The old 5005, which is widely used for pulling heavy ore trains in the 70 and 80, now suffers with age, often getting touches in places that facilitate the action of vandals, leaving her with an u... (more)

Paying respect to my old friends from the Missabe. There are ten DMIR locomotives at the right side of this line. I confirmed 306,208,221,217,317. Also nine GP15s make up the left line.

NIWX 1228 sits here idling, waiting amongst the cornfields for the next UP grain train to come to the silo.

Pretending to be a Alco, by pouring out the smoke. CNW SD18's 6636,6647 work the Dumper Job at Wells. The two units were originally SD24's but were rebuilt to SD18 status by CNW.

This young man has probably done more switching this past year than any other person at the Depot. It certainly shows. Here he is shown leading the #193 to her inspection.

C&IM SD18s 60 and 61, SD9 54 and SD38-2 71 drag the first half of a northbound hopper train up Petersburg Hill. The green power and forty-five loads are seen from the GM&O "Jax" Line overhead bri... (more)

The Shops Roadswitcher easily rolls downgrade North of Hilltop, once a helper district for the Chicago & Illinois Midland Railroad. Today the seven cars pushing on the drawbar of SD18 60 are no is... (more)

CNW 6636 rests at the Escanaba ore yard between shifts on the dumper job. the 6636 was an SD24 that CNW rebuilt into an SD18.

The second of many coal empties makes its way off the North Shore Scenic Railroad's line along the north shore of Lake Superior (visible in the background). The coal cars are reentering service af... (more)

Three high-nose Missabe SD18s, 191, 175 and 190, grind up Proctor Hill at the I-35 underpass with empty ore jennies bound for mines on the iron range.

DMIR SD18 #185 at Iron Junction, MN, June 1988.

I&M 60 and 61 await their next work in Taylorville, IL in this 2001 scene.

WSOR SD18 #6641 began life as a Southern Railway SD24 and later was downgraded by the CNW and chop nosed by the WSOR. It is seen in this 2001 view working at Janesville with sister 6622.