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AARR wrote:Excellent report CAT. Thanks to you I do not have to risk my life railfanning this neat operation . Those are SD26's, right? I believe the only other ones still in operation are on Pan Am.

Manistique wrote:I recently published a book that includes a chapter on each of the railroad operations of the Port Inland, Cedarville and Rogers City quarries with photographs taken from 1965 to 1991. It is entitled "Taconite, Calcite, Dolomite, Michigan Mineral Railroads" that is available on Amazon.com. As you can tell by the title, it also covers Michigan's Iron Ore railroads. Byron Babbish

atrainguy60 wrote:

Manistique wrote:I recently published a book that includes a chapter on each of the railroad operations of the Port Inland, Cedarville and Rogers City quarries with photographs taken from 1965 to 1991. It is entitled "Taconite, Calcite, Dolomite, Michigan Mineral Railroads" that is available on Amazon.com. As you can tell by the title, it also covers Michigan's Iron Ore railroads. Byron Babbish

Welcome Bryon! BTW, I have one of your books(Book 4 of the GTW series). Very good coverage of the Holly Sub! Anyways, I don't mean to derail the thread, lol.

atrainguy60 wrote:

Manistique wrote:I recently published a book that includes a chapter on each of the railroad operations of the Port Inland, Cedarville and Rogers City quarries with photographs taken from 1965 to 1991. It is entitled "Taconite, Calcite, Dolomite, Michigan Mineral Railroads" that is available on Amazon.com. As you can tell by the title, it also covers Michigan's Iron Ore railroads. Byron Babbish

Welcome Bryon! BTW, I have one of your books(Book 4 of the GTW series). Very good coverage of the Holly Sub! Anyways, I don't mean to derail the thread, lol.

MQT1223 wrote:

atrainguy60 wrote:

Manistique wrote:I recently published a book that includes a chapter on each of the railroad operations of the Port Inland, Cedarville and Rogers City quarries with photographs taken from 1965 to 1991. It is entitled "Taconite, Calcite, Dolomite, Michigan Mineral Railroads" that is available on Amazon.com. As you can tell by the title, it also covers Michigan's Iron Ore railroads. Byron Babbish

Welcome Bryon! BTW, I have one of your books(Book 4 of the GTW series). Very good coverage of the Holly Sub! Anyways, I don't mean to derail the thread, lol.

There is a Holly Sub book?

NS3322 wrote:

MP73point4 wrote:

JANGAJONGA wrote:Is the Cedarville operation still running? I don't think I had heard of that before.

Cedarville is still running. Pictures taken 4/29/16. Loco is remote control, nobody on board.

Any public access to take pictures?

Joshua Dudinetz wrote:For reasons unknown, Genessee and Wyoming left the Port Inland operation in 2016, selling off their four green C&IM SD20s to LTEX in the process. Four somewhat similar locomotives were brought in by Carmeuse as replacements in the form of two SD20s and two GP9s.

TC railman wrote:Where is this exactly?

Robertrains wrote:Folks, I have been wanting to photograph some ex Chicago & Illinois Midland® SD20 locos!!!! I never got any of them and now it may be too late!!!! I knew there were some at Port Inland® in the U.P. I also was "Following" one working in Peoria, Illinois (Illinois Midland®)! That loco then went to the Indiana Southern® in Indiana! The loco, SD20 #81, was still in full C&IM paint and lettering (though more recently with only "IM" showing)! Recently I "Searched" online for these locos! Number 81 was "Transferred" to Port Inland® to work with the other three C&IM SD20 locos! Man, I wish I went up there to photograph them! Last year (2016) they all were sold to Larry's Truck & Electric® near Youngstown, Ohio (McDonald)!!!! However, they may still be in C&IM paint! Does anyone here know more about these locos? Are they being "Leased" somewhere? Is there a place I could go to photograph them? Could these SD20s still be at Larry's? If so, is it possible to get permission to go there and take pix on the property?

Here's CIM SD20 #81, 5/1/2014 Petersburg, IN (photo by Ryan Scott):

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=4079750

Here are all four CIM SD20 locos on their way to Larry's, 4/15/2016 Wheeling, IL (photo by Kyle Krinninger):

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... d=4442155#

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Photos in Port Inland, MI: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locThu ... x?id=68779

GLC 392 wrote:The IMRR 81 to my knowledge never went to Port Inland and I know for sure wasn’t part of the group sold to LTEX. 81 went from the Indiana Southern to Marquette Rail where we had it for a few years. The summer of 2018 it was sold to KLWX and from there it was repainted and sold to Cargill.

Robertrains wrote: » Sat Jan 14, 2017 9:47 pm
Folks, I have been wanting to photograph some ex Chicago & Illinois Midland® SD20 locos!!!! I never got any of them and now it may be too late!!!!
Here's CIM SD20 #81, 5/1/2014 Petersburg, IN (photo by Ryan Scott):

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=4079750
Here are all four CIM SD20 locos on their way to Larry's, 4/15/2016 Wheeling, IL (photo by Kyle Krinninger):

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... d=4442155#

NS3322 wrote:2019 Update:

I found a few photos of the new power on the Port Inland Railroad.

Part of the caption on Joshua Dudinetz's photo reads:

Joshua Dudinetz wrote:For reasons unknown, Genessee and Wyoming left the Port Inland operation in 2016, selling off their four green C&IM SD20s to LTEX in the process. Four somewhat similar locomotives were brought in by Carmeuse as replacements in the form of two SD20s and two GP9s.

The SD20's are: OPT 2030 and OPT 2041
The GP9's are: LSLX 1712 and the second one is a mystery.

OPT 2030 (SD20) (ex-NREX 2030 (SD20), ex-ICG 2030 (SD20), ex-UP 778 (SD7))
Photo by Joshua Dudinetz
https://www.flickr.com/photos/60207773@N07/37236431010


OPT 2041 (SD20) (ex-BO 7437, reblt 1/88 to ICG 2041)
Photo by Jim Guest.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimguest/29181995932


LSLX 1712 (GP9) (ex-FEC 672)
Photo by Unknown