The LS&I 7 Tilden heading north at Empire Junction.

Lake Superior & Ishpeming’s 7 Tilden Job splits off from the CN at Palmer Line Junction and heads towards the Tilden mine with two U30Cs.

The LS&I 7 Tilden shoving some ore cars into eagle mills yard.

The Powder River coal boom resulted in many cooperative arrangements between companies that were more typically competitors, as illustrated by this scene of BN and C&NW power being combined at the... (more)

This is an absolutely typical power set for L&N unit coal trains in the 1970s, with three U30Cs and an SD40-2. The EMD would outlast the C-boats, but 1549 - renumbered 7243 - did make it into Sea... (more)

Spending a couple hours on a windy bridge in frigid temperatures was a small price to pay to see two faded old coal warriors leading a train of intermodal and auto racks.

CNW 936 was the final U30C purchased by C&NW. Here it moves west near Eau Claire tower where it will divert to the main track to Spooner and Superior with a Twin Ports bound freight. The GEs spent... (more)

CNW 932 was one of seven U30Cs acquired by C&NW in between multiple orders of SD45s in early 1968. This I believe was the only one painted in the scheme shown. This variation was tried from the la... (more)

LSI 3002 sets out a cut of ore jimmies at Partridge Siding in July of 1990. The CNW would pick up the cars for the trip to Escanaba. The U-Boats had recently replaced the Alco's on the LS&I, and a... (more)

A pair of former BN U30C's roll out of the LS&I yard at Eagle Mills, Michigan with the morning's 7 Weigher job in tow to bring empties down for loading. With bridge and road work on Route 35, ther... (more)

LS&I 3000 Leads a two unit Iron Ore train out of the Tilden Mine in Michigans Upper Pennisula

On a spring day, two U30Cs and a Century 628 are on the point of a southbound Delaware & Hudson freight rolling through East Worcester, NY, bound for either Binghamton or Wilkes-Barre.

After completing the process of loading and weighing a train of hoppers with taconite pellets, the LS&I's 7 Weigher Job comes around the south leg of the wye at Empire Junction with a pair of form... (more)

After completing the process of loading a weighing a train a hoppers with taconite pellets, the LS&I's 7 Weigher Job comes around the south leg of the wye at Empire Junction with a pair of former ... (more)

With a matching pair of former Burlington Northern GE U30C's on the point, the Lake Superior & Ishpeming's 7 Weigher rolls through the rock cut at Eagle Mills Junction, Michigan with a train of em... (more)