Looking more like Alliance, Nebraska in the late 1970s versus Upper Michigan in 2016, BN green dominates this view of LS&I's engine and car shop. From left to right are leased CEFX 1001/1012 (acti... (more)

There is no mistaking the commodity hauled by the LS&I - taconite (iron ore) pellets.

A pair of Lake Superior & Ishpeming U30C locomotives shove ore jennies on the dock above the Lee A. Tregurtha - originally the USS Chiwawa (AO-68), launched in 1942 as a fleet tanker for World War... (more)

Ore cars await the arrival of the next vessel as the dock job drills cars on the other side and the sun rises.

With the shipping season slowing, LS&I locomotive spend more time sitting at the engine facility than on the road.