Pellets from the Minorca mine (the pit is coincidently located behind the train about a mile but the processing plant is located north of Virginia, MN off the CN Rainy sub about an hour behind the... (more)

After spending the better part of daylight dumping limestone at U.S. Steel Minntac it's now time to head back south to Proctor yard.

Spring brown season is in full display but the sun was out and a train was moving pellets south on the CN Missabe sub.

A nice quiet wait in anticipation of a train coming into view. Then the train comes around the bend and gets closer and closer rising and falling along the hills and sags of the mainline. Pretty s... (more)

Coming back from Two Harbors, MN passing through the old mine dumps of past mining days here at Gilbert, MN.

How quickly things change, with all the recent retiring and scrapping of units you’d be hard pressed to find even a basic set of power like this kicking around today. Here the daily westbound Ka... (more)

Coming up from Two Harbors crossing over the CN Rainy sub at Ramshaw continuing the trek north for loading at U.S. Steel Minntac.

Just south of Manchester, a GE duo of C40-8 and B36-7 drag a southbound over Pine Mountain.

A snowy day across the landscape as CN 2111 and CN 2107 pull taconite loads south on the CN Missabe sub heading to the processing plant.

A very cold morning as steaming pellets from U.S. Steel Minntac glide across the frozen landscape behind a trio of Dash 8's heading for Two Harbors, MN.

"FPCH at Jenna Concrete"

On the evening of June 2, 2021, Providence & Worcester's "FPCH" heads east past Jenna Concrete Corporation on the CSX running track next to Amtrak's Hell Gat... (more)

It's a gloomy late fall day across northern Minnesota as this empty from Two Harbors, MN heads north up the CN Iron Range sub for a date with the west loadout pocket at U.S. Steel Minntac before r... (more)

Pulling out of United Taconite with 138 fully loaded ore cars bound for Proctor, MN.

Rare Daylight Appearance. Genesse & Wyoming/Providence & Worcester Railroad's CHFP (Cedar Hill, Connecticut-Fresh Pond, Queens, New York) is normally a nocturnal run. But on Tuesday, June 1, 2021,... (more)

Ex-Conrail C40-8 8306, which was built as Conrail 6034 in March, 1989, hustles a Norfolk Southern intermodal train east through South Plainfield, NJ on the "shared assets" portion of the... (more)