This old brute has turned it's last wheel but still sits like an old warrior ready for the next battle.
The Tilden job and the Hill job both are at East Eagle Mills; the Tilden has just returned from Tilden mine with loads, while the Hill job pumps air for the descent into Marquette to drop their tr... (more)
This consist is the second engine consist of this train. The first was the 2501 (last operating U25C) and 2 U23Cs; they had mechanical problems and cut off at the scanner (only operating AEI scan... (more)
Loaded with iron ore, a mine job puts a cut of cars in the yard.
A 7 Scale Test claws it's way up Pine Hill past the scale.
The 7 Tilden gets ready for another day of shuttling between the yard and the mine in God's Country.
The 3 Tilden leaves the yard at Eagle Mills on it's second mine run of the shift.
In 1991 2501 was the the last U25C in service on the LS&I with 2500 preserved in Marquette MI.
LSI 3074 leads a sister through the tundra around Eagle Mills Junction with a whopping two car train of mining chemicals. The power lines in the background carry the high voltage required for mini... (more)
This view from the yard office shows the switch crew at work on the right. At the upper left is a set of locomotives on the ready track outside the diesel shop. The locomotives at top center are i... (more)
A crew prepares to switch out two hopper cars to bring to the Tilden Mine from the string on the left. Photo taken from the LS&I yard office.
With the shipping season slowing, LS&I locomotive spend more time sitting at the engine facility than on the road.
Short Soo line freught ascends grade near Eagle Mills Processing plant.
LS&I job through the signals