Coal loads for MERC round the curve into the setting sun about 15 miles from their destination.
WOAH! COMING AT YA! While all the other railfans were settling for posed shots, I went for the "off-the beaten path" shots, so to speak. No one else was around as the Hustle Muscle came blasting o... (more)
While all the other railfan were settling for posed shots, I did the exact opposite and went for the off the beaten path shot, so to speak. I was the only one here when the DSS&A #101 crept throug... (more)
While all the other railfan were settling for posed shots, I did the exact opposite and went for the off the beaten path shot, so to speak. RP contributor Dan Mackey throttles up to deliver railfa... (more)
Its 1985 and the former GN power, which just got a nice repaint, runs around its coal train. In reality this is the Hustle Muscle on the North Shore Scenic Railroad, but we can dream right?
We don't got no stinking GE's! Rarish GP50 lays over as the power for the Brainerd or Grand Rapids local.
With 30 min left before they die, the 0730 Road Switch drags bentonite cars up Proctor Hill while the 1430 PRS switches the dock to the right track. UPDATE: The IC #6262 was destroyed in a head on... (more)
In a very rare move, the GN SD45 "Hustle Muscle", the first production SD45 leads a NRHS Special to Grand Rapids, MN.
Atfer being delivered a few days ago, two of the most continuously in service F9's in the world rest in a thunder storm.
With the brake shoes smoking, the Extra Road Switch heads down Proctor Hill at dusk.
CN GE'z lug oil cans bound for Canada as they crest Steelton Hill just south of Duluth.
If not for that BNSF on the side, the engine facility could be all BN, as two rarish GP28M's look on.
An odd train consisting of various former Frisco and Clinchfield cars now owned by HLMX heads west.
"Dashing through the snow.." That MN for you on March 20! The Lake Superior Railroad Museums SD18 and GP30 pull about 60 empty coal cars in a VERY rare move, to my knowledge this is only the secon... (more)
Symmetry in motion.
