Maroon and gold SW1 1378 moves loaded grain cars from Elevator M on a code blue afternoon. The shuttered lake vessel American Victory hasn't sailed since 2008 and its future is uncertain at best. ... (more)

A pair of ILSX GP35s sit stored in the Elk Grove yard.

This SW1 is working the ConAgra Elevator M on Superior's East End "Old Town" waterfront on a cold and windy late fall afternoon.

Short line carrier Minnesota Northern takes advantage that the leasing company, Independent Locomotive Service (ILSX), is a major part-owner of the company. Minnesota Northern has a roster of fou... (more)

The Minnesota Northern Warroad Local with a third locomotive, ILSX 1328, and a string of boxcars heads out of Thief River Falls over the Red Lake River bound for Crookston via Erskine.

Independent Locomotive Service #1340 wobbles its way south from Dakota Junction through the west side of Thief River Falls over the jointed rail of the southern Warroad subdivision. The locomotiv... (more)

New plow...flex coil truck...now some new paint...eventually. ILSX 917 still wears Independent Locomotive Leasing, evidence of very early Independent Locomotive Service operations which wa... (more)

Independent Locomotive Service rolled out a new locomotive from the Holt shops, a former BNSF SD40-2, renumbered ILSX 1330. Its first order of business was to sort out the St. Hilaire portion of ... (more)

The switch crew at the old Daisy Flour Mill, now a storage facility, heads back to the barn to tie up after cleaning all the switches after the previous days blizzard. The backdrop is the 1000' sh... (more)

Oof....the SW1 leased by Malt One, a grain elevator within the CPR Shoreham Yard, is looking pretty rough. This thing is commonly seen from the popular railfan hangout at station sign University,... (more)

Monster Minnesota Northern train.....with six locomotives. The Warroad local makes one last connection at the Farmers Co-Op Grain & Seed elevator before rolling down the Detroit Lakes subdivision... (more)

The Independent Locomotive Service Holt shop scene includes works in progress and current ILSX units. First in line is former BNSF/HLLX 6964 which was on the Minnesota Northern the previous week,... (more)

The local Farmers Cooperative elevator switcher gets called to load five hoppers brought in fresh off of the Minnesota Northern Warroad Local. This SW7 let its voice be heard as it blared its one... (more)

The Minnesota Northern Warroad Local arrives into Thief River Falls with ILSX 1340 on the back end of the train with the job of holding the EOT device. This week's switching job will be extra bus... (more)

It may not appear like a typical Minnesota Northern Railroad train, but ILSX 1340 and HLLX 6964 are in charge of taking this MNN Warroad Local back to Crookston, and exercising MNN's trackage righ... (more)