The "11:00 AM Munising Switcher" was working the Kimberly-Clark Paper Mill at Munising, MI on June 8, 1983 with RS-3 No. 1604. This piece of railroad, approximately 5 miles long, was isolated fro... (more)

The westbound LS&I "3:00 PM Eagle Mills Yard Job" was passing the huge pellet stockpile for Empire Mine at Palmer, MI on June 6, 1983. The train, powered by three RSD12s, was enroute to Tilden Mi... (more)

The LS&I "3:00 PM Eagle Mills Yard Job" is passing westbound through Eagle Mills Jct., near Negaunee, MI on June 6, 1983 enroute to Tilden Mine.

The LS&I "3:00 PM Eagle Mills Yard Job" had a busy day so far, switching out bad orders at Eagles Mills, running light to Ishpeming and returning with the interchange cars from C&NW. Back at Eagl... (more)

The LS&I "3:00 PM Eagle Mills Yard Job" had just gone on duty and was performing its first job of the day, setting out bad order cars. The red building in the background, above the ore gennies, w... (more)

The LS&I "7:00 AM Eagle Mills Yard Job" was passing westbound at Eagle Mills Jct. near Negaunee MI on May 27, 1982 with three RSD12s and 120 empty gennies.

The LS&I "7:00 AM Eagle Mills Yard Job" had just finished weighing gondola loads of ore concentrate at Eagle Mills, MI on May 27, 1982 with three RSD12s.

In my mind, in the diesel locomotive world at least, the Alco RSD15 pretty much fit the definition of a "beast." It certainly wasn't beautiful and when it got down to business it let everyone wit... (more)

For an Alco lover like me, time spent on the LS&I was like being a kid in a candy store. I will forever the indebted to a fine gentleman named John B. Dorais. Mr. Dorais was the LS&I Manager-Per... (more)

Two GM products meet at Palmer Line Jct. Our ride a GMC Duramax meets a EMD SD60 as the 3 yard heads for the mines with Bentonite Clay in tow. Bentonite clay is used in the process of turning Iron... (more)

A recent transplant from San Berdoo the 9841 soon to be the LS&I 2402 sits outside the LS&I round house. The rest of its career will be on the FRV and GBW and it will be preserved at Union,IL. at ... (more)

The LS&I 7 Tilden Job is approaching Empire Junction and heading to the Tilden Mine.

LS&I U-boats 3052,3053 lead WC train ACLD eastbound with 37 cars of Tilden Mine pellets for the blast furnace at Algoma Steel in Sault Ste. Marie, ONT. The WC was very power short during the winte... (more)

The LS&I was a great place to spend some time back in the 80's. Once you checked in for a pass it was normally ok to wander about taking pictures anywhere that seemed reasonably safe. It wasn't un... (more)

The spring of 1989 was a time of change on the LS&I as ex BN U-boats replaced the Alco's and LS&I's original U23/25C fleet. Here at Eagle Mills a couple ex BN's wait for shop time while already re... (more)