Nucor Steel mill switchers NREX 3520 and NUCX 2307 are busy working on a Sunday morning.

CN 2000 splits the signals at Fairbanks, Minnesota on its way to the ore dock at Two Harbors with a load of hot, steaming Taconite pellets. The pellets originated as raw ore at the Minntac Mine be... (more)

In a scene reminiscent of the once mighty Pittsburgh steel industry, J&L #58 maneuvers into position beside hot metal car #822 for a night photo shoot. Built in Pittsburgh in 1937 by the HK Porte... (more)

RLCX SW900 #905 inside the CMC Steel Mill in October, 2008. Shot from public property.

Business As Usual For The Coke Express At Blast Furnace #4. Yet another train of loaded coke is shoved into Blast Furnace #4 on a nice, fall morning. A pair of Gary Railway "Top Banana" SW1... (more)

Working The Old USX Yard. A US Steel SW1500, currently assigned to the Gary Works mill, is seen working cars at the old USX Yard on a sunny morning. Trailing is one of the former EJ&E SW's ... (more)

A pair of United States Steel switchers are seen working the Great Lakes Steel plant on the south side of Detroit.

A 1948-built Baldwin switcher sits on display outside Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark. This engine started out as a switcher for the Sloss Furnaces before being sold to U.S Pipe & Foundr... (more)

Amtrak "SW1000R" 792, seen in the carrier's Ivy City facility, was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Montour SW9 73 in May 1952. This SW9 was later sold to Youngstown &... (more)

A trio of Union Railroad MP15DC's roll underneath the signal bridge in Duquesne, Pennsylvania after crossing the Monongahela River with a morning train of loaded steel slabs. This train of slabs f... (more)

CSX local job Y133 pulls a string of hopper cars as they work the yard outside of the General Mills plant in Buffalo, New York. This area along the Buffalo River is home to numerous grain elevator... (more)

A pair of Cleveland Works Railroad SW1500's pull a train of loaded slab cars out of the eastern yard at the Cleveland Cliffs Cleveland Works steel mill in Cleveland, Ohio. This intra-plant switchi... (more)

Mine run R618 drags train C23721, with 100 loads of coking coal, towards Alice Yard. The availability of high quality metallurgical coal is one reason steel mills like Sloss Furnace, in the backg... (more)

The sunrise glints off the ribbons of steel as a BNSF ACe pulls an empty coal into the yard at Pueblo, Colorado.

Found on a siding loaded with what appears to be a high/wide load in Asea Brown Boveri depressed-center flat car ABWX 20002. This car was built National Steel Car in February 1981. (Huntsville, ... (more)