Lake Superior and Ishpeming's two remaining U30Cs lead a train of taconite pellets through Eagle Mills Junction in a pouring rain. The fall colors more than made up for the gloomy weather on this ... (more)

A third shift crew is running from the law as they try to get back to Eagle Mills before 11:00am.

The 7 Tilden crew drags a string of loaded ore jennies by Queens siding in a driving rain.

The 3 Tilden Job drags a train of empty ore jennies through Palmer Junction on their way to the mines.

The LS&I's only remaining pair of serviceable U-boats run through the rock cut at Eagle Mills Junction on their way to pick up loads of pellets at the Tilden Mine.

The familiar chugging sound of 16 cylinder FDLs fills the air as the "Green Machines" head west from Eagle Mills to the Tilden Mine for more iron ore.

A load of empties head back to Tilden mine lead by a pair of well worn C30's. Nikon F3, Kodak Portra 400.

A layer of fog hangs over the woods of the Upper Peninsula with the chug of veteran U30C's filling the air as they climbing up grade to Eagle Mills Junction.

The Upper Peninsula of Michigan has some neat railroad operations for an area that is mostly forest. Pictured through some of the many pine trees that populate the area, a pair of veteran GE C30-7... (more)

A pair of GE C30-7's head back for more iron ore at Tilden as they pass through the rock cut at Eagle Mills Jct.

CNW 8006 leads an ore train on LS&I tracks at Eagle Mills Jct. in July of 1990.

CNW 6890 brings the first cut of steaming taconite pellets to Empire Junction in Negaunee, MI in October of 1988. The ore came from the Empire Mine, which has recently closed.

Alco RSD-12 #1852 brings a cut of ore cars thru the rock cut at Eagle Mills Jct. in May of 1986.

With a pair of C30-7's already out at the mine, we were taken off guard by another train running out to Tilden. While it was not the boats we were after, a pair of blue birds run through the cut a... (more)

With Empire mine shut down, and only ore reserves on the ground available for loading, CN ore trains will soon be ending. Granted the ore traffic from neighboring Tilden mine will still run and on... (more)