Two "Operation: Lifesaver" locomotives sit back to back in the morning sun including NS 5317 and IC 6071. Both are on display for Monticello Railway Museum's Railroad Days event.

Illinois Central 6071, the first EMD SD40 ever built, is on display as the "IC 6071 Exhibit" at the Monticello Railway Museum's yearly "Railroad Days" event on September 22, 2012. The unit started... (more)

A lone BlueBerry C-40W starts it's string of empty hoppers south at Rugby Jct.

CN 149 weaves its way through the S-curve at Newtonville Rd. with IC 2725 and 8871 up front.

A five unit lash-up powers 332's train today with a mixture of IC Dash 9's, an early model CWL, a standard cab Dash 8 and a widecab EMD.

Illinois Central 101 pulls a passenger special for Ashley Furniture's 40th anniversary through Dodge, Wisconsin as a TERRIFIED horse flees the scene.

IC 1032 and CN 2128 stroll through the Heights, headed west for the Matteson connection not far ahead.

An Illinois Central deathstar and a CN standard cab C40-8 split the EJ&E searchlights at Ivanhoe, headed west from Kirk Yard.

The two Proctor Roadswitch Jobs meet in Duluth. The morning jobs arrives at Dock 6 with ore loads while the night job handles commercial traffic for the mines.

The death stars soldier on hauling ore as the IC 6251 leads a sister and newly painted SD40-2W north on a slow moving empty for U-Tac

IC 2723 leads 332 through the S-curve at Hamilton West.

IC 6250 positions ore cars on the top of Dock #1 as the retired DM&IR steam tug Edna G waits for the day's tourists to arrive.

Coming down from U.S. Steel Minntac with 135 loads of steaming taconite pellets heading for Proctor, MN and ulimately the docks on the shores of Lake Superior.

A few wisps of steam can still be seen as taconite loads come to a stop short of the scale in proctor. DMIR 215 (still in marron) is paired with DMIR 211 working a cut of cars at the west end of ... (more)