Ore loads cross the Whiteface River on a snowy afternoon in the Iron Range.

On the final stretch into Chicago, Illinois Central train 28, the northbound Illini out of Carbondale, approaches the station at Homewood, IL, with ten cars behind a pair of E8s.

A matched trio of Illinois Central SD70's lead a southbound iron ore train on the CN's Bessemer Sub, crossing the Osgood trestle over Crooked Creek and the NS Meadville Line.

IC 1003 & 1026 leading two CN painted motors South past the Amtrak depot in Kankakee on the former IC mainline. This train would shortly after make a pit stop in Otto, IL to make a pick up.

CN U702 rolls south as it approaches the scale track just north of Albion PA.

A pair of Illinois Central SD70's and a CN SD60 speed through the western Pennsylvania countryside on the former Bessemer & Lake Erie, now the CN Bessemer Sub.

IC 1028 leads Southbund Bessemer and Lake Erie Ore Train U702 Southbound through Rt 215. just north of Albion, PA.

With two IC SD70's and a CN SD60, an empty ore train heads north over the CN's Bessemer Sub and is about to duck under the CSX mainline and into the harbor at Conneaut. The local fisherman are out... (more)

Another oddball IC SD70 leader is seen on L545 at Joliet, back when daylight return trips were very common.

Back before IC SD70's became commonplace leaders again on the Chicago Subdivision, IC 1029 leads M371 through Ashkum, Illinois back in 2017.

IC 1036 leads CN L509 south through Shorewood.

A trio of EMDs pull a train of loaded limestone train up Proctor Hill.

A pair of IC SD70s lead train L509 south toward Minooka

IC 6260 prepares to depart Proctor for the iron range with an empty ore train while a still steaming loaded pellet train has recently arrived.