With tailings piles towering in the background, a pair of IC SD40-3's and a DMIR tunnel motor head south on the Rainy Sub through Virginia, Minnesota and are about to pass under the Route 169 over... (more)

Repainted BLE tunnel motor 903 leads ore empties North through Virginia.

Hot stacks to help relieve the global supply chain issues and shortages move south on the CN Rainy Sub passing through the yard at Virginia, MN.

Up and over the Laurentian Divide, CN 3008 is on the north side while most of the train is still climbing up the south.

Catching the last rays of sun as they head north on the CN Rainy Sub bound for the Minorca mine in a few more miles.

Hauling freight north passing through the CN Virginia yard, CN 3008 leads A439 a daily train from Proctor Yard to Symington (Winnipeg).

Catching the last sliver of sunlight, the late afternoon/early evening trip from Proctor Yard to Symington (Winnipeg) has an interesting power choice in the fact only ore pool engines are moving t... (more)

A mixed freight hits the detector at m.p. 74 on the CN Rainy sub just north of Virginia, MN as they charge north to make the run up and over the Laurentian Divide on the way to Canada.

The Illinois Central heritage unit heads up the daily run from Proctor to Canada seen passing through the former DWP yard at Virginia, MN as they head north on a hot afternoon.

CN 2306 and CN 2621 pull an empty string of oil cans north through the former DWP yard at Virginia, MN and they continue the trip to Canada on National Train Day Eve.

A warm for December day has created quite the thick blanket of fog as UP 5947 charges north thru Virginia, MN with oil cans trailing and picking up speed to climb up and over the Laurentian Divide... (more)

A cold morning finds BLE 906 leading freight from Ranier, MN down the CN Rainy sub cruising through the sun/shadow phase of early morning.

Coming into Virginia, MN the heavy snow falling almost obscures the steaming taconite pellets from the Minorca mine as they begin the trip south for an end trip destination at Two Harbors, MN.

CN 2028 throttles up to make the climb out of Virginia passing through the former DW&P yard along the CN Rainy sub.

US Steel's Oliver Iron Mining Alco RS 3 rests by a shop building in Virginia MN in the summer of 1971. A few years later when I went there This place was filled with Baldwin Cow and calf units. o... (more)