Prince George South Yard (North End) crew has "gone for beans" leaving BCOL C40-8M 4609 and CN SD40-2W 5280 idling outside of the lunch room. BCOL 4609 is the last of the serie... (more)

A pair of aging CN dash 8's lead CSX ethanol train K445

Canadian National, CN 2407-KCS 6626-WC 7528, Peary, Mnnesota. April 8, 2000. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

In August of 1990, Native Americans blocked both CN and CP tracks in Ontario, Canada. CN detoured several trains over the CNW from Chicago thru Wisconsin. Here we see a westbound detour train awai... (more)

Canadian National, CN C40-8M 2408, leads a north bound 107 at, mp134.3, CNR Bala sub, at McKechnie lake, Ontario. September 9, 2012. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Red white and blue! BCOL 4609 has departed Fond Du Lac and starts the assault of Byron Hill in September of 2011.

With many of the active C40-8W’s and -8M’s being removed from service on CSX lines, the surprise of seeing this one leading made our 3-hour trip to Rocky Mount well worth our time.

BCOL C40-8M 4605 sits in Chicago Heights awaiting movement to the scrapper.

There Was A Barge There. On February 25, 2015 CSXT 7549 (C40-8, 9/1989) leads CSX train Q156 through Fort Montgomery, New York on the shores of an icy Hudson River. In the mid-ground of the... (more)