A train of 18 empty gondolas gets underway at Landing Jct. in Ishpeming, MI. At the other end of the line this fall Eagle Mine's Humboldt Mill started refining ore mined in Marquette County.

With its expansion to the Humboldt Mill, Mineral Range is becoming one of the more interesting and classic looking shortlines in the upper midwest. Not too many years ago Lake Superior & Ishpeming... (more)

A whitetail doe takes advantage of the train pausing to flag a road crossing by running across the Mineral Range tracks.

Seaboard Coast Line MP15AC #4206, in former Seaboard Air Line Howell Yard. #4206 later became Seaboard System (SBD) #4206 and later CSX #1176

Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad has repainted its former Algoma Central SD40-2, shown moving storage tank cars in preparation of its first service on the Hayward Branch as part of a switching ag... (more)

Brake hose in hand, a crewman rides 101's bottom step as a switch crew heads out to rescue a car from one of the several yards located at various WP-P mills in the Valley.

CNW 923, a former Chicago Great Western SD40 rumbles east along the station platform in Eau Claire, WI with what is most likely train 472. At the time, trains 471 and 472 operated between East Min... (more)

Former MARC 69 has been totally rebuilt from the rail up and painted in a special CSX scheme to match the Geometry Train she will be assigned to. Office car paint was used on the locomotive, wh... (more)

Big Divide and Wyoming SD9 2012 at there yard in Shoshoni.

Wild N' Wonderful West Virginia... Remarkably, only 15 miles from West Virginia's capital city of Charleston, the unique and obscure Winifede Railroad eases toward their small interchange y... (more)

EX B&LE SD18 painted in Kent State University colors

Eastbound PC local crossing EL with double track EL CO GT EJE lines crossing in foreground in Griffith, IN

A loaded coal train departs Seaboard System (former L&N) Ravenna Yard.

The UP 3999 was rebuilt from an SD24 as a prototype for a possible rebuild program by the Union Pacific, making them similar to the SD40s. The rebuild effort included a constant speed EMD 16-645 3... (more)

S&S Shortline Leasing SD10 No. 550 basks in the warm sunshine at Provo Yard on July 8, 2014. The unit was built by EMD as Milwaukee Road SD7 No. 2217 in Oct. 1953. It was later rebuilt and upgrade... (more)