Hauling taconite pellets.

A good number of BN's business car fleet was housed at the BN station in Minneapolis between uses back in 1973. Office car Red River poses at the end of a platform on a rainy day in March 1973, fe... (more)

Twin Cities & Western GP38-2 2014 heads up a trio of their power on a transfer job ready to across the Mississippi River in St. Paul after interchanging cars with Union Pacific in South St. Paul. ... (more)

As they climb the grade into Allen Jct. they are also slowing for a meet and greet with an empty coming up from Two Harbors, MN on this cold day.

A nice power set for the T-Bird on this day.

KCS 4585 leads a CPKC freight west along the Mississippi River at Maple Springs, MN, headed for St. Paul. The Wisconsin shoreline and bluffs are in the background. Maple Springs is between Read's ... (more)

AMTK 306 brakes Train 8, The Empire Builder, to a station stop at Red Wing, MN running about an hour late on its Seattle/Portland to Chicago schedule. In less than 5 minutes the train will be on i... (more)

Mixed intermodal/manifest train 146 makes its way east on the Paynesville Sub with a heritage unit on point.

WLMNTW works hard on its way east to Minneapolis with a trio of older EMDs for power.

Proudly leading an ore train like it's done so many times before the Dash 8s took over in the CN ore pool. On this day one of the Dash 8s had a mechanical failure and the old workhorse was called... (more)

A nice afternoon finds an empty ore train moving along.

Kind of a rare event when one of the Dash 8s suffered mechanical failure with DMIR 400 and DMIR 404 being called from Two Harbors to run up to the Minorca mine and "rescue" the train and... (more)

Just about loaded out from the coarse crusher at United Taconite. in the background its counterpart is waiting for them to depart so they can then get into position to load. Both of these Dash8 ... (more)

Beginning to ramp up speed as BNSF 7747 is about to duck under Highway 169 and continue on south with taconite pellets made at the U.S. Steel Keewatin plant on a nice afternoon.

The sun is setting as a trio of tunnelmotors pull a loaded taconite train south through Fairlane as they head back to Proctor, MN.