CNJ RDCs 556, 557 on number 2856 at left
Lake Superior & Ishpeming 3004 and 3009 deliver a train of empty cars to the Empire Mine. There's just something surreal about the ore processing facilities here that always makes me feel uneasy.
A line of 18 U33Bs awainting dispostion and the backshops is about all that remains of Rock Island's main engine facility and the important Silvis classification yards. A red RI caboose can be se... (more)
With the shipping season slowing, LS&I locomotive spend more time sitting at the engine facility than on the road.
Work continues to fill the Saginaw with pellets, and the LS&I's dock job heads off the dock to retrieve another cut of cars. The Soo Locks will close in several days, bringing the lake shipping se... (more)
A set of Lake Superior & Ishpeming U Boats shoves a cut of loaded ore cars up onto the Presque Isle Ore Dock. Lower Lakes Towing's Saginaw is taking on taconite for her last trip of the season.
Fresh "BN" paint looks good.
5383 backs out of Johnson Siding to return to the west end of museum trackage for the diesel parade. Taken from the rear platform of the Pullman car "Inglehome."
Freshly repainted BN U30C 5383 waits for the parade of power. The CNW bi-level train in the distance is also waiting for the parade to begin.
Empties from Bethlehem Steel returning to Philadelphia.
Rock U-boats on patrol... This train is eastbound, if you look to the far right you can see Missouri Division Jct., where Rock's KC and Omaha mains split. This train is coming up off the KC line... (more)
BN's bicentennial unit 1776 still looks good as it awaits departure in Missoula, Montana.
