A great looking Soo SD60 heads freight from Kansas City on train 171. Sure is a different sight from 2 years ago, when this train ran with 2 ICE/DME SD40-2's.

A nice EMD powered consist heads coal empties out of Winona on a lovely June afternoon.

A CP 5942 is in charge of coke empties for Roseport on a sunny afternoon.

IC&E 6419 heads 271 past IC&E 6415 on the point of a crew-less 487.

A nice set of EMD motors rumble north out of Owatonna with a short 30 car train in tow.

The highest numbered unit on the DM&E roster grinds upgrade on the head of 487 bound for Huron, SD.

DM&E 6094 glimmers in the last hour of sun as it heads a 171 up river.

CSXT 410, Soo 6021, and CP 4612 storm out of an extremely overgrown Weaver West.

DMIR 400 and an ex IC SD40-3 head 18 loads through Iron Junction.

First train of the day is a T-Bird arriving at Fairlane with DMIR 406 and 212.

Just by luck I caught a CN northbound land barge behind my hotel in Virginia. 2 CN C44's and brand new NRE 700 head towards the setting sun with a massive train in tow.

DMIR 401 and 409 motor south through Iron Junction on a loaded T-Bird. This was just 3 months before the 401 was totaled in a head-on-collision near Two Harbors.

I was told that DMIR 212 had been working Two Harbors for quite some time, but when I was at Iron Junction it had been stuck onto a T-Bird. Even though it is no longer maroon and gold, it is still... (more)

A trio of death star SD40-3's wind through Iron Junction with a train from Two Harbors. What a sight in 2010 to see such a lash-up.

An ex IC SD40-3 heads a massive ore train for Two Harbors approaches Iron Junction.