BLE U70261 loaded southbound ore crosses the Allegheny River with BLE 867 SD38 leading another SD38 and a SD40T-2.

A loaded DM&IR taconite train makes it's around the curve at Bear Trap road on it's way South to Proctor on a bitter cold morning in February 1996

Reading & Northern SD38 #2000 leads a short local from Jim Thorpe back to Tamaqua as it passes through the short tunnel just east of Nesquehoning on the former CNJ Nesquehoning Valley Branch. This... (more)

DM&IR SD9 168, the only original Missabe unit in this set, does its part to help lift ore empties up from the ore dock in Duluth to the yard at Proctor. The old veteran would be off the roster the... (more)

Engineer Mike Kohl and Conductor Kyle Sanders bring a trio of Reading & Northern EMDs led by SD38 #2000 and the southbound Reading Turn under the ex-PRR Schuylkill Valley Branch (now a bike path) ... (more)

Fresh out of the R&N's Port Clinton shop and sporting a new coat of paint, SD38 2003 is seen here working the Tamaqua - Jim Thorpe local as it goes about spotting tank cars at Air Products near Ho... (more)

Reading & Northern SD38 #2000 sports its fresh paint job as it leads a Jim Thorpe to Hometown (High Bridge) fall foliage excursion through Nesquehoning, PA on the former Central of New Jersey Nesq... (more)

One probably wouldn't expect to see a pair of McCloud River Railroad SD38s dragging a long freight train in Utah. The power short Union Pacific leased two of these EMDs from McCloud between 1988 a... (more)

Reading & Northern SD38 #2003, fresh from shop work and sporting a new coat of paint, leads a Jim Thorpe to Hometown High Bridge fall foliage excursion seen here about to pass under the Lincoln Dr... (more)

The last raw ore train to load at Evtac's Thunderbird North mine before the operation closed. Fortunately it would reopen at the end of 2003 under new ownership and continues to be a big shipper f... (more)

In the mid-1990s the big U.S. Steel roads swapped a number of units with the Missabe getting SD38s from the B&LE and EJ&E and those roads receiving older DM&IR SD-Ms and SD18/SD9s. The "new" DM&IR... (more)

A pair of McCloud River Railroad SD38s haul a long train of forest products at the foot of Mt. Shasta. Huh? Not at all! A power short Union Pacific leased McCloud River SD38s #36-37 in 1988, and a... (more)

Freshly painted Reading & Northern SD38 #2003 leads a Jim Thorpe - High Bridge fall foliage excursion through downtown Nesquehoning, PA. The train is passing by the world headquarters of the KME K... (more)

When I think DM&IR this is what normally comes to mind, clean units, non turbo EMD's, and good rail. The Steelton job has just begin the assault on Steelton Hill with 208,175,313,189 and 193.

Four Missabe units begin the assult on Steelton Hill at sunset with a train of empty ore cars. This train was a joint ore move between WC (note the ex-C&NW ore cars) and the DM&IR from the Minorca... (more)