Tunnel motor #1343 leads the Warroad local back to Crookston via trackage rights on the CP from Dakota Junction to Erskine, then on BNSF from Erskine and west.

Minnesota Northern's ILSX 1343 waits for its crew on its rails at Dakota Junction with a cut of grain hoppers and boxcars bound for the businesses at the end of line at St. Hilaire, MN (MNN Warroa... (more)

Expecting a cut of boxcars headed for St. Hilaire behind this locomotive, 1343 sits alone at Dakota Junction. This locomotive has been a recent regular on the MNN Warroad Subdivision. Photo from... (more)

Old, meet new. Former UP 2906 is now part of Minnesota Northern's fleet of power and is preparing the Warroad Local as old timers MNN 1383, ILSX 1381, and MNN 1380 look on.

In addition to the Independent Locomotive Service's eclectic fleet of locomotives, ILSX 1343, a snoot-nose SD40-2 tunnel motor, just got added into the mix. This former Union Pacific locomotive a... (more)