While Badger's attractive GP9 is in the shop for work, this leased former Conrail GP15-1 (1689) shoves empty hoppers towards the plant to be loaded with sand.

In May 1974, U23C 7514 eases off the Fierro Industrial Spur and onto the Santa Rita District main at Hanover Junction. The track leading off to the right is the branch to the Kennecott open pit co... (more)

A Santa Fe mine shuttle with GE U23C's 7512 and 7506 snakes around curves on the Santa Rita District near Hurley, New Mexico in May 1974. The train––loaded at a Kennecott open pit mine just ar... (more)

Hallett 12, an EMD SW2, picks up a cut of ore cars just delivered from CN for interchange at Boston Yard. The cars will be spotted at Hallett Dock Co. for the loading of limestone then brought ba... (more)

Union Pacific’s West Local switches Rocky Spur on July 8, 2012. Three UP GP40-2s (two rebuilt from Southern Pacific GP40s, while one is a former Cotton Belt locomotive) switches Western Aggregat... (more)

Rio Grande's Provo based 665 local assembles loads of dolomite from the Keigley quarry, bound for Geneva Steel. The broad expanse of the Goshen Valley, the south shore of Utah Lake, and the East T... (more)

An ore train, OT1, slowly backs through the dumper delivering another load for the smelter in Hayden, AZ.

Arizona Eastern SW1200 No. 24 on the 105 job drops down to Junction Yard with empty hoppers after dumping the loads of copper concentrate into the unloading facility of the Phelps-Dodge smelter co... (more)

A former Union Pacific SD50, now owned and lettered for CEMEX, powers a train from the Bell Mountain mine down the old Mojave Northern rail line to the old Southwest Portland cement plant near Vic... (more)

Ex C&O/CSX GP39 504 leads today's mine runs as the second train of the day gets under way. The engineer has the trio of GP39s in full dynamics as the train approaches Ray Junction with 42 loads on... (more)

You can put lipstick on a pig... with all of her hood doors open for ventilation this fresh looking unit guts it out up Proctor Hill. The #5264 kept overheating and the crew had to explain to the ... (more)

Crew member protects the reverse move of limestone from Lakehead to Missabe Junction.

A rare evening run of the Tintic Local rambles through fields of corn and alfalfa with empties to load at Geneva's dolomite quarry at Keigley. Photo captured from the elevated shoulder of Intersta... (more)

Rio Grande's Tintic Local rambles slowly along the foothills of Warm Springs Mountain in Utah's Goshen Valley. EMD GP9s 5912 and 5931 have 10 loads of gold ore extracted from the Burgin mine, loca... (more)

A colorful consist leads eastbound rock empties near Reno Junction.