After dumping limestone at Minntac, a trio of BLE's come down from the plant with their train in tow.

Repainted BLE tunnel motor 902 leads the Lakefront local East through East Chicago.

Repainted BLE tunnel motor 902 departs the Port of Chicago with CN L512.

A trio of BLE tunnel motors lead stone loads north into the setting sun.

About a half hour after the sun set for the day, DMIR 400 is pulling up and out from the plant with its train of steaming marbles in tow while CN 2107 rounds the bend after dumping its train of ta... (more)

The crew of Lancaster and Chester Train 12 has run aruond their train on the Circle S Feed Miill spur after working the Owens-Hamilton facility to the right of this frame. They are returning to do... (more)

DMIR 403 leads the CN triple set and a drag of grain empties back to Port Arthur Yard from the elevators in Current River; the eastern end of the Thunder Bay Terminal.

The visual cues in the photograph provide no clue that this is a Union Pacific train. In January 1997, a flood detour heads south on the Modoc Line, beginning the climb out of the Madeline Plains.... (more)

A Southern Pacific tunnel motor rests in the late afternoon sun at Mojave.

As the sun sets on the Missabe and paints the sky brilliant shades of pink and purple, Bessemer & Lake Erie tunnel motor 906 leads the U716 with ore empties as it takes the diverging route at Sout... (more)

It's a busy evening at the west end of CN's yard in Proctor, Minnesota as the E-Lead yard job shoves a cut of cars down the yard lead while three sets of empty ore trains wait to depart north back... (more)

Aside from the loaded ballast cars on the head end, this westbound train on the Modoc Line is virtually all empty boxcars and flatcars returning to Oregon for another load of forest products. This... (more)

An eastbound lumber drag on the Modoc Line is about to make a 180 degree change in direction at Indian Camp Loop. This train is around five miles into the climb from Likely to Sage Hen.

This odd structure once stood at Sage Hen on the Modoc Line. Not long after Rio Grande Industries acquired Southern Pacific in fall 1988, an eastbound passes the shack.

Blizzard conditions were forecast. Nailed it. DMIR 406 leads an empty pellet train north along the Missabe sub encountering some blowing and drifting snow along the way.