Chicago and Northwestern AS616M 1561 at Iron Mountain, MI June 1972. The 1561 was built in January 1952 and rebuilt by EMD in 1962 with a 567C prime mover and EMD long hood. The 1561 was retired i... (more)

DMIR 156 leads an E&LS freight past the ex-Milwaukee Road depot in Iron Mountain, MI in June of 1987.

Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad RS12 leads a company passenger special Northward past the former Milwaukee Road Depot at Iron Mountain, Michigan. Thanks to Fred Pajak (real retired firefighter)... (more)

CNW 4257 greets a bright morning sun at Iron Mountain coupled to a ancient flat car with what appeared to be a wheel less travel trailer. Surely it was in company service of some kind maybe for a ... (more)

The E&LS SD9 duo continues north along Rte 607 as the fog begins to lift. They will soon stop at Randville for a pickup and again at Sagola before arriving at Channing with a rather long train.

The ex-Reserve Mining SD9s #1221 & 1224 head north along Hwy 95 just north of Iron Mountain, MI as the fog begins to lift.

Northbound E&LS train to Channing breaks through the thick fog with the ex-Reserve Mining SD9s #1221 & 1224.

Northbound E&LS train to Channing heads through the northwoods of the Upper Peninsula with a pair of ex-Reserve Mining high hood SD9s.

One of my Uncle Ron's slides.

The southbound Copper Country Limited is at the Iron Mountain (MI) station. Taken with available light on Kodachrome II film with an old Kodak Rangefinder camera.

A couple of tired Milwaukee warriors rest near Iron Mountain. The 108A and 114B were assigned to service in the area. The plywood port holes and rusted out side panels show the work and abuse thes... (more)

A trio of "Baby Trainmasters" [1683-1698-1904; all with different builder dates] are easily handling the task of getting a loaded ore train out of Iron Mountain. The fireman or head brakeman is gi... (more)

A perfect A-B-B-A set of F7s drag a train of Groveland Mine taconite into Iron Mountain for interchange with the C&NW and forwarding to Escanaba. 109A, 70B, 89B and 70C are captioned nicely by th... (more)

Milw. 70C,70B,63A rest in Iron Mountain while the crew talks over a track issue with the section foreman. They no doubt had a lot to talk about as deferred maintenance was becoming an issue on mos... (more)

I never spent much time getting Milwaukee units in Upper Michigan, at least not until the Soo bought them. But I did manage to drag myself past the Alcos of the LS&I and CNW a couple of times. On ... (more)