CN 2112 is all loaded out and a new crew has arrived to keep the ore moving from United Taconite north Fairlane crusher to their processing plant 10 miles away. This mine, some of which is in the... (more)

Idling away on a Saturday night in the CN Biwabik yard. Local law enforcement was approaching and in turn providing a little background lighting. After some questioning it seems there wasn't a ... (more)

St. Croix's new SD40M-2 "Radio Equipped" road units spend a quiet Saturday night parked under the stars. Come Monday morning the two will be moving cars again.

Under the cover of darkness, A northbound T-Bird train comes around the corner and sees the green signal illuminated at Wolf to keep moving on the way back to the Thunderbird Mine north load out p... (more)

Unable to shove the full train all the way through the load out tunnel at Largo due to deep snow on the other side this T-Bird rolls down the Missabe Sub with only 56 loads of rock instead of the... (more)

The original FP7 demonstrator rolls down towards interchange with the BNSF as she teams with DMIR #316 to deliver coal cars back to the BNSF after being stored on the North Shore Scenic Railroad's... (more)

The former DW&P railroad depot near the end of Chestnut Street in Virginia, MN is in the fog from the yet unfrozen Silver Lake on a cold December evening. A nearby detector from a northbound CN f... (more)

Two of the three brand spanking new GE's being tested by Northshore Mining have just departed the mine yard track at Babbitt and are heading out on the 47 mile trip to Silver Bay and the processin... (more)

Erie Mining/LTV Steel owned three Alco C420’s. Number 7222 was delivered as # 602 in 1965 and in 1991 was assigned to the Hoyt Lakes plant site where it worked crude ore trains hauling rock from... (more)

A U-717 with 141 cars is loaded out and ready to depart United Taconite at 2200 hrs. with DM&IR 403 in charge of the trip back south to Proctor. A green glow from the yard signal and the plant it... (more)

With the snow/rain mix under some dark and dreary weather outside, the cab interior of former Erie Mining Company F9(A) 4214 looks a little rough and about the same as the weather outside, the r... (more)

The blue hour on National Train Day with the 4-8-4 Milwaukee Road 261 in Duluth , MN.

A relief crew arrives by van to take these pellet loads back to Proctor, MN while a T-Bird train inches up along side to illuminate the train so the new crew can release the handbrakes before take... (more)

DM&IR 403 has already gone by heading towards Two Harbors with steaming taconite pellets and the F.R.E.D. is following along in it's tracks.

It's almost midnight and a light fog/rain/drizzle mix is in the air as a pair of signals protect the CN Iron Range Sub. at M.P. 66.3. In all types of weather, night or day they do their job.