A cold early morning departure has some steam coming off the new pellets as they descend down the hill from the Minntac taconite plant.

A pair of Northfolk Southern units waiting for signal by Highway 280 in St. Paul.

The limestone cliffs of Dayton's bluff tower over TCWR 2016 in St. Paul.

Working its way toward Minneapolis with some grain loads from North Redwood, an eastbound train crosses Sulphur Lake near the former Minneapolis & St Louis Railway division point of Morton, MN. It... (more)

An eastbound train rolls along the Minnesota Prairie Line between Fairfax and Gibbon. The vast and fertile farmland of west central Minnesota would normally be covered in a blanket of deep snow at... (more)

Evidence of some work on the Excel Energy transmission lines sits nearby as an eastbound train slowly makes its way along the Minnesota Prairie Line east of Franklin, MN on a breezy but mild Febru... (more)

BNSF 6903 heads east in St. Paul with a bald eagle soaring above.

AMTK 311 leads the eastbound Empire Builder in Minneapolis

CN EMD SD40-3 6264 leads limestone loads north at Munger.

A trio of C40-8's lead a steaming train of taconite loads on the U789 as it rounds the bend coming in to Biwabik, Minnesota and heads towards Two Harbors. This location was once the junction of an... (more)

U717 comes around the S curve at Culver, MN with DMIR 406 in the lead.

Coming up from Proctor to load at United Taconite before returning back to Proctor and all the while not seeing much but the fog covered landscape.

Moving along under the cover of fog.

The crew has finished loading 145 ore cars up at Minntac has called for signals to depart and head back towards Two Harbors. RTC has given them the lights to proceed.

A former BN SD70MAC leads the way on the Northern Transcon's hottest Z train, as they begin their approach to the Twin Cities, with a Dash 9 in second place in the Heritage 1 scheme, making this t... (more)