Running track speed and wasting no time BNSF 8538 rolls across Highway 5 east of Hibbing, MN as the run back down to Allouez, WI is underway with taconite pellet loads from the U.S. Steel Keewatin... (more)

Slowing to take the siding for a meet with a CN container train waiting for them, DMIR 409 and two Dash 8's supply the power for these taconite loads on the way down to Proctor.

YSP51 grinds up the hill towards East Minneapolis with a sharp looking SD60 leading a pair of SD40Ns. The 2184 is classified as an "SD62E" by the UP as it has received an EM2000 micropro... (more)

A pair of patched BN units shove the BN-CP Delivery into the yard at Red Rock. This pair has been together for many months, and can be found working transfers and manifests out of Northtown.

Heading south back to Proctor, MN with limestone empties on a clear winter's day.

Heading south with taconite pellets from U.S. Steel Minntac in B&LE hoppers with CN and KSC power bound for New Orleans for loading in a boat to take to a European steel mill. Global economics.

PRLX 2643, ex-NS SD70M leads empties west back to the mine at Babbitt from the plant at Silver Bay, MN. The very basic very bland and very black PRLX unit is one of two PRLX SD70M loaners NSM is u... (more)

After finishing work at the sugar beet plant in Renville, the Ruebel turn heads east to Glencoe. The water in this ditch provided a reflection shot.

TCW's Ruebel Turn heads east over a creek outside of Hector.

A 1x2 setup oil train from Sapulpa, OK heads westbound on the Morris Sub past the classic grain elevators in Kerkhoven.

A colorful NTWLIN heads into Willmar Yard coming off the Wayzata Sub. In a couple hours they will head south on the Marshall Sub.

Westbound train 299 rolls north along the Detroit Lakes Sub at Henning, MN behind a rebuilt SD9043MAC, now an SD70ACU. They've been around for a little while, but this is the first one of these re... (more)

As a single locomotive waits for congestion ahead at Dilworth Yard to clear, an eastbound unit train of dried distiller's grain approaches Moorhead Jct where it will turn from the former Northern ... (more)

A westbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train operating from Mankato, MN to Aurora, SD passes the former Chicago & North Western depot in Sleepy Eye, MN on a beautiful March evening. The lead loc... (more)

A Twin Cities & Western train gets underway after doing some work at the elevator in North Redwood, MN. The small stone marker includes a plaque honoring Richard W. Sears of Sears & Roebuck fame. ... (more)