With the first meet on their trip south complete, BLE 903 gets rolling towards track speed again coming off the siding at Kelsey.

CN 2040 comes at track speed down the main past a whole lot of boxcars in storage here at Biwabik. In its heyday, this yard would have been full of ore cars and switch jobs when the natural ore m... (more)

After finishing their work at Keenan yard, CN 5419 begins to pull south for Proctor as L567 comes to a stop in the fog preparing to do its work at Keenan.

Cutting through the morning fog as the Dash 8s and 145 ore cars travel north on the CN Iron Range Sub.

NTWLAU heads west on the Wayzata Sub with some nice fall foliage.

The Willmar to Northtown manifest heads east on the Wayzata Sub with a trio of older EMDs.

CN 2000 splits the signals at Fairbanks, Minnesota on its way to the ore dock at Two Harbors with a load of hot, steaming Taconite pellets. The pellets originated as raw ore at the Minntac Mine be... (more)

There's no operator or agent in the window to greet trains, such as this single locomotive moving westbound, but at least the former Minneapolis & St Louis Railway depot still stands in Fairfax, M... (more)

A BNSF Intermodal Train departs the Twin Cities under a cool winter sunset. An H1 Dash 9 pair running 1x1 leads the train into the cold night ahead towards LaCrosse Wisconsin.

The Grand Rapids is about to cross under Minnesota State Highway 23 as the train makes its way towards Superior, WI.

Four EMDs lead a short mixed freight into the setting sun near Biwabik.

Heading back to Proctor on a late fall afternoon after delivering limestone loads to the Minorca mine earlier in the day.

The peak of colored leaves has come and is now gone across NE Minnesota. On this day near the peak, CN 2040 called RTC to depart Minntac only to come down and around the corner in full sun and th... (more)

A trio of EMDs hustle South with a taconite load out of the Fairlane Processing Facility.

The 3018 one of Great Northern GP35s rests between assignments at Minneapolis on July 28, 1965. The major identifying feature between the first and second GP35 orders was that the first group was... (more)