NS 955, with the Norfolk Southern OCS Passenger Train (4271), glides through Atwater Ohio on a sunny afternoon.

On a rainy morning in Spanish Fork Canyon, the clouds parted in time to illuminate the Rio Grande Zephyr train #18 climbing east through Detour on May 15, 1977.

Awaiting scrapping. Little oopsie in Sumas.

The Rio Grande Zephyr train #17 arrives at Provo just before sunset on June 4, 1977.

On Seven Seven Seventy-Seven (July 7, 1977), Rio Grande Zephyr train #17 emerges from shadowy Spanish Fork Canyon into golden evening sunlight at Gomex. When on time, train #17 arrived at this loc... (more)

Executive F-units lead the holiday train through a nice signal bridge on a crisp December day in 1995.

An empty train sits in the LTV Steel Mining yard with the working pellet plant in the background.

In late 1998 LTV Steel Mining Company began running longer 125-car ore trains and to handle such tonnage they assembled 6-unit locomotive sets (previously 4-5 units sets were the norm on 96-car tr... (more)

Going out in style. The final LTV Steel Mining Company revenue ore train departs the mine for Taconite Harbor in 2001. The lead F9, still lettered for Erie Mining Company, flys a large American fl... (more)

Eastbound CW local departs from Creston, Washington, in the twilight of F-unit operations in the Pacific Northwest. Three F9A's, an ex-SP&S F3A, a single F9B and two geeps make up the first-genera... (more)

From the top of the ridge that made Cramer Tunnel necessary is a view of changing autumn colors of Minnesota’s northwoods and an eastbound LTV Mining Company ore train curving toward bore. The thr... (more)

NS OCS coming off the wye that connects the Piedmont Div to the Atlanta South District on its way to Jacksonville on a deadhead move.

The last revenue ore train to be operated by LTV Steel Mining Company eases out of the plant area for its run to Taconite Harbor. This train consisted of taconite pellet chips and fines reclaimed ... (more)

F9 in motion: LTV Mining (former Erie Mining Company) F9A No 4212 leads an empty ore train west through Cramer, Minnesota, in a panned photo on September 24, 1994.