The Keenan switch job pulling a ballast undercutting and cleaning machine from the small yard at Mountain Iron and bringing it back to Keenan yard.

The Keenan local rounds the bend on the running track with a cut of boxcars the crew will tie down and leave here in storage.

Friday the 13th finds R901 rolling through the fall colors as they head towards Biwabik with boxcars for storage.

After heading out earlier in the day, IC 3110 and 3123 head back to Keenan Yard after switching loads for these empties at a local explosives plant.

The R901 job based out of CN's Keenan yard is retrieving the Plasser & Theurer RM802 High-Production Ballast Undercutting/Cleaning Machine that has been stored since fall when rehabilitation work ... (more)

And then sometimes the train comes into view long hood forward. Oh well. They were pulling five DME hoppers though.

On this day the R901 job based out of CN's Keenan yard was tasked with going up to the Mountain Iron yard and retrieving the Plasser & Theurer RM802 High-Production Ballast Undercutting/Cleaning M... (more)

After completing their work at Quad Graphics Lomira, the 508 turn heads back north and readies for their speedy descent down Byron Hill.

The 508 turn makes its way back down Byron Hill to return to Shops Yard after dropping off its daily load of boxcars to Quad Graphics in Lomira.

Canadian National's Gladstone, MI to Green Bay, WI freight makes its way through a perfect winter landscape in Powers, MI. Snow, followed by rain, more snow, ice, and snow managed to coat nearly e... (more)

Illinois Central 3110 North is pumping air after working "MI'', the old telegraph call letters for Mt. Pulaski, Illinois. The 3110 is on the CNIC's Peoria Local, which operates daily as a turn out... (more)

The Peoria Local pumps air on a frigid Monday night as brakeman and conductor start walking to the head end, in Pekin Illinois on Jan. 21, 2008. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO, LIGHTING BY CRHMF

Illinois Central GP40R 3110 in charge of the Northbound Peoria Local is crossing over the Springfield District at Mt. Pulaski, Illinois on Wednesday Jan 16, 2008. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

Finding IC GP40's on the Gulf Division are a rare treat in 2004.