Minnesota Northern's Warroad Local job clears the first interlocking signal for the CP-BNSF diamond at Erskine near Badger Lake. Today's train has two locomotives running DP on the rear making th... (more)

Minnesota Northern's Warroad Local job cruises south of Brooks towards Erskine at the increased 49mph track speed. U.S. Highway 59 similarly had its posted speed limit increased from 55 to 60mph ... (more)

Short line carrier Minnesota Northern takes advantage that the leasing company, Independent Locomotive Service (ILSX), is a major part-owner of the company. Minnesota Northern has a roster of fou... (more)

The Minnesota Northern Warroad Local with a third locomotive, ILSX 1328, and a string of boxcars heads out of Thief River Falls over the Red Lake River bound for Crookston via Erskine.

Independent Locomotive Service #1340 wobbles its way south from Dakota Junction through the west side of Thief River Falls over the jointed rail of the southern Warroad subdivision. The locomotiv... (more)

Monster Minnesota Northern train.....with six locomotives. The Warroad local makes one last connection at the Farmers Co-Op Grain & Seed elevator before rolling down the Detroit Lakes subdivision... (more)

The Minnesota Northern Warroad Local arrives into Thief River Falls with ILSX 1340 on the back end of the train with the job of holding the EOT device. This week's switching job will be extra bus... (more)

It may not appear like a typical Minnesota Northern Railroad train, but ILSX 1340 and HLLX 6964 are in charge of taking this MNN Warroad Local back to Crookston, and exercising MNN's trackage righ... (more)

In and amongst mostly cloudy weather, Christmas Eve morning 2011 has some pleasant sunshine shining on one of the trio of ex-KCS locomotives sitting on the old Great Northern wye that led to the G... (more)