Usually assigned to work LS&I's isolated branch to Munising, RS-3 1604 is shown here in WC's former Soo Line yard along Lake Superior in Marquette. The Alco was en route home after WC had purchase... (more)

LS&I dock job with U30C 3006 and C30-7 3074 (both ex-BN) pull a cut of empties off the Presque Isle ore dock while Lower Lakes Towing steamer Michipicoten waits to load.

LS&I dock job with U30C 3006 and C30-7 3074 (both ex-BN) shove loads onto the Presque Isle ore dock while Lower Lakes freighter Michipicoten waits to load.

2400,2402,2404 are assigned to the 7AM dock job at West Yard. The LS&I was really friendly to visitors back in the day and all you really needed to do was take the time to get a pass from the gene... (more)

Soo Line 4428 leads the L'Anse Job uphill across a city street in Marquette past an old brick hotel. A GP30 and GP40 trail in the power consist.

Along way from Chicago-LA runs, an ex ATSF F45 now WC 6656 leads SD45's 6523,6512 along the shore of Lake Superior trundling along at 10mph on a 57 car ore load headed first east to Trout Lake, th... (more)

Wreathed in smoke from the units and brake shoes LS&I 2301,2300,2501 make there way down the hill from Eagle Mills to the dock in Marquette on a hot humid July morning. A crew member who had been ... (more)

WC SDL's 588,583 grind up Marquette hill nears the site of LS&I's Pine Hill scale. The SDL's were rated for around 500 tons each on this grade. As soon as the WC was able to purchase the Ex CNW Es... (more)

LS&I 2300,2304,2501 roll 120 loads off the US-41 bridge and down the hill to Marquette. The 2300 was the only U-boat to get the green scheme.

LS&I 2501,2300,2301 lug 120 empties up the hill between Marquette and Eagle Mills near the US-41 bridge.

LS&I 2401,2405,2400,2304 rumble over US-41 with 119 loads heading for the dock. Normal procedure was 3 units on the hill job, but a unit failure on the dock job has 2304 heading down to Marquette ... (more)

A set of ex-BN U30Cs, used for the "Dock Job", lay over in between crews at West Yard. The BN paint held up fairly well a few years into their service on the LS&I.

Three RSD-15's bring a loaded Taconite train into the yard at Marquette with the brake shoes smoking.

Pausing in between taking cuts of ore jennies from the yard to the tipple and into the hold of a laker, one of the sentries of the docks poses for what would be one of the last opportunities to ca... (more)

Don't know what's the main attraction; the U23Cs on the Dock Job still surviving, or the smoke show after every throttle-up placing each ore car over the proper dumper on the dock!