Rare LS&I C307s pair up on a mine run job out of Eagle Mills, MI. Here they are bringing several cars back to a siding west of Eagle Mills and will set them out for the CN to pick up.

UP 9633 lead a very short CN local through Eagle Mills Jct. on its return from Partridge back to Ishpeming, MI where it will do some switching and head west. During this period, the only CN unit s... (more)

CEFX 1022 leased by Lake Superior & Ishpeming head a train through Eagle Mills Jct. en route to Tilden Mine, several miles distant. This junction along with Palmer Jct. and Empire Jct. form an X r... (more)

Lake Superior & Ishpeming’s Hill Job works its train by the yard office at the east end of Eagle Mills yard.

Lake Superior & Ishpeming’s Hill Job makes a pull as it puts together its train to feed an ore boat at Marquette. Alligator smoke drew railfans from all over the country to the Upper Peninsula.

Reminiscent of Soo Line's butt ugly MILW Bandits, this Progressive Rail Leasing unit was assigned to the CN local from Gladstone/Escanaba during our visit. I allowed myself only one picture series... (more)

LS&I had two C30-7s, nos. 3073 and 3074 operating the afternoon of July 20, 2018. The units were making a light move to Partridge Yard on CN to pick up empty all rail ore cars for loading at Tilde... (more)

LS&I U30Cs nos. 3000 and 3009 work a morning mine run returning from Tilden Mine to Eagle Mills, where another crew with CEFX power will take the train down to the Presque Isle ore dock. The forme... (more)

The 7 A.M. Tilden train returns to the yard at Eagle Mills with a load of taconite. These are some of, if not the last U30C's operating in the United States.

The morning crew returns to Eagle Mills with its loaded ore train completing its round trip to Tilden Mine. Later a dock job will deliver the cars to the dock near Marquette, MI.

With a tight market for lease locomotives due to traffic levels on most North American railroads, the Lake Superior & Ishpeming continues to utilize its shrinking fleet of former BN U30Cs as a vit... (more)

BNSF 8204 and a former BNSF SD75M leads the afternoon all rail ore train empties (plus some manifest) west on the Canadian National at Goose Lake, near Eagle Mills, MI. The Former C&NW line typica... (more)

LSI 3009 leads a second U30C on an empty ore train run from Eagle Mills to Tilden Mine in upper Michigan. The train is passing through Palmer Junction, and the foreground track is used by CN from ... (more)

The Lake Superior & Ishpeming “Hill Job” gets ready to depart the yard at Eagle Mills, Michigan. The majority of the RSD15’s on the roster were painted in this stunning red paint scheme.

Three Lake Superior & Ishpeming RSD15 “Alligators” bring a train of empties from the ore docks at Marquette into the yard at Eagle Mills. At this time, the RSD15’s were the preferred power o... (more)