The night crew at the CTRR ride their long trusted steed, this SW1 built in 1941, out of the yard and past the Northeastern Saloon, (which displays an original hand written liquor license dated 1... (more)

Working in a fog. Under the cover of a thick fog the dayshift crew of the Cloquet Terminal Railroad, aboard the ex-D&NE #35 SW1000 built in 1967, goes about moving log loads closer to the plant wh... (more)

After a trip to Hinckley, MN to pick up a 30 car BNSF transfer of grain loads, the GP9 duo from the St. Croix Valley RR roll south down the former NP Skally Line about to cross over the Snake Rive... (more)

It's a cold, early morning as an empty 135 car train rounds the curve and enters Biwabik while on the way north to the U.S. Steel Minntac in Mountain Iron where they will load taconite pellets and... (more)

On a cold January day the Grand Rapids Local crew makes a stop in Cloquet to drop off cars for interchange with the Cloquet Terminal Railroad who will then deliver and work the large Sappi Paper p... (more)

A nice Christmas present to myself was catching this move by the North Shore Scenic Railroad crew using DM&IR 316 and DM&IR 193 to bring empty BNSF coal hoppers up the scenic railroad line for win... (more)

The last remaining SD40-3 in Missabe colors looks pretty good even if it's a cold early morning shortly before sunrise. They are coming off the Iron Range Sub and will be roughly a half hour from... (more)

Snow is falling and darkness seems to come early today but the taconite moves no matter what. The crew has finished loading 165 cars and is pulling out of United Taconite bound for Proctor and th... (more)

The golden rays of the morning sun greet the crew aboard CN 2107 as they enter United Taconite's Fairlane processing plant with rock from the mine.

The crew begins to pull and gets under way after traffic on the main has cleared. These freshly made steaming taconite pellets will eventually make their way all the way to Mexico from their origi... (more)

Waiting to depart. Fresh made taconite pellets bound for Mexico steam away on a early cool, crisp morning at the United Taconite facility on Minnesota's Iron Range. The crew (and train) arrived i... (more)

The smoke from the 100,000 acre Pigami Creek wilfire in the BWCA casts a yellow glow in the air as the sun starts it's accent to begin a new day while the DM&IR 403 leads 136 empty ore cars north... (more)

Four old GE's from the Minnesota Commercial Railroad thunder through the BNSF intermodal yard at Midway with a 90 car sand train for interchange with the BNSF in St. Paul where it will in turn hea... (more)

The new job on the former Missabe is the Biwabik Switch. Here the crew gets ready to leave Biwabik Yard with fifty-six empties under the cover of an early morning fog. The crew will head to Minn... (more)

When railfans come from far away to shoot the NSM railroad this is the shot they all want to leave with. Taken from the appropriately named "Railfan Rock" high above the NSM mainline. Three SD40... (more)