At Genoa, WI, an eastbound BNSF Seattle-Chicago intermodal trains passes one of the locks and dams of the upper Mississippi River.  Genoa is just south of La Crosse, WI, on the former CB&Q between Chicago and the Twin Cities, a route that carried two daily “Zephyrs”, the overnight “Blackhawk”, and GN’s “Empire Builder” and the NP’s “North Coast Limited”, and now serves as the eastern end of BNSF’s northern transcontinental route.  One of the most spectacular rail routes in North America, the CB&Q referred to the river-running between Savanna, IL, and Prescott, WI with the slogan “Where nature smiles for 300 miles”. (photo by Scott Wartchow, submitted by Fred Ripley)