A 50-car limestone train is heading to the Minorca Mine near Virginia. The train works north on the Missabe Sub out of Proctor with 3 older EMDs. The train passes over the Cloquet River Bridge nea... (more)

Rounding the curve onto the CN Iron Range sub with taconite pellets from the Minorca mine being led by two former Missabe SD40-3s and a trio of former CNW Dash 8s with 145 cars in tow for Two Harb... (more)

A quiet night with the Northern Lights doing their thing in the sky and the signal at S. Fairlane doing its thing.

The local job that runs from Two Harbors to CN's Keenan yard today has three SD9043MACs in tow that were on lease to Northshore Mining's RR while they waited for their SD70ACes to arrive to be use... (more)

CP 2224 and 2200 bring empty hoppers east along 110 plus year old rail on the Plummer Line - the original Soo Line Thief River Falls to Duluth mainline. In reality, the railroad split from the ma... (more)

With a Bessemer & Lake Erie tunnel motor and a CN Anniversary Dash 8 on the point, CN U731 rounds the bend as it rolls through Iron Junction, Minnesota and heads towards the Fairlane Taconite Plan... (more)

Two SD40-2s approach Lake City with a loaded continuous welded rail train.

The Minnesota Transporation Museum's "Great Northern 325" on a photo passenger special. GN 325 is a 1966 EMD, for the car aficionado, that's a '57 Desoto Adventurer. The GN 325 was r... (more)

The local job that runs from Two Harbors to CN's Keenan yard today has three SD9043MACs in tow that were on lease to Northshore Mining's RR while they waited for their SD70ACes to arrive to be use... (more)

After heading out earlier in the day, IC 3110 and 3123 head back to Keenan Yard after switching loads for these empties at a local explosives plant.

A westbound freight moves the out of Pigs Eye. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

The CN ran a couple limestone trains out of Proctor around lunchtime this day. One was bound for Fairlane and one was bound for Minorca. These trains ended up running both directions back to back!... (more)

The CP sure has been good to us lately when we have been out. Here is a massive 146 car 260 rolls down the Mississippi River in the late evening light. The train curves around thru Reno with one o... (more)

The St. Paul to Kansas City daily freight train had some unusual motors in the consist. A pair of CP hydrogen locomotives are dead in tow. Each locomotive is painted in a unique paint scheme for t... (more)

Canadian Pacific Kansas City runs a local freight to Rochester, MN several days a week. The local originates at the yard in Waseca, MN and runs east towards Winona, MN as far and as often as busin... (more)