Steaming away on a winter's day. Fresh made taconite pellets come around the corner and down the hill from the Minntac plant who's steam plume can be seen above the trees located in Mountain Iron... (more)

During an era when a seemingly (and sometimes literally) endless parade of coal trains prevailed across the Nebraska plains, UP 9258 with an SD90/43 MAC and an SP AC4400 lead an empty coal set out... (more)

CN 2020 leads U791 to Two Harbors, passing through desolate Skibo, MN.

U788 approaches the diamond at Ramshaw with CN 2010 leading.

Snow falling and the wind howling as a trio of dash 8s come crawling along the CN Iron Range Sub with 145 ore cars for loading.

Passing through some snow while the sun is shing, CN 2041 leads as they head up to the U.S. Steel Minntac plant to load taconite pellets.

A snowmobiler offers a friendly wave as Fox River Valley Railroad’s Proviso to Green Bay (PRGBA) freight passes over a bridge at Kewaskum, Wisconsin, on January 27, 1991. The train is powered by... (more)

CN 2010 leads a loaded ID South through the snow at Highland.

Lancaster & Chester train 12 at Orrs Station Road

On the marijuana holiday, a quad set of dash 8s with 145 ore cars of Minorca made marbles in tow cut through the latest snow event as they head back for Two Harbors, MN.

Today the snow is falling, the wind is blowing and it's 22 degrees which is a far cry from 48 hours ago when it was sunny and 72. A T-Bird rumbles and rattles the old steel bridge spanning the sw... (more)

Quite the change from forty-eight hours ago when the snow was almost gone and the temperature was 72 degrees with sun. Fast forward and it's 22 degrees with snow falling and the wind is howling as... (more)

CN C40-8 2112 leads a T-bird North through Eveleth.

A T-Bird mine shuttle train rolls over the swollen Elbow Creek as they south.

A week ago it was 10 degrees and snowing, today it was 70 degrees and sunny. The snowmelt was fast this spring across NE Minnesota and took less than a week so the rivers are high and moving fast... (more)