A loaded tailings train from Silver Bay heads for the dump that is just around the corner and through the woods.

With dynamic brakes howling the 5am loads rolls down grade with 156 loads in tow for the Silver Bay processing plant.

After swapping out the two U30C's in Marquette with the 7am dock, the hill job heads back to Eagle mills with the 3073 and another U30C as they approach the scales. There is nothing like the Upper... (more)

Can you smell the paint? GLC 390 sits on A track coupled to GLC 392 awaiting to have the finishing touches put on it, mainly just the reflective tape. With the painting of 390 only 3 GP35's remai... (more)

A rare catch on the LS&I now a days, a pair of U30C's pull a load of pellets into Eagle mills yard for the docks in Marquette. Since the lease of the CEFX AC4400's the U30C's and C30-7's have been... (more)

While on our way to catch a southbound loaded ore train, we heard the local go into emergency just south of our location and were some of the first to show up on scene, here we see some "smart" lo... (more)

A few miles north of the Allegheny river bridge BLE 910 south throttles up with a load of ore in tow for the Union Railroad.

The beautiful downtown Pittsburgh skyline looms in the background of Bennett Levin's E8's.

BLE 902, 867 and 910 sits tacked onto a empty train ready to depart XB for Conneaut Oh. for another load of ore.

With 74 loads of ore in tow the engineer of the three tunnel motors cuts the power back and will start to apply the dynamic brakes in just a few minutes for the down hill run to the Allegheny rive... (more)

Amtrak 66 leads the morning's Capitol Limited as it makes it's daily station stop. 30 left Alliance OH 35 minutes late and arrived into Pittsburgh 10 minutes early, now that's making up time.

Storm clouds build in as a CN mixed freight shoves a cut of interchange cars into the yard in Durand for the HESR and GLC.

The morning local out of Glenwood yard putters down the main with cars for Eighty Four and Washington PA.

After sitting north of the interchange for a bit, the AVR heads for Washington and ducks under the Wheeling & Lake Erie bridge. Just to right out of sight is a empty AVR coal train that was delive... (more)

Three Mac's shove hard on the tail end of C90 making its way out of the Sonman load out with a 100 loads of black diamonds.