DM&IR SD9 168, the only original Missabe unit in this set, does its part to help lift ore empties up from the ore dock in Duluth to the yard at Proctor. The old veteran would be off the roster the... (more)

Engineer Mike Kohl and Conductor Kyle Sanders bring a trio of Reading & Northern EMDs led by SD38 #2000 and the southbound Reading Turn under the ex-PRR Schuylkill Valley Branch (now a bike path) ... (more)

Fresh out of the R&N's Port Clinton shop and sporting a new coat of paint, SD38 2003 is seen here working the Tamaqua - Jim Thorpe local as it goes about spotting tank cars at Air Products near Ho... (more)

Reading & Northern SD38 #2000 sports its fresh paint job as it leads a Jim Thorpe to Hometown (High Bridge) fall foliage excursion through Nesquehoning, PA on the former Central of New Jersey Nesq... (more)

One probably wouldn't expect to see a pair of McCloud River Railroad SD38s dragging a long freight train in Utah. The power short Union Pacific leased two of these EMDs from McCloud between 1988 a... (more)

Reading & Northern SD38 #2003, fresh from shop work and sporting a new coat of paint, leads a Jim Thorpe to Hometown High Bridge fall foliage excursion seen here about to pass under the Lincoln Dr... (more)

The last raw ore train to load at Evtac's Thunderbird North mine before the operation closed. Fortunately it would reopen at the end of 2003 under new ownership and continues to be a big shipper f... (more)

I've infitrated deep into James Belmont territory, but lying low to avoid detection to photograph Union Pacific's northbound Salt Lake City-Provo local returning through the Jordan River Narrows w... (more)

Leased to Union Pacific, which designated them as "UPL" 37 and 37, two McCloud River SD38s in their ever-attractive brown paint scheme lug the steel-heavy Provo Turn northbound through the Jordan ... (more)

In the mid-1990s the big U.S. Steel roads swapped a number of units with the Missabe getting SD38s from the B&LE and EJ&E and those roads receiving older DM&IR SD-Ms and SD18/SD9s. The "new" DM&IR... (more)

A pair of McCloud River Railroad SD38s haul a long train of forest products at the foot of Mt. Shasta. Huh? Not at all! A power short Union Pacific leased McCloud River SD38s #36-37 in 1988, and a... (more)

Freshly painted Reading & Northern SD38 #2003 leads a Jim Thorpe - High Bridge fall foliage excursion through downtown Nesquehoning, PA. The train is passing by the world headquarters of the KME K... (more)

When I think DM&IR this is what normally comes to mind, clean units, non turbo EMD's, and good rail. The Steelton job has just begin the assault on Steelton Hill with 208,175,313,189 and 193.

Four Missabe units begin the assult on Steelton Hill at sunset with a train of empty ore cars. This train was a joint ore move between WC (note the ex-C&NW ore cars) and the DM&IR from the Minorca... (more)

HKGX 2002 and 2005 are seen here in Birdsboro,PA on a snowy afternoon backing in a cut of empty stone hoppers to their quarry located 3 miles south east of this location.