CSX SD40-3 4036 works A716 on the south end of the Dog House at Union City, Georgia.

A nice matched set of tunnel motor bodies ease a loaded ore train toward the Fairlane processing plant near Forbes, Minnesota on the former DM&IR. Finding a matched set like this is fairly hard (D... (more)

A trio of EMD tunnel motors ( DMIR 408, BLE 903, DMIR 400) round the curve at Iron Jct. and split the signals heading south on the Missabe Sub with taconite rock from the mine for the plant.

Snow is tapering off on the tail end of another snow event across NE Minnesota as the T-Bird trains from the mine to the plant and the plant to the mine continue their mission. Here are two EMD's... (more)

EMD SD40-3 tunnel motors 413 and 412 are northbound with empties as seen from a pedestrian overpass.

EMD SD40-3 tunnel motors 414 and 403 are southbound towards Two Harbors with a taconite train.

Helpers.

CN L515 is heading north at Clay Avenue after working at East Yard. They are returning to Pontiac with the various cars they collected along the way.

A duo of IC SD40-3s head light into Shops Yard.

SLR 394 is putting together its train in Southwark Yard with QGRY 6904, QGRY 3014, SLR 3008 & SLR 3007 for power before departing for Richmond on a snowy afternoon.

NYS&W WS-X presumably (Sunday Sparta Job) returns eastbound on the Southern Division at Hawthorne Station. A CSX SD40-3 and NS admiral cab GP38-2 make for an interesting consist, two engines that ... (more)

The CN lashup of the decade??? EJE 672, CN 5356, DMIR 403 are together for the Thunder Bay yard job. The set has since been split into two. When I first heard of this, I thought it was a dream!

B&LE SD40-3 units 901 and 902 pull northbound coal. They had picked up the train that had been left just north of KO Junction earlier.

B&LE EMD units 900, 905 and 906 have left a northbound coal train just beyond KO Junction and now run light back to Greenville. The train had come up the new line from Kremis that bypassed Greenvi... (more)

Early morning sunlight shines on B&LE units 901 and 902 at the Greenville engine terminal. Both of the diesel units are former Southern pacific tunnel motors.