Location please! CNW's dumper job works the ore yard on a beautiful evening in May of 1986. Only 2 units were needed for this job instead of the usual 3 units on the trains to the mines.
CNW 6703 crosses the Escanaba River and the E&LS on an ancient bridge near its final destination of Escanaba. The bridge was once a scenic highlight of this line but has been recently replaced. An... (more)
C&NW 6703 brings a loaded ore train into the receiving yard in Escanaba. These units really looked good in ore service.
D&H Sharks 1205 and 1216 sit outside near the CNW engine facilities in Escanaba. Soon, they will be moved indoors to protect them, but at a price of rarely being seen.
D&H 1216 hides beside the ex-P&H crane facility in Escanaba. This unit ran only a few times for the E&LS before being parked, outside at first, but inside and out of sight since.
3 hi-hood Alco's bring a loaded ore train into the C&NW yard in Escanaba on a beautiful August day in 1984.
CNW 6703 leads a loaded ore train into the yard at Escanaba while an empty train waits to depart for Empire Mine.
Sets of CNW and MILW FM power are ready for duty hauling iron ore.
These steam engine tenders were used to provide boiler water for iron ore thawing service during the winter.
Nearly 30 years after E&LS bought five SD9s from bankrupt Minnesota iron ore mining firm Reserve Mining, the units still wear their brown and cream Reserve scheme. Now stored due to more powerful ... (more)
ELS #400 sits stripped and forgotten on the sight of the former Harnischfeger crane plant. Hasselblad 500C/M, Velvia 50.
Escanaba's Newpage Mill provides a backdrop for CN's morning Gladstone to Green Bay freight.
Under a nearly full moon a standard cab dash 8 and its caboose containing remote control equipment take a brake from pushing cars up to the ore dumper in Escanaba MI
Two different generations of EMD's rest near the sanding tower at the end of the ore yard in Escanaba.
Serviced and ready to go CNW 6721,6715 and 6710 await a crew at the new CNW engine facility in Escanaba.
