Parked on a small siding behind Northern Pride Inc., a turkey processing facility, is one of Loram's L-Series light rail grinders - LRG 24. This particular set of grinding machinery is equiped wit... (more)

SOO 4419 & 4444 maneuver BGSX - Strata Corporation hoppers (Bradshaw Gravel Supply Inc.) fresh off the Northern Plains Railroad bound for re-filling in Trail or Tilden Jct., MN at their respective... (more)

On a very nice summer day it is very nice to see 3 CP SD40-2's all with the packman-style livery.

Expecting a cut of boxcars headed for St. Hilaire behind this locomotive, 1343 sits alone at Dakota Junction. This locomotive has been a recent regular on the MNN Warroad Subdivision. Photo from... (more)

The evening sun on a pretty spectacular summer day in northwestern Minnesota brings out some brilliant color in not only the sky and vegetation, but in Minnesota Northern's GP10 #1380 seen here li... (more)

Viewed from the northeast side of the bridge, a shiny pair of GEVOs rolls northward across the Red Lake River and into the "TR Falls" yard.

A lone AC44 leaser fronts a southbound freight across the Red Lake River as it heads out of the yard.

CP 8846 and its train in tow sit under dramatic partly cloudy skies. Trains on the Noyes/Detroit Lakes Subdivisions have increased due to flooding in North Dakota.

During a day of sporadic rain storms, a rainbow popped up east of Thief River Falls providing a nice backdrop for the resident switching power for the Farmers Co-Op Grain & Seed elevator, now comp... (more)

After fetching Strata Corporation hoppers at Nora St. from the Canadian Pacific, the NPR 5556 leads the turn across the bridge over the Red Lake River.

Station sign Thief River Falls...pretty anti-climactic...two GP40's sit in the yard as local power on a quiet Easter 2011 weekend. Along the Canadian Pacific right-of-way are two of the city's gr... (more)

After being freshly refueled, two bright red Soo Line SD60's face north over the Easter holiday weekend with a short set of cars in tow.

This locomotive has had quite the career in the last year, making appearances in Eveleth, MN working at Laurentian Aggregates and in Superior, WI for Murphy Oil. Now, in April it is only a few mi... (more)

The weekly Warroad local sits north of Thief River Falls on a pleasant summer evening.

In addition to the Independent Locomotive Service's eclectic fleet of locomotives, ILSX 1343, a snoot-nose SD40-2 tunnel motor, just got added into the mix. This former Union Pacific locomotive a... (more)