LS&I 1850, 1853, 1804 on the 3 Tilden head west with 60 empties for loading at Tilden Mine.

Good as it gets! Making a rare appearance, LS&I no. 33 makes a special run for the Ohio Rail Tourism Special between Sugar Creek and Morgan run Ohio. A pan at 1/30 sec.

A set of ex-BN U30Cs, used for the "Dock Job", lay over in between crews at West Yard. The BN paint held up fairly well a few years into their service on the LS&I.

The LS&I 7-weigher job passes the Empire Mine pellet conveyors on its way to Tilden Mine.

Three RSD-15's bring a loaded Taconite train into the yard at Marquette with the brake shoes smoking.

From the archives III: LS&I #33. Built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, PA, February, 1916. At the time this photo as taken, approximately 300 operational steam engines r... (more)

Pausing in between taking cuts of ore jennies from the yard to the tipple and into the hold of a laker, one of the sentries of the docks poses for what would be one of the last opportunities to ca... (more)

Once tough and proud sentry of the Preque Isle docks, one of the tough guys now sits in vain waiting for another call at the Eagle Mills shop.

The 3-Yard passes L540 where the LS&I and CN split at Eagle Mills Jct.

The 3 Tilden brings in a load of ore from the mines and pulls around the wye and approaches M-35.

Top of Dead River Trestle.

The 7 Tilden job is cutting off it's train and is about to head back to the Tilden mine for another cut. Adjacent to him is the 7 Hill job pumping air in preparation for the downhill run to the d... (more)

The 3PM Tilden Job brings another train of pellets to the yard at Eagle Mills, where the train will be yarded and combined with other cuts for the Hill Job to take to the docks in Marquette.

The 3PM Hill Job is returning from Marquette after dropping off loads and picking up empties, easing past the AEI scanner and about to cross the Morgan Creek bridge. Don't ask me how I got across... (more)

Like viewing a masterpiece at an art museum, here is the last U25C in existence; well, actually at the time the 2500 had not yet been scrapped, so almost. It was the last to run, having caught th... (more)