Canadian National local freight L518 heads north into Fond du Lac, Wis., with a train of empty paper boxcars from Quad Graphics in Lomira on Aug. 4, 2012. Photo by Craig Williams […]
Beer, cheese, and paper
Railroad: Canadian National
Canadian National to abandon northern Wisconsin line NEWSWIRE
CRANDON, Wis. – Canadian National has filed a notice of exemption with the Federal Surface Transportation Board to abandon a former Soo Line route in northern Wisconsin. The 6.4-mile line is on CN’s Pembine Subdivision, between milepost 242.21 (formerly milepost 243.00 on the old Shawano Subdivision) in Argonne and milepost 235.85 (formerly milepost 249.38) at Crandon. […]
Photos of CN steam at Palmerston, Ont., by Jim Shaughnessy
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Local hero
With a short five-car train, Canadian National’s local out of Dubuque, Iowa, has just crossed the Mississippi River and pops out of the short tunnel in East Dubuque, IL. The train will travel down the BNSF Railway using trackage to an industry that CN switches before calling it a day and returning home after dark. Photo […]
CN 2-8-0 at Chipman, N.B.
Canadian National 2-8-0 No. 2444, assigned as the switcher in Chipman, N.B., negotiates the steep grade and tight curves at the town’s brickyard on a gray day in November 1953. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Foreigner
Canadian National grain train G884 heads back east with three CSX locomotives on Jan. 19, 2014. The train is operating on trackage rights over BNSF Railway’s Aurora Subdivision from East Dubuque to Portage, Ill. Photo by Matt Krause […]
Canadian National repaints E9 in heritage colors NEWSWIRE
No. 102 in transit to Winnipeg. Jonathan Lee CHICAGO – Canadian National has repainted E9A No. 102 in a variation of its classic green-and-black 1950s paint scheme. The unit, which was repainted at CN’s Woodcrest Shop in Homewood, is making its debut on a business train inspecting the Winnipeg–Chicago corridor April 16-18, although ES44DCs Nos. 2297 […]
Drew’s Trackside Adventures: Episode 13 – Byron Hill, Wisconsin
In this polar vortex edition of Drew’s Trackside Adventure for March 2014, host Drew Halverson and the MRVP crew make their way along Canadian National’s Waukesha subdivision in eastern Wisconsin. They capture the railroad battling the elements and gravity over a 1-percent grade known as Byron Hill. In addition to the railroad action, the guys […]
Drew’s Trackside Adventures: Episode 13 – Byron Hill, Wisconsin
In this polar vortex edition of Drew’s Trackside Adventure for March 2014, host Drew Halverson and the MRVP crew make their way along Canadian National’s Waukesha subdivision in eastern Wisconsin. They capture the railroad battling the elements and gravity over a 1-percent grade known as Byron Hill. In addition to the railroad action, the guys […]
Poof
Canadian National train M345 bucks a drift at Leverett, Ill., in near-blizzard conditions on Jan. 6, 2014, with a pair of CSX ES44ACs in charge. Photo by Erik Coleman […]
Industrial landscape
Two of the few remaining Elgin, Joliet & Eastern-painted SD38-2s are switching the industrial plants east of Morris, Ill., on Dec. 30, 2012. Canadian National acquired the “J” in 2009. Photo by Jonathan Hill […]
Canadian National Fenelon Falls, Ontario depot drawings
During a family vacation several years ago, I photographed the former Canadian National Ry. Fenelon Falls, Ont., station. This building stands on a now abandoned 55-mile-long rural branch line that once connected the town of Lindsay to Haliburton. The station houses an art gallery and now has board-and-batten sheathing. However, I’ve found several old pictures […]
