DMIR SD40-3 405 leads a mega-lash North into Iron Junction on the Two Harbors MRF.

Rochester and Southern train RS-1 pulls past the station in Silver Springs and prepares to enter the NS siding. After the rear of the train is clear of the switch, they will shove back into the in... (more)

The end of a train of ore empties is just clearing as the North Shore Mining's Tailings Train rounds the sweeping curve behind SD40-3 653 as it rolls along Airport Road in Beaver Bay, Minnesota an... (more)

After the conductor cleaned out the switches, the Rochester & Southern's RS-1 eases across the connecting track between the R&S Main Line and the NS Southern Tier with a long train of interchange ... (more)

CN's Miscellaneous Road Freight led by DMIR 405, nears Keenan just south of Iron Junction, MN. This trackage is the former DM&IR mainline south from the Mesabi Iron Range to Duluth. CN also uses t... (more)

CN's Miscellaneous Road Freight led by DMIR 405, an SD40-3, i.e., a rebuilt SD45-2T, makes good time west of Biwabik near Gilbert, MN as it heads from Two Harbors to Keenan Yard. Ample power for i... (more)

SD40-3 #4332 crosses the Little Manatee River with local O823 back to Tampa Yeoman Yard

CSX local from Tampa Yeoman Yard

The KCS Gulfport Local is at Hattiesburg. The job had cool set of 4-SD40's. Here the job doubles up to head back to Gulfport at the south end of the CN's Hattiesburg Yard. Unfortunately for us the... (more)

The KCS Gulfport Local is at Hattiesburg. The job had cool set of 4-SD40's. Here the job switches ends after yarding their inbound train. The CN local grabs the KCS train and begins trashing it ou... (more)

A quartet of EMD's on the Rochester & Southern's RS-1 shove their train of interchange cars down the siding at Silver Springs, New York on the NS Southern Tier Line where they will leave the cars.... (more)

CN train L557 pulls onto home rails passing the old C&IM Pekin depot behind all IC locomotives. This scene would have been fairly commonplace 25 years ago, but not in 2022.

Come for the nice selection of EMD's still operating across CN's ore roads in NE Minnesota, stay for the weather.