When CN started to bring in replacement power on the former Missabe, this unit was the first to come in and that was back in 2004. Still going strong in 2010, the CN 6021 rolls thru some early mo... (more)

Go towards the light! With frost on the ties and vegitation and fog in the air, a matched trio of SD40-3's head east into the sun, which has just cracked the horizon on a crisp fall morning. Th... (more)

A mere 15 miles off pavement and down a logging road into the woods of northern Minnesota you will come across the Skibo Road crossing at M.P. 43 on the NSM RR. Rumor had it this was the most rem... (more)

A leased ex-ATSF GP20 painted black with yellow stripes is used to switch grain cars around at an impressive looking grain elevator that is actually owned by BNSF but leased to General Mills. I'm... (more)

I think I can. I think I can. SOO 2719 huffs and puffs some serious black smoke while climbing out of Two Harbors. They are just underway on the return trip back to Duluth and home at the Depot.

SOO 2719 pulls over Scenic Highway 61 and begins to cause a few brake locks by the cars below who start looking at a magnificant piece a machinery pass by.

Memories. The Cliffs Erie F9's and Taconite Harbor ore dock. In the operations heyday this pellet train with four Electro Motive Division F9 1750 HP locomotives would travel the 74 miles from th... (more)

UH That'll Do! The sometimes not so glamorous side of railroading and some of the things that can happen. Here is what happens when the load out chute of a taconite pellet bin fails to close dur... (more)

DM&IR 407 and two other SD40-3's lead steaming pellets from Minntac southward through Biwabik on their way towards Two Harbors. No really!

After leaving the former DM&IR depot in Two Harbors, the NARCOA (North American Rail Car Operators Association) speeders head down the North Shore Scenic Railroad along Lake Superior towards the d... (more)

A little off the top for the Missabe Subdivision Main Two is evident by the metal shavings covering the taconite pellets and ballast rock and grinding marks on the railhead after the passing of th... (more)

A pair of bright orange switchers await another assignment at BNSF's Rice's Point Yard in Duluth, MN as thick fog rolls in off Lake Superior. Look Wisconsin is gone!

One of the CHS switchers takes a break from moving grain cars into and out of the large Cenex Harvest States elevator in Superior, WI.

The Proctor Road Switch crew shoves loads of taconite pellets out on the dock as a ship takes on the cargo. Across the bay, a BNSF coal train dumps their loads at the MERC facility. Business is ... (more)

With the storm clouds dissipating and the warm glow a hot and humid summer afternoon becoming evident, DM&IR 403 rolls past the old boarded up DM&IR Saginaw Depot with loads from United Taconite b... (more)