With a load of steaming taconite pellets fresh from the Fairlane Taconite plant in tow, a pair of SD40T-3's and a C40-8 hustle U717 across the Cloquet River in Burnett, Minnesota and head towards ... (more)

A pair of GE's power CN intermodal Q199 as it cruises across the Oliver Bridges and crosses the state line into New Duluth, Minnesota as it heads towards the climb up Steelton Hill. After crossing... (more)

Over under pass at Munger Minnesota - This was close to a three second/3 car difference to perfect. Under was a CN Intermodal and over was CN mixed freight.

CP 7056 leads train 240 across the Red Lake River in Thief River Falls with extra grain traffic, CPKC 346, along for the ride down the Detroit Lakes Subdivision mainline.

The UP-CP transfer departs State Street as they head out to Dunn with their delivery for CP St. Paul Yard. The critter third out is RSSX 103, a Railserve LEAF destined for Canpotex in Saskatchewan... (more)

Frack sand hoppers in tow on the Skally Line. The St. Scroix Valley operates on one of three short sections of the Northern Pacific's Skally Line. The other two: one small stretch in Minneapolis; ... (more)

A couple autumns ago, BNSF's Lincoln to Northtown manifest crosses Washington Creek in Dassel, trailing 3rd is a GP7, NPR 1752.

Illinois Central 6256, an SD40-3 is shoving a loaded taconite pellet train onto the 1918-built Dock 6. This locomotive was built by GM Electro-Motive Division in LaGrange, Illinois in November 197... (more)

CP 7020, one of five military units, leads CPKC train 243 over the Crow River in Rockford, with an NS dash 9 along for the ride as well. Down below, some local fisherman try their luck. Since Memo... (more)

After landing at Minneapolis-Saint Paul we drove directly to Duluth to see what would be running for the afternoon. A friend told us that there was an empty ore train coming off Dock 6, and we wer... (more)

When I heard the CP’s Waseca Local blowing for the at-grade street crossings in Rochester I dropped everything and took up the chase. However chasing the eastbound local involves crossing throug... (more)

Coal loads head east over the Gull River on a very nice April afternoon. I've always wanted a shot here and today was finally the day.

Built in 1893 by the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway, the bridge over the Kettle River hosts trains on the BNSF Hinckley Subdivision, including foreign run thru trains such as this CP 250... (more)

Cruising back to their home yard at Kelly Lake after switching loads of bentonite clay for these empties at the Minorca mine, the namesake local rumbles across the steel trestle over Dempsey Creek... (more)

Canadian Pacific's Shoreham Transfer Job H17 rolls west behind a pair of GP20C-ECO's as it crosses over the Mississippi River on the Paynesville Subdivision. The train is heading back towards Humb... (more)