Paul Meyer photo.

Paul Meyer photo.

A brief opening in the clouds lets the morning sun shine through as a trio of former IC SD70's are hard at work bringing a loaded ore train up the grade out of Conneaut on the CN Bessemer Sub.

Paul Meyer photo.

Paul Meyer photo.

Paul Meyer photo.

On the first day of 1991, an Illinois Central mixed freight passes the former Kankakee passenger depot. Paul Meyer photo.

A pair of Illinois Central SW14s have pulled east on the IHB in Dolton as they work their way back to home rails after bringing a transfer to the IHB's Blue Island Yard. Tom Golden photo.

IC #1029 heads south along home rails through Hyde Park on Chicago's south side with L536 (Glenn Yard-Kirk Yard). The electric catenaries date back to 1926 when the Illinois Central electrified it... (more)

CN L572 is pulling south toward Flat Rock as they approach Champaign Road in Allen Park. This train is pulling interchange traffic picked up from the Norfolk Southern at Oakwood Yard with a p... (more)

CN L572 is pulling into Oakwood Yard with a string of interchange cars. This job operates on former Detroit Toledo and Ironton rails from Flat Rock.

IC 6264 eases empty ore jennies out of CN's Proctor Yard, bound for the famed Minnesota Iron Range to be reloaded with Taconite pellets.

A colorful lashup of CN subsidiary roads in the IC, DMIR, and BLE, await their crew and their trip back up Proctor Hill with ore empties on CN's Dock 6.

A trio of former IC SD40-3s ease empty ore jennies onto CN's Dock 6 in Duluth in nice golden hour light for the cars to be dumped, and pellets stockpiled, for the upcoming Great Lakes shipping sea... (more)

A pair of GP38-2s head south through downtown Lemont passed the historic depot.