After leaving Ranier in the early morning hours, CN 5448 gets to Virginia and takes the siding for a rolling meet.

Early morning finds CN 5419 pulling through Virginia and track speed while a CN MOW crew has a job briefing and a Loram work train gets fired up for the day.

Photographer unknown. From my collection. A cooperative effort?. Put rounded ends on this unit and you'd have a Canadian RS-10 or RS-18 what with the Canadian trucks and dynamic brakes in the s... (more)

After a meet with an empty coke train that was heading south, IC 6260 pulls off the siding in the former DWP yard at Virginia to continue north for the Minorca mine with limestone loads.

Running up the CN Rainy Sub for Ranier, MN.

Empty coke train from Thunder Bay traveling down the CN Rainy Sub descending the south side of the Laurentian Divide heading back to Rosemont, MN.

A few minutes after the Q197, here comes UP, with NS assisting, led B783 through Virginia as a nice summer day continues.

Stacks all the way back as far as the eye can see as they run the main through the former DW&P yard at Virginia, MN.

CN's Elgin Joliet & Eastern Heritage Unit, Canadian National 3023, pulling hard up the south side of the Laurentian Divide about to crest the hill here at m.p. 78 on the CN Rainy sub with freight ... (more)

The sun is burning through some early morning fog as L568 rumbles along.

A pair of SD60's rip north at track speed with freight from Proctor yard and Keenan yard for Ranier, MN.

After departing the Minorca mine and dropping down the southside of the Laurentian Divide, CN 2031 next prepares for a meet at the former DW&P yard at Virginia before continuing on towards Two Har... (more)

Loaded iron ore train from the Minorca mine to Two Harbors, MN slowly creeps down the siding at Virginia while a loaded sand train is full throttle gaining speed and momentum about to start the cl... (more)

Burning diesel fuel to make the climb up and over the Laurentian Divide in a few miles, KCS 4185 pulls CN train A439 through Virginia, MN on a nice afternoon.

CN 2039 roars north with ore empties as a ground level railfan has just captured the action.