CN 5349 at Spruce.

The Keenan local job brings in some more boxcars for storage here at Biwabik. Along with the boxcars they also have some tank cars on the tail end of their train which they spot at a local blasti... (more)

CN 5349 leads two other EMDs and an empty taconite train North over the Iron Range Sub.

Well, that was a nice surprise as a matched pair of SD75Is lead a grain train south on the CN Rainy Sub through some peak fall colors.

Probably the last fall season these three Dash 8s will see as the purge of the former ex UP/CNW from CN's roster has begun. Here's a trio of them departing Minntac with taconite pellets bound for... (more)

Northbound container train cutting thru the fog as they head north for the Canadian border crossing at Ranier, MN.

DMIR 402 leads an empty taconite train through Aurora, MN.

A four pack of Canadian National SDs bomb South down the Two Harbors Sub.

Two former Soo Line GP9's are living out their days loading grain trains at the large elevator in downtown New Ulm, Minnesota, seen parked on a nice afternoon in September 2017. They've outlasted ... (more)

On a nice late summer evening, a pair of older CSX EMD locomotives lead an empty ethanol train west of Minneapolis on the Twin Cities & Western's former Milwaukee Road mainline. In just a few mile... (more)

IC 6251 leans into the curve at Saginaw.

IC 6251 leads a taconite train South on the CN Missabe Sub.

With plenty of snow still on the ground in mid-March, an eastbound coal train grinds upgrade around the sweeping curves at Lake Park, MN.

IC 6251 leads a taconite train around a curve at Culver.

The westbound RCPE train from the UP interchange at Mankato kicks up some leaves from the tracks west of Essig, MN.