With snow falling, CN 2018 splits the new still not in use signals at the small location know as Allen Jct. MN which is roughly the half way point on the return trip back to Two Harbors on the CN ... (more)

With snow falling, empties meet loads at Gilbert, MN on the CN Iron Range sub.

As the snow falls, CN 2018 continues the southbound leg of the trip passing through the yard at Biwabik with a destination back to the yard at Two Harbors, MN.

Snow falling and the hum of steel wheels on the rails.

A trio of GE's ply the unseen rails pulling taconite loads as snow continues to fall across Minnesota's Iron Range.

Looking like a model on a well-scenicked model railroad, UP 9108 West approaches the east portal of tunnel 9 deep in the Feather River Canyon. Rock slides in this area are common, and UP routinely... (more)

View from the former Southern Asheville - Salisbury line. The CSX train has come down the Blue Ridge mountains in the distance.

A fourth paint scheme the "Stealth" was tried by CSXT in 1989. In an attempt at simplicity, the first new GE Dash 8-40C's arrived with a solid gray body with blue lettering and under b... (more)

A trio of GE's lead 145 ore cars down the CN Minntac Sub and will transition onto the CN Missabe at Wolf shortly up ahead only to transition onto the CN Iron Range Sub at Iron Jct. to head to Two ... (more)

CN 2133 meets an IC repaint under ominous-looking clouds at Markham Yard. Shot from Harwood Avenue in Homewood.

CSXT 7638 and CSXT 8525 lead an empty autorack train West past the Junction.

New C&NW C40-8 8524 leads a loaded coal train out of the Powder River Basin on August 28, 1989.

L544 has just picked up a cut of loaded log cars at Zellar Excavating and the single unit does a smokey burnout as they start the pull westbound for Gladstone with loads of logs and center beams.

CSX 7634 hammers the CN/GT crossing in Wellsboro, IN in May of 2004.

The GE power is starting to take hold on the Iron Range. A trio of Dash-8s can be seen here leading hot taconite loads from Minntac south out of Mountain Iron at the beginning of their journey ... (more)