These usually came in on the ore train, dumped, and went back to Eagle Mountain. This one apparently had a failure or was there for some sort of maintenance.
Leap day 1996 found LS&I 3007 idling at Trout Lake. WC had leased a number of LS&I U-boats to get them through their annual winter power shortage and most of them tended to stay in Upper Michigan.
Back in L&N days, four-axle power was the norm for most trains on the south end of the railroad, so this power set (2 U30Cs and an SD40) was a good catch as it passed Bell Street tower on its way ... (more)
The brakeman sprints ahead to line switches to get his coal train out of the yard and on the way to Georgia. Power on this day was pretty typical, a trio of U30Cs and a single SD40.