A different view of the Robert Street Lift Bridge as seen from my motel room. I was put up at the Crowne Plaza in St. Paul for a conference last week. The view was amazing. From my motel room I... (more)

While it is nice to shoot clean locomotives in the sun, it pains me to be shooting noodles instead of Maroon and Gold.

Can't believe only two Maroon and Gold units remain...

A hopper train is seen in the distance rolling north on the former Missabe as the DMIR 403 leads raw taconite to the processing plant.

Raw taconite shuttles meet at Largo. The DMIR 403 will take the loads south while a pair of repainted tunnel motor body SD40's lead empties into the plant for loading.

One of two remaining Maroon and Gold DMIR locomotives leads a raw taconite train enroute to Unitac where it will be processed into taconite pellets. For some reason the train went into emergency ... (more)

The rails that lead to Minntac have seen thousands of trains over the years. Since the Canadian National took over the Missabe, the railroad's fleet of Maroon and Gold locomotives have almost bee... (more)

As the sun sets over coal loads in the Cass Lake Yard, the low sun angle and clean locomotives make for a brilliant glint shot. This would be the last train of the day photographed on an epic adv... (more)

Nothing like a good ol' fashion TRAIN RACE! Limestone empties are overtaking a loaded raw taconite shuttle south of Forbes as both trains click and clack over the line with their shorty cars. Th... (more)

One of the better shots of the day was one of the first of the day... set the bar high for some great action on the former DMIR. This raw taconite shuttle is rolling south to the processing plant... (more)

The nice thing about having the section crew based right in Cass Lake, the yard switches are normally cleared off promtply after a snowfall. This SD70ACe is parked on the main waiting for a crew ... (more)

It took several days for this shot the develop... first was the snowfall, second was the blowing and drifting, third was the sun, and the fourth and most difficult was having a train! The first t... (more)

An AC GEVO has the honors today as they are about to get on the mainline for a run through Minneapolis.

Dust off your shoulders and get back to work... snow accumulates on top of this GE as the train was obviously doing some drift busting out west.

Skirting along the frozen shores of Pike Bay, this coal drag is trying to gain speed for the run up Cuba Hill.