The Rio Grande Zephyr

The Blue Ribbon Special heads around the curve in Chula as they head south for Jacksonville, FL.

Hanging out a Dutch Door on the Rio Grande Zephyr.

Streamliners at Spencer

Streamliners at Spencer

Two units from the Lake Superior Railroad Museum hold in the clear while a Union Pacific transfer shoves into BNSF's Rices Point yard. The two locomotives will handle an empty coal train for stora... (more)

With an air temp at -4F Erie Mining F9A 4211 leads DM&IR 193 and a train of empty BNSF steel hopper cars out of Rices Point. Who would have thought 4211 (or 193) would be powering an ore train, al... (more)

Show Ponies in the Snow: After a day trek across Ohio, the sun sets on an early winter's day as a deadheading OCS train slides through the ice lined walls of the Highland Cut.

A toe-numbing morning along the Lurgan Branch in the early hours of the morning on December 21, 2014 started my chase of the NS 956 with the OCS returning from South Carolina. As the sun began to ... (more)

Born in 1956, destroyed in 2014. Parts and some unidentifiable pieces that once belonged to either Erie Mining F9(B) units 4223, 4224 or 4225 lay strewn about behind Erie Mining F9(A) 4210 as a co... (more)

One of the once mighty Erie Mining/ LTV Steel EMD built F9(A) units, EMCO 4214 sits in the weeds in a small three track yard on Cliffs Erie property waiting to be moved off property due to being s... (more)

Born in 1956, destroyed in 2014. The biggest pieces that remain of Erie Mining F9(B) units 4223, 4224 and 4225 are their fuel tanks. Erie Mining F9(A) 4210 however has a new lease on life after be... (more)

The 0700 job returns with empties near the isolated set-out track named Reserve (named for its close proximity to the Reserve Mining mainline). F9A 4214 has been sold and is headed to a new owner.... (more)

One of two remaining F9(A) units waits to be moved off property due to a recent sale. The parts behind the 4210 are parts and pieces from the F9(B) 4223, 4224, 4225 that were recently scrapped.

One of the two remaining Erie Mining Co. F units still on the old Erie Mining Co. ( later LTV Steel and now Cliffs Erie ) property stares at the remains of her sister F9(B) units 4224, 4223, and 4... (more)