A load heads back north out of the mine with the U boat pair for power.

Frigid winter air measures in the single digits and the fallen snow that covers the wilderness floor nearly doubles and triples that number in inches. Distant chugs bounce off the rocky hills, ech... (more)

7 Tilden heads to Eagle Mills Yard in harsh conditions. The wind was brutal on this day, and trudging through 3 feet of snow was challenging. A couple hours later, we finally hear the U boat chug,... (more)

The LS&I 7 Tilden heading south at Eagle Mills Junction.

The LS&I 7 Tilden heading south at Eagle Mills Junction.

Lake Superior & Ishpeming’s 7 Tilden Job splits off from the CN at Palmer Line Junction and heads towards the Tilden mine with two U30Cs.

A pair of former BN U30C's roll out of the LS&I yard at Eagle Mills, Michigan with the morning's 7 Weigher job in tow to bring empties down for loading. With bridge and road work on Route 35, ther... (more)

LS&I 3000 Leads a two unit Iron Ore train out of the Tilden Mine in Michigans Upper Pennisula

With a matching pair of former Burlington Northern GE U30C's on the point, the Lake Superior & Ishpeming's 7 Weigher rolls through the rock cut at Eagle Mills Junction, Michigan with a train of em... (more)

By the time the mine run crew returned from Tilden Mine with loaded ore jennies for the LS&I ore dock, sun had turned to rain at Palmer Junction where CN joins LS&I with trackage rights to Ishpemi... (more)

A Lake Superior & Ishpeming ore run rolls a string of loads through Palmer Jct. as it heads from Tilden Mine back to Eagle Mills Yard. Later the cars will be handled down the grade to the ore dock... (more)

LS&I U30Cs nos. 3000 and 3009 work a morning mine run returning from Tilden Mine to Eagle Mills, where another crew with CEFX power will take the train down to the Presque Isle ore dock. The forme... (more)

LS&I U30C nos. 3000 and 3009 pull a trainload of ore headed for their dock out of Tilden Mine at Empire Jct. between Palmer and Eagle Mills, MI. No. 3000 was built in April 1974 as BN 5931, and li... (more)

The morning crew returns to Eagle Mills with its loaded ore train completing its round trip to Tilden Mine. Later a dock job will deliver the cars to the dock near Marquette, MI.

A pair of LS&I's veteran GE's are seen entering the wye at Empire junction making there way up to the mine. With the Cascade Green quickly being phased out it was a welcomed sight and sound.