A cold refreshing image back when it was below zero and code blue on New Year's Day compared to the 90 degrees with a dew point at 72 degrees on this last day of spring in NE Minnesota.

A mixed freight from Proctor, MN to Canada with Dash 8 CN 2020 and a trio of tunnel motors in the form of BLE 903, DMIR 409 and DMIR 405 charge north through Fairlane along the CN Missabe sub late... (more)

A trio of Dash 8's navigate the S curve leading into N. Biwabik on a nice spring morning.

A trio of former CNW standard cabs lead 145 cars of taconite pellets south in the early morning hours on a late spring day.

The rising sun catches the tops of the plumes of steam billowing out of the trio of C40-8's leading 145 empties for Minntac on a -34F degree morning.

The weekly Providence & Worcester stone train, more commonly known as CHFP, which runs to Fresh Pond Yard in Queens, NY, makes its way westbound with 95 loads past West Haven Station on Metro-Nort... (more)

CN C40-8 2016 leads ore empties North through Fairbanks.

Heading back from Dodge City, this Cimarron Valley train passes some field sprinklers with its freshly painted D8 leading and a B40 still in CSX colors.

A loaded train of crushed raw taconite (blast furnace trim) makes its way across the Whiteface River in Kelsey, MN with a nice mix of power.

Loaded limestone makes its way into Fairlane behind a pair of CN C40-8's and an SD40-2W. In Chicagoland, CN is sending these old CNW Dash 8's to scrap at an alarming rate, but a good number of the... (more)

The southbound MRF rolls through Saginaw, bound for Proctor. A CN standard cab Dash 8, a CN SD60, a DMIR/CN tunnel motor and a CN GEVO provide the power for the short train.

CN 2040 leads limestone loads North up Spirit Mountain.

Plenty of Csx unit's sit awaiting there fate.

Navigating the S-curve CN 2006 north is taking the turn on what was the former DM&N, then DM&IR and now the CN Iron Range Sub passing by the grade of the former D&IR which was abandoned in 1972.

White Nose In The Snow. As Pan Am Railways came closer and closer to being bought out, it seemed the paint shop was concurrently less active and more creative. Previous generations of EMDs ... (more)