Fog has settled over the Twin Ports region on the morning of June 13, 2016 as a railroader walks back to the Canadian National locomotive facility at Proctor, Minnesota, passing a line up of power... (more)

A trio of cabooses bring up the rear of a westbound BN freight rolling through Newport, MN on its last lap into the Twin Cities. BN 10708, a modern extended vision caboose is preceded by two forme... (more)

On the first weekend of December, the small town of Knife River, Minnesota holds its Julebyen Festival, full of Scandinavian Christmas crafts, food, music, and games. The North Shore Scenic Railro... (more)

A pair of GE's power CN intermodal Q199 as it cruises across the Oliver Bridges and crosses the state line into New Duluth, Minnesota as it heads towards the climb up Steelton Hill. After crossing... (more)

The daily St. Paul to Kansas City freight rounds the curve at Reno on the CPKC Marquette Sub. This is about the only place I saw north of Harpers where water was a problem. The CP dump rock thru h... (more)

CN 2041 leads a trio of GE's on an empty ore train arriving at Minntac from Two Harbors (ore dock). This loco was built as CNW 8542 in August 1990 and became UP 9064. C&NW ordered these GE's with ... (more)

BN 9812 features a unique nose door twin sealed beam headlight as well as BN's passenger scheme at Minneapolis. The unit is former NP 7010D, built late in the F unit era in March 1956. It also use... (more)

This shot shows the same train, at nearly the same spot, on the same day as my RailPictures image #844151. The difference is that the train is about 200’ closer to the photographer and has a muc... (more)

A trio of BLE motors pull out of UTAC for the trip south down the Missabe sub to Proctor.

About 15,000 tons of taconite pellets spaced out in 138 ore cars pulled by three SD40-3s cruise down the CN Missabe Sub near Saginaw as they roll towards Proctor yard.

Limestone loads pass a loaded ore train that's waiting to be dumped at CN's Dock 6 before attacking Proctor Hill.

Just a couple of SD40-3s, a SD40-2W and another SD40-3 barking up Proctor Hill with limestone loads in tow rounding the curve at Spirit Mountain.

The westbound RCPE train from the Union Pacific interchange in Mankato to Aurora, SD rolls by the old elevator at Essig, MN on a beautiful fall evening.

An eastbound train descends the grade into the Minnesota River valley just west of North Redwood, MN, passing the Central Bi-Products facility along the way.

Milwaukee Road 261 leads the North Pole Express equipment through Seventh Street, as they head for Saint Paul Union Depot. https://261.com/npe/