Evidence of some work on the Excel Energy transmission lines sits nearby as an eastbound train slowly makes its way along the Minnesota Prairie Line east of Franklin, MN on a breezy but mild Febru... (more)

BNSF 6903 heads east in St. Paul with a bald eagle soaring above.

AMTK 311 leads the eastbound Empire Builder in Minneapolis

CN EMD SD40-3 6264 leads limestone loads north at Munger.

A trio of C40-8's lead a steaming train of taconite loads on the U789 as it rounds the bend coming in to Biwabik, Minnesota and heads towards Two Harbors. This location was once the junction of an... (more)

U717 comes around the S curve at Culver, MN with DMIR 406 in the lead.

Coming up from Proctor to load at United Taconite before returning back to Proctor and all the while not seeing much but the fog covered landscape.

Moving along under the cover of fog.

The crew has finished loading 145 ore cars up at Minntac has called for signals to depart and head back towards Two Harbors. RTC has given them the lights to proceed.

A former BN SD70MAC leads the way on the Northern Transcon's hottest Z train, as they begin their approach to the Twin Cities, with a Dash 9 in second place in the Heritage 1 scheme, making this t... (more)

YSPBN pulls into East Minneapolis with two SD40Ns and an SD60M for power. Once an important yard for the C&NW, East Minneapolis' footprint and role has been greatly reduced over the years. Althoug... (more)

After completing their work at Keenan yard, CN 5485 has reassembled the train and starts to pull on Main 1 and thus starting the race to the end of the double track section on the CN Missabe sub a... (more)

A long empty all-rail taconite train slows for the upcoming stop before shoving into Keenan yard where the train will be split and staged until their load time at the U.S. Steel Minntac plant beco... (more)

In some of the last sunlight of a nice February evening, a lengthy southbound BNSF manifest claws its way to the top of the grade from Marshall to Florence, MN. A cloud bank was moving in, so the ... (more)

After waiting for a northbound to clear into the siding, a southbound manifest with a CSX AC4400 rebuild on the point gets underway again. A Ferromex SD70ACe is the DPU of the northbound. That H2 ... (more)