Kind of a rare visitor to the CNW ore line was this job, both in power and car type. During the spring of 94 a couple train loads of ore were all-railed in these Ex PRR ore cars. Power ran through... (more)

A very clean CNW GE awaits assignment at Escanaba.

CNW 6719, 6717, 6701 rest at Little Lake with a loaded ore train while the crew is off getting lunch. Just as lunch is about over an empty job also powered by three C628's will show up and roll th... (more)

The CNW/WC/DMIR teamed up to move quite a few train loads of Minorca ore to the Escanaba Ore Dock in the fall of 1990. The Michigan Mines had been on strike that Summer/Fall and this move was made... (more)

After the retirement of the Alco fleet the CNW tried many combination's of units on the various jobs in the Escanaba area. The Dumper job which had been home to either a pair of C628's or a C628 w... (more)

CNW 6721,6712,6724 have the Groveland Empties in tow as they work RR east but compass west near Bark River. CNW crews called this job the Antoine turn. It normally had a 11AM call time at Escanaba... (more)

CNW 4174 along with an SD40-2 B-unit and leased LS&I 3008 are assigned to the dumper job at Escanaba. The 4174 is looking good in a fresh coat of CNW green and yellow but doesn't have much of a fu... (more)

Alco's here, there, and everywhere! C628's 6730,6715,6707 roll loads east, while 6708,6709,6710 cool there heels in the siding at Brampton. After CNW removed the siding at Maple Ridge(just north o... (more)

CNW 8552 rolls ore loads east at Rock. A Locotrol equipped C40 is pushing on the rear. This was quite a change from operations of a few years earlier when these jobs were powered by trios of C628'... (more)

C628's 6712,6703,6713 are Escanaba bound a couple miles south of Brampton. Winter weather in Upper Michigan tends to alternate between clear cold days and slightly warmer snowy weather.

A clean CNW ex CR SD45 rests outside of the last CNW engine facility in Escanaba. When a large crane manufacturing company closed a plant in Escanaba the CNW bought a building at the former plant ... (more)

CNW occasionally was able to score some all-rail ore off the Marquette Range. The summer of 1991 was one of those times and this westbound nearing Little Lake has 137 empty coal hoppers trailing t... (more)

Kind of like now days for awhile in the late 70's it seemed everyone was getting into the locomotive leasing business. An outfit named Chrome Crankshaft bought a number of Ex SP RS32's and repaint... (more)

November is deer season in Upper Michigan, with both bow hunting and rifle season taking up most of the month. Whats that have to do with railroading you may ask? Things are surely different now b... (more)

After waiting out a meet with a eastbound ore load and taking a lunch break at the Little Lake VFW this westbound empty has tied back onto their train and with one of the few Zito yellow C628's on... (more)