Cruisin’ on the T-Bird A southbound Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range “T-Bird” shuttle ore train rumbles by in a pan photo just south of Iron Junction, Minnesota, on September 23, 1994. The 315 is designated a SD-M, which are rebuilt SD9s and SD18s by Missabe’s Proctor Shops, and is former SD9 No. 163.
Pace and pan shots of trains from on the ground or in the air. If you're not in the locomotive cab or on-board the train, it's the next best thing to being there.
An exclamation attributed to TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson, it is this eponymous expression of which certain images convey man and machine versus nature . . .