With CP receiving its new remanufactured geeps I dug out this shot of EMD's last attempt at a 4-axle rebuild program. You can see the family resemblance but it is safe to say the CP model is uniqu... (more)

January 17 marks the anniversary of Operation Desert Storm in 1991. This image shows the patriotic SD60M BN painted for the occasion rolling back to Montana with coal empties from Superior, Wiscon... (more)

A former GN snow dozer clears the flanges on the mainline into BNSF's Allouez ore yard in 2005.

Tucked between pumpkins, two green and black 4 axles - GP39M, in GP30 shell and GP28M.

When NSM received three SD40-3s from Livingston Rebuild Center they traded in a number of older units, including SD18 1228. When the mining railroad experienced a need for extra power LRC loaned t... (more)

With the smell of fresh cut pine in the air, new (Oct) SP GEs lead a loaded all-rail ore train from Minnesota to Geneva Steel in Utah.

The Missabe's Steelton Switch transfer job holds for a BN coal train at the Soo's M&J Tower. The old structure wouldn't last long after this shot as the diamonds were removed and a new connecting ... (more)

A BNSF locomotive crane has a nice little train in tow as it heads back to the barn after a day of work in eastern Superior. Not something you see everyday.

BN 6107 switches the car ferry Incan Superior on a nice spring day. The ferry operated on Lake Superior between Thunder Bay, Ontario and Superior, Wisconsin usually hauling boxcars of newsprint bu... (more)

Shades of blue. A CN transfer behind a former BC Rail GE departs CP's Stinson Yard while CP's train 482 is made up for its early evening run to St. Paul.

Action at Saunders Tower—3
The C&NW train's caboose slips by as the DW&P train waits for its signal and the BN ore train continues rolling toward Allouez. Saunders Tower stands in the... (more)

Action at Saunders Tower—2
As the C&NW train is going by, a Burlington Northern ore train powered by three SD45s, and destined for the docks at Allouez, passes over the DW&P train.

Action at Saunders Tower—1
Upon a morning arrival to Saunders Tower just south of Superior, Wisconsin, a Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific transfer freight waits for a southbound Chicago a... (more)

A Chicago and North Western freight with three EMD SD40-2s pulls up to the signals at Saunders, Wisconsin, on the morning of October 20, 1985. Soon after, a Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range transfer... (more)

BNSF 5910 BNSF 8840 BNSF 8904 lead Birmingham empties back to Superior before being handed off to CN and heading up to the Iron Range for reload.