Snow tapers off for the afternoon as BLE 903 heads south down the CN Missabe Sub for home at Proctor yard.

2CWR rounds Lake Isabelle in Hastings shortly after crossing over the Mississippi River.

Rarely in the world of 2023 super trains, do 2 train fit in a siding enough that the opposing train can pass by on greens. On the CN's Iron Range, the possibility is alittle more possible with the... (more)

With a couple trains tucked away at Kelsey, this loaded ore train makes good time heading back to Proctor from the Fairlane Plant. The train is bound for Proctor, and eventually the Duluth Docks a... (more)

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.