The inbound Searles Turn arrives at the UP interchange in the late evening.

An ex-UP SD40-2 and ex-SP SD40T-2 shove hard on the rear of the Trona's outbound Turn to Searles in the desolate landscape.

CF&E 3316, the railroad’s SD40T-2, takes CHFW across the CN Matteson Sub at Ivanhoe in Gary. The diamond is still guarded by NYC type signals on the IHB and CSX trackage. This is also the locati... (more)

Pulling off the Missabe sub and onto the Fairlane leg heading onto the Cleveland-Cliffs United Taconite property with 114 loads of rock pulled by a BLE duo.

A neat consist pulling limestone empties down the CN Missabe passing Fairlane while on their way back to Proctor.

The former DMIR 409 leads a rail train South through Fayal.

Bessemer & Lake Erie 905 and 862 roll through Girard, Pennsylvania as they head toward the EMSCO Plant to perform some switching and interchange with NS. The train is rolling past the historic Gir... (more)

Staged and ready. BLE 906 waits patiently for the green light from the mine before shoving under the coarse crusher to load.

About a half hour out from Proctor leading L568 (Ranier to Proctor) with a mixed freight, BLE 906 looks good in the low winter light on a clear afternoon.

Just underway down the CN Missabe sub for a quiet and uneventful trip to the yard at Proctor.

The sun has finally broken through the clouds as the Ohio Central's Newark to Columbus turn NKPA crests the hogback at Gale Road in Outville, Ohio. In the lead of today's train is an Ohio Central ... (more)

BLE 906 and DMIR 409 pause and wait for clearance from the mine operations before they shove under the coarse crusher loadout and begin the process of loading.

BLE 909 leads the way back to Proctor with limestone empties while spring snows fall.

As the early morning sun rises, we are pacing alongside former DMIR Tunnel Motor 408 as it cruises northbound on the Missabe Sub towards Zim, Minnesota with a train of ore empties in tow for loadi... (more)

BLE 906 departs out of Fairlane with a T-bird.