An eastbound train on the Minnesota Prairie Line passes the restored Minneapolis & St Louis Railway depot at Fairfax.

The rolling hills of the Buffalo Ridge surround a southbound BNSF grain train as it hustles through southwest Minnesota.

A couple of old grain elevators along the former Great Northern in Russell, MN look on as an example of the modern unit grain trains that made them obsolete rolls by.

The sun isn't up yet as the crew on board BLE 900 heads for home at proctor yard with steaming taconite in tow on this cold morning.

A little snow falling as this empty ID from Two Harbors heads for U.S. Steel Minntac to load the trailing ore cars.

The last sliver of light hits the nose of BLE 906 as they cross the intersection of Highways 101 and 7 heading back home to Proctor yard.

Coming up from Two Harbors and across the CN Iron Range Sub it's now down the Missabe Sub for Proctor then down the hill to Duluth and back to the North Shore Scenic Railroad depot for this passen... (more)

A trio of ICs and some Missabe ore cars hauling taconite pellets back to Proctor yard.

CPCK's local from Winona skirts the west shores of the Mississippi River at Homer Siding as it heads south to LaCrosse.

With a new crew on board, a BNSF intermodal train departs from BNSF's Northtown Yard in Minneapolis, Minnesota behind a C44-9W. This is the south end of the Staples Subdivision, and the train will... (more)

Hiding a grungy CN GE in the NE Minnesota landscape.

Cruising back to Proctor yard with three EMDs and Missabe ore cars loaded to the brim with taconite pellets made at the U.S. Steel Minntac plant.

Cruising back to Proctor yard with three EMDs and Missabe ore cars loaded to the brim with taconite pellets.

The Waseca Local showed up in Rochester, MN today with only 1 car; a single bulkhead flat loaded with wallboard for a building supply company on the south side of town. I first saw it at Byron, MN... (more)

Their day done its back to the barn for the crew and the CTRR 36 as they pass the Northeastern Saloon, built in 1904, after switching cars for the Sappi Mill who's exhaust is seen in the backgroun... (more)