A trio of Bessemer SD's leads the southbound ore train through Verona, PA, nearing the end of their journey at North Bessemer Yard.

Taking the left turn off the Missabe sub and into the United Fairlane property delivering rock from the mine.

How cool is this in 2022. BLE 906 and sister BLE 909 bring taconite rock loads south and meet up with DMIR 404 and sister DMIR 406 bringing the empties north along the CN Missabe sub.

CN's Miscellaneous Road Freight led by DMIR 405, nears Keenan just south of Iron Junction, MN. This trackage is the former DM&IR mainline south from the Mesabi Iron Range to Duluth. CN also uses t... (more)

CN's Miscellaneous Road Freight led by DMIR 405, an SD40-3, i.e., a rebuilt SD45-2T, makes good time west of Biwabik near Gilbert, MN as it heads from Two Harbors to Keenan Yard. Ample power for i... (more)

Countryside Railroading. Working on a Sunday to relieve a freight backlog, this L&C mixed freight moves past a large farm on its way to Richburg, SC, where it will make some pickups to the... (more)

BLE 909 and sister BLE 906 continue to be paired up (thanks, CN!!!) to move rock from United Taconite's Thunderbird mine coarse crusher down to their plant about 10 miles away where it's made into... (more)

BLE 906 and sister BLE 909 continue to load rock at United Taconite's Thunderbird mine coarse crusher while a production truck rumbles by on its way to feed the crusher more material.

DMIR 404 and sister DMIR 406 are currently paired up to move rock from the United Taconite Thunderbird mine down to their Fairlane processing plant 113 cars at a time. Seen passing the former DMI... (more)

What a pair. In a fairly rare occurrence for this job, BLE 906 and BLE 909 are paired up as one set of power for the T-Bird mine shuttles moving rock from the mine to the plant. They look good in... (more)

March 12th and it's minus 15 degrees on this fine late winter morning as CN 5337 leads three other EMD products and 58 empty DMIR difco sidedumps down from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant about to cr... (more)

The city of Fowler, located ten miles south of Fresno in California’s San Joaquin Valley, is a fairly typical agricultural area typical of so many in the Valley. This area has a large number of... (more)

Pulling the Hill. L&C 12 tops a fairly steep grade as it approaches Richburg, where a small yard is located.

LC 6002 sits tied down in Chester, SC along with sister SDs 7092 and 8782.

Ohio Central's Scio Turn hustles eastward