CPKC Railway is out and running around Minnesota with it's 2023 Holiday Train. Today, it's first show was scheduled for 1PM in Rochester. I headed east following the tracks with a plan to go east ... (more)

BLE 909 rolls an empty limestone train south between Iron Jct. & Keenan Jct. passing under highway 37. BLE 909 was built as an SD45T-2 in February 1973 as SSW 6890. BLE was acquired by the CN and ... (more)

With a pair of GP15-1's on the point wearing the railroad's BN inspired paint scheme, the Northern Lines Railway's local is working the propane facility in Rockville, Minnesota to spot one cut and... (more)

With a load of steaming taconite pellets fresh from the Fairlane Taconite plant in tow, a pair of SD40T-3's and a C40-8 hustle U717 across the Cloquet River in Burnett, Minnesota and head towards ... (more)

Fog has settled over the Twin Ports region on the morning of June 13, 2016 as a railroader walks back to the Canadian National locomotive facility at Proctor, Minnesota, passing a line up of power... (more)

A trio of cabooses bring up the rear of a westbound BN freight rolling through Newport, MN on its last lap into the Twin Cities. BN 10708, a modern extended vision caboose is preceded by two forme... (more)

On the first weekend of December, the small town of Knife River, Minnesota holds its Julebyen Festival, full of Scandinavian Christmas crafts, food, music, and games. The North Shore Scenic Railro... (more)

A pair of GE's power CN intermodal Q199 as it cruises across the Oliver Bridges and crosses the state line into New Duluth, Minnesota as it heads towards the climb up Steelton Hill. After crossing... (more)

The daily St. Paul to Kansas City freight rounds the curve at Reno on the CPKC Marquette Sub. This is about the only place I saw north of Harpers where water was a problem. The CP dump rock thru h... (more)

CN 2041 leads a trio of GE's on an empty ore train arriving at Minntac from Two Harbors (ore dock). This loco was built as CNW 8542 in August 1990 and became UP 9064. C&NW ordered these GE's with ... (more)

BN 9812 features a unique nose door twin sealed beam headlight as well as BN's passenger scheme at Minneapolis. The unit is former NP 7010D, built late in the F unit era in March 1956. It also use... (more)

This shot shows the same train, at nearly the same spot, on the same day as my RailPictures image #844151. The difference is that the train is about 200’ closer to the photographer and has a muc... (more)

A trio of BLE motors pull out of UTAC for the trip south down the Missabe sub to Proctor.

About 15,000 tons of taconite pellets spaced out in 138 ore cars pulled by three SD40-3s cruise down the CN Missabe Sub near Saginaw as they roll towards Proctor yard.

Limestone loads pass a loaded ore train that's waiting to be dumped at CN's Dock 6 before attacking Proctor Hill.