Sad lite engine move, as these have just cut off the Hill Job at the AEI scanner and are running lite back to the shop. A 3 unit set of "new" ex BN U30Cs will replace them and bring the train in.... (more)

This old brute has turned it's last wheel but still sits like an old warrior ready for the next battle.

Don't know what's the main attraction; the U23Cs on the Dock Job still surviving, or the smoke show after every throttle-up placing each ore car over the proper dumper on the dock!

Nice trip to Eagle Mills on this weekend. Everything was perfect; all GEs, cool clear weather, friendly employees, release to have the run of the place: until I started back and got; a.) busted a... (more)

The Tilden job and the Hill job both are at East Eagle Mills; the Tilden has just returned from Tilden mine with loads, while the Hill job pumps air for the descent into Marquette to drop their tr... (more)

This consist is the second engine consist of this train. The first was the 2501 (last operating U25C) and 2 U23Cs; they had mechanical problems and cut off at the scanner (only operating AEI scan... (more)

A pair of U-Boats pulls a cut of empties off the dock for the hill job to bring back to Eagle Mills.

A pair of U-Boats heads into the rock cut with a five car freight train.

Full Steam Ahead! Details on how I survived this capture provided in comment section for those wondering.

A pair of Lake Superior & Ishpeming U30C locomotives shove ore jennies on the dock above the Lee A. Tregurtha - originally the USS Chiwawa (AO-68), launched in 1942 as a fleet tanker for World War... (more)

As if wound up from a reverse move North, LS&I #33 charges South en route to Morgan Run with a thoroughly satisfied group of passengers. Many thanks to Jerry Jacobson - keep chugg'n! A 1/15th c... (more)

Typical rural Ohio...hardly. Lake Superior & Ishpeming 'Consolidation' 33 runs light up to Sugar Creek as a horse and buggy head the opposite direction towards Baltic.

Lake Superior & Ishpeming 2-8-0 33 nears the end of the run as she crosses Township Road 509 and approaches the Route 36 overpass. On the other side of the highway bridge, the train will cross the... (more)

Surprisingly, even though this is a smoke-free facility, no one called in to complain about former Lake Superior & Ishpeming 2-8-0 33's smoking. The chunky Consol sits at the Sugarcreek station bo... (more)