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)
I had a hunch these would be dropping like flies, so I was getting all I could of these. Fired off 5 rolls of this one....
The hostlers have just washed this string of power and are moving to another part of the engine terminal. This unit should be lettered SBD but has somehow escaped so far.
Ex SBD
Back then, it was a treat to get these into Houston on the BHZ or unit grain trains.
Grinding uphill on Duff Mountain
Uphill at Duff Mountain, 2 C30-7s shoving hard on rear. Sounded like a herd of helicopters coming up the valley.
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.
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)
L&N units take a train of N&W lake coal out of WIlliamson, WV.
