U717 comes around the S curve at Culver, MN with DMIR 406 in the lead.

Coming up from Proctor to load at United Taconite before returning back to Proctor and all the while not seeing much but the fog covered landscape.

Moving along under the cover of fog.

The crew has finished loading 145 ore cars up at Minntac has called for signals to depart and head back towards Two Harbors. RTC has given them the lights to proceed.

A former BN SD70MAC leads the way on the Northern Transcon's hottest Z train, as they begin their approach to the Twin Cities, with a Dash 9 in second place in the Heritage 1 scheme, making this t... (more)

YSPBN pulls into East Minneapolis with two SD40Ns and an SD60M for power. Once an important yard for the C&NW, East Minneapolis' footprint and role has been greatly reduced over the years. Althoug... (more)

After completing their work at Keenan yard, CN 5485 has reassembled the train and starts to pull on Main 1 and thus starting the race to the end of the double track section on the CN Missabe sub a... (more)

A long empty all-rail taconite train slows for the upcoming stop before shoving into Keenan yard where the train will be split and staged until their load time at the U.S. Steel Minntac plant beco... (more)

In some of the last sunlight of a nice February evening, a lengthy southbound BNSF manifest claws its way to the top of the grade from Marshall to Florence, MN. A cloud bank was moving in, so the ... (more)

After waiting for a northbound to clear into the siding, a southbound manifest with a CSX AC4400 rebuild on the point gets underway again. A Ferromex SD70ACe is the DPU of the northbound. That H2 ... (more)

After being held briefly for a westbound to move from main 2 to main 1 at the Richards Spur crossovers just around the curve in the distance, an eastbound accelerates into Detroit Lakes, MN on a c... (more)

Milwaukee Road's Newport Tower stood along the heavily trafficked Milwaukee Road & Burlington Northern joint mainlines just east (south) of Pig's Eye and Dayton Bluff yards in St. Paul. The Rock I... (more)

A quiet Saturday morning that still has some patchy fog hanging in the air finds a three-person crew performing some switching moves alongside the Blandin paper mill near downtown Grand Rapids, MN... (more)

A quiet and foggy Saturday morning finds newly placed Great Northern caboose X-259 (built 1948) sitting on rails beside the city of Bemidji’s Great Northern Depot which was James J. Hill’s las... (more)

MILW 60A, an FP7 built as 90A in June 1950, mates with an F7A and moves away from the MILW engine terminal at Pig's Eye Yard, St. Paul. After a career of handling Hiawatha's and other MILW passeng... (more)