U716 loads at UTAC's Fairlane processing plant with BLE 909-904-906 for power. Once loaded, the 137 car train will head back south to Proctor as U717. There are five B&LE tunnel motors assigned to... (more)

Shoving the containers over the border and into Canada.

With fog and frost in the morning air, CN 3233, the salute to veterans unit, comes across the US/Canada border with southbound freight in tow passing thru the myriad of security features and by th... (more)

With southbound limestone empties U714 holding in the siding, iron ore empties on U716 cruise north through Alborn, Minnesota as they head up the Missabe Subdivision for loading at Fairlane. Once ... (more)

MD&W SW-10 switching boxcars around at the Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) paper mill in International Falls on a fog and frost filled morning mere feet from the Canadian border.

In the late evening hours, CN empty sand train S77251-02 pounds the diamond at Largo, Minnesota as it continues south on the Rainy Subdivision. This junction is the north end of the Missabe Subdiv... (more)

Nothing is coming indicated by the red signals at Iron Jct.

Above average temperatures and little snowfall have made for some fog filled nights as evident by the beams from the signals at Noimi Jct. on the CN Minntac Sub. A CN mixed freight is northbound ... (more)

The sun has now dipped below the horizon and thus brings to the end the first day of 2024 as a trio of BLE motors glide along on the southbound trip back to Proctor with 137 cars of taconite pelle... (more)

IC 6255 makes good time with a taconite train out of Fairlane, MN heading to Proctor and the Duluth ore dock. It's crossing the Whiteface River on the formerly double tracked DM&IR mainline, now s... (more)

CP 8906 leads an eastbound train through the late fall subtle colors along the upper Mississippi River valley at Covill, MN just southeast of Red Wing. The trackage is the former Milwaukee Road ma... (more)

BN 1553, former GN 653, was built in March 1953 and sits at Harrison St., Minneapolis, between assignments in GN's simplified scheme. The loco operated longhand front, and featured a small snowplo... (more)

UP comes down off the Belt and into Hoffman Yard.

BLE 909 leads an empty limestone train south at Munger, MN where the former Missabe mainline from Iron Jct. to Proctor, MN goes under the former DW&P main from Virginia, MN to Nopeming Jct., MN. C... (more)

BN 3024, former CB&Q 624, sits at the former GN Harrison St. roundhouse in Minneapolis, MN. The unit has had its Mars light removed which was becoming pretty common for former Burlington power by ... (more)