From my slide collection by an unknown photographer.

Three Lake Superior and Ishpeming RSD-15's (ex Santa Fe) wait quietly for a crew to come on duty and fire them up for the next ore train. Ektachrome 64.

The two LS&I U25C's arrived in this rather striking scheme(at least compared to the solid chocolate scheme)and for the most part they worked as a team early on in there careers. Here is 2500 leadi... (more)

By 2008 most of the remaining U-boats still roaming the LS&I had began to look pretty tired. This shot of 3008 leading a similarly faded sister with 60 loads on the 7 yard at Empire Junction typif... (more)

LS&I had a fair amount of RS-3's to start with, but over the years they were replaced with more sure footed RSD12's,RSD15's,U25C's and U23C's. Finally by the mid 70's most all the RS3's were gone... (more)

It often seemed if you took a girlfriend along with you on trips to the LS&I you could get some terrific smoke shows...maybe those guys had been riding around in the woods a little to long with no... (more)

With 60 loads the 3PM Tilden job is making its way back to the Eagle Mills yard on its first trip of the day. 2304, 1853, 2300 are barking right along as they pass Eagle Mills Junction on a cloudy... (more)

The LS&I 3PM yard job works its way into the joint LS&I/CNW/Soo Line yard at Ishpeming with 15 cars of general freight/mine supplies. Gators 2400,2405, and 2401 darken the sky in fine Alco traditi... (more)

While this slide was taken in June, this is snow country. Note the snowplow on top of the pilot! From my slide collection by DAVID HAMLEY.

While this slide was taken in June, this is snow country. Note the snowplow on top of the pilot! From my slide collection by DAVID HAMLEY.

LS&I U25C 2501 is seen on lease to the DT&I. With the close of the shipping season on the Great Lakes the LS&I would lease out what ever units it could. From my slide collection by KEN BORG.

On Sept. 10, 1986, the weather just would not improve. When we got up that morning we were greeted with fog and light drizzle. Faced with a day of shooting in the funk, we asked and received per... (more)

A westbound "Hill Job" has just weighed its train of empty ore jennies and is accelerating away from the scales as it crosses Morgan Creek Trestle, just east of Eagle Mills, MI, on Sept. 8, 1986.

An eastbound LS&I "Hill Job" is undergoing its brake test at Eagle Mills, MI on Sept. 8, 1986 and will soon be headed downgrade to the ore dock with another train of taconite pellets.

The WC often turned to the LS&I for a few spare U-boats in the mid-90's during the winter months to help with heavy traffic. LS&I 3052, WC 6621 and WC 1504 head east with 114 cars on train 35.