A Cyprus Northshore ore train works upgrade away from Lake Superior at Silver Bay, Minnesota, along an empty County Highway 3 on September 20, 1991. The train is powered by a pair of rare EMD SD28... (more)
One of Reserve Mining's rare SD28s leads four side dump cars and the mining railroad's private car towards the interchange with the DM&IR at Norshor Junction. The parlor car had been sold to the E... (more)
A pair of EMDs still in their former Reserve Mining brown and cream paint scheme sandwich a freshly repainted SD9 (1225 - the last SD9 built) as they roll back to Silver Bay with an empty tailings... (more)
Three rare ex-Reserve Mining SD28s (1234, 1236, 1235) and former NSM SD18 1228 (leased back from LRC) head out of Silver Bay with empties for Babbitt the day after Christmas 2000.
Columbus & Greenville SD28 #702 working at Greenwood, MS in May 1972.
One of the most rare EMD models produced, C&G 701 was one of two built for the C&G and became ICG then IC 9450.
An SD28 leads a train of rock tailings up the hill away from Lake Superior to an inland dump site on the North Shore Mining Company Railroad. The paint on this unit is original to first owner, Res... (more)
An SD28 along with a pair of SD18's grind up the hill from Silver Bay with tailings loads. The train is headed for the tailings basin at milepost #7.
A lucky catch! As a ballast train approaches, an empty Northshore Mining empty train heads into the photo - getting two trains at the same time on this railroad is pretty difficult!
One of three rare SD28s on NSM heads back to Babbitt after using locomotive air to clean switches at Norshor Junction. Sister 1235 is undergoing a complete rebuild at NRE.
A rare SD28 and 2 SD18's from the Northshore Mining railroad work hard to pull a long iron ore tailings train uphill to the dumping site around MP12.
On SSW/MP joint line. Valmeyer was one of the towns destroyed by the 1993 Mississippi River flooding. ICG 9451 is an ex-Columbus and Greenville SD28, one of only six built. K64, Minolta SRT-101... (more)
