An empty Thunderbird mine shuttle is seen heading back to the mine at Iron Junction. The shuttles operate on a four-hour cycle, bringing raw ore from the mine at Thunderbird in Virginia to the Uni... (more)

An empty taconite train is seen returning from Two Harbors on the Iron Range Subdivision. The train is crossing the former DW&P (now CN Rainey Sub) at the diamond in Ramshaw. The former CNW Dash 8... (more)

An empty taconite train is seen returning from Two Harbors on the Iron Range Subdivision. The train is about to cross the former DW&P (now CN Rainey Sub) at the diamond in Ramshaw. The former CNW ... (more)

Local L568 is seen wrapping around the curve at Munger passing under the former DW&P during a lucky break in the morning clouds.

DMIR 408 leads two other tunnel motors and an empty taconite pellet train over the Cloquet River Bridge and back to the Iron Range to be reloaded.

trio of former tunnel motors leads empty taconite pellet train U716 out of Proctor Yard bound for Fairlane. On an adjoining track, a yard job is seen working as two loaded limestone trains await ... (more)

A trio of former tunnel motors leads empty taconite pellet train U716 up the grade at Munger passing under the old DW&P, now the CN Rainey Sub.

A Canadian National taconite pellet train is seen dumping loads on 1918-built Dock 6. This historic ore dock is located in Saint Louis Bay on Lake Superior. The train originated at the Fairlane pl... (more)

A Canadian National limestone train is seen heading North on the Missabe Sub passing under the former DW&P at Munger. Seeing a Gevo set on a limestone train is not a good sign of things to come as... (more)

After landing at Minneapolis-Saint Paul we drove directly to Duluth to see what would be running for the afternoon. A friend told us that there was an empty ore train coming off Dock 6, and we wer... (more)

After landing at Minneapolis-Saint Paul we drove directly to Duluth to see what would be running for the afternoon. A friend told us that there was an empty ore train coming off Dock 6, and we wer... (more)

Union Pacific 1983, the Western Pacific heritage unit is seen as the rear DPU on a coal train at Roper Yard in Salt Lake City.

The rear DPU pushes a coal train West out of the North Yard at Salt Lake City.

A Utah Railway local is seen passing Union Pacific's North Yard in Salt Lake City

The last of four trains we shot this morning was GSPXTC-04, a Pixley California to Tuscola, Illinois empty grain train. The train is snaking through Echo Canyon and passing Hanging Rock. This larg... (more)