DMIR 193 rests for the winter at LSRM, awaiting the start of the 2023 operating season.

The pair of dash 8s look good in the winter light.

Loads duck under the Rainy Sub at Munger.

A load heads south into Saginaw early in the morning.

Empties head west into Munger late in the day, passing underneath the Rainy Sub, also known as the ex DWP main.

An empty departs Fairlane with a pair of North American stenciled SD40-2Ws.

402 begins its journey downhill, bringing loads to the dock.

A heavy spring snowfall is occurring as this empty limestone train heads back south to Proctor yard after dumping its contents at the U.S. Steel Minntac plant.

Waited about six months to finally have leaves back on the trees and then during the peak of spring color the smoke from Canadian wildfires arrives and obscures the sun. Here's an early morning so... (more)

Limestone loads head north through Culver behind a matching pair of SD40-2Ws. I always like shooting widecab 40s on the point, and getting a matched duo was extra nice. Later that day we'd also se... (more)

Southbound loads swing south on the Missabe Sub in the morning sun.

April 14th marked day 1 of CPKC operations systemwide. Here, 445 heads over the Crow River in Rockford on an extremely rare sunny afternoon in April. Strange to think the CP I've grown up with in ... (more)

RCPE 3422 and company drag a decent size train along behind them. They've past through Lake Benton, and are not far from crossing the South Dakota boarder.

A quartet of RCPE SD40-2s head West near Tyler, MN.

Missabe pumpkin
Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range EMD SD38 No. 222 has made it to Minnesota from sister steel road Elgin, Joliet and Eastern. On September 25, 1994, the orange locomotive wit... (more)