Westbound Erie Mining empty ore train approaching Murphy City

Only at a railroad museum could you find a locomotive consist like this in 2015, or any year for that matter. Erie Mining 4211 and GN NW-5 192 sandwich a former Minnesota Power GE center cab while... (more)

A former Erie Mining F9 sits in Joliet Yard. Later it would be coupled to sister unit 4214.

A pair of former Erie Mining F9s sit in the south yard in Joliet.

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)

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)

My first visit to the EMCO plant was on December 30, 1980 and unfortunately our timing was poor as apparently they had stopped running mainline trains for the season as all the F-units were dead a... (more)

An empty ore train exists Cramer Tunnel on its way back to the mine. F9 4213 would be destroyed in a run-away at Taconite Harbor two years later.

Framed by a concrete arch supporting Highway 61 over the frozen Sucker River, Erie Mining 4211 leads a special passenger train to Knife River.

Where Rail Meets Sail! Erie #4211 is no stranger to the shipping industry, having hauled hundreds of thousands of tons of ore to the dock at Taconite Harbor over the years. Now retired, she sits b... (more)

On a stunningly beautiful fall day along the shore of Lake Superior, the next-to-last regular scheduled train for the 2014 season heads back to Duluth Union Depot after hauling a sold out train to... (more)

The "Belzona Bullet" Is ready to take its train back to Duluth.

The A-B-B-B-A set of F's are ready to depart Taconite Harbor.

The yellow flags on the side of the F9s is a nice touch but it is Old Glory that takes center stage as the final LTV Steel Mining Company mainline ore train departs for the dock at Taconite Harbor... (more)