Early in the morning, 215 and 403 are paired up and ready for switch duty. If you ignore the modern cars, and the CN sign on the trailer, it sure looks like this could be from the Missabe era.

Back in 2021, the last 2 Missabe maroon units on the CN were paired together for switching duty in Prcotor yard, seen here late on a cool fall evening, as a stunning sunset ensues.

CN L513 is working southward along the Holly Subdivision in Ferndale.

SU-99 heads west along NJ 23 in Oak Ridge, NJ on a gloomy winter day. The LLPX SD38-2s sounded great under load. You can tell from the exhaust that this consist was working hard while climbing t... (more)

A nice string of unturbocharged power that must have sounded on a coal train.

Burlington Northern local freight 11451 rolls smartly through Highlands, Illinois, powered by a pair of leased former Reserve Mining EMD SD38-2s on a sunny March 15, 1992.

Good luck doing this today... oh wait you cant. Three Shore EMD's roll down the now gone 11th st with manifest.

On a sunny morning in downtown Gary, a South Shore BN coal crawls around town with a trio of CSS power at the helm. Due to the double-track construction project, from here to the power plant, will... (more)

After a setback on the BNs side, a late string of coal loads crawls uphill out of Chicago towards the Cleveland Cliffs power plant in Burns Harbor, Indiana. Todays train has a pair of SD38s sandwi... (more)

After initializing PTC just outside of town, CSS 805 charges into Gary, IN with a long string of NORX coal empties in tow.

With the fate of the NIPSCO power plant uncertain, these NORX coal trains may be a distant memory soon enough. With that said, on a sunny spring afternoon, one of South Shore’s NORX coal empties... (more)

Spring in Chicagoland, after a day of severe weather, the following day opened up 50s & sun, perfect weather for South Shore’s NORX coal empties to traverse the system. Todays train has one of t... (more)

DMIR 215 rests in Virginia while the lead units work the yard.

On Mondays the CN has 2 locals that work out of the yard to industrial leads to work outside customers. Normally on job works the Alter Lead off the Waterloo Sub near Jaxton. This is about a mile ... (more)

Not the most popular model but capable of a great throaty roar, this one is looking really spiffy as they usually did. Photo by Bob Lehman.