Proudly leading an ore train like it's done so many times before the Dash 8s took over in the CN ore pool. On this day one of the Dash 8s had a mechanical failure and the old workhorse was called... (more)
A nice afternoon finds an empty ore train moving along.
Kind of a rare event when one of the Dash 8s suffered mechanical failure with DMIR 400 and DMIR 404 being called from Two Harbors to run up to the Minorca mine and "rescue" the train and... (more)
Just about loaded out from the coarse crusher at United Taconite. in the background its counterpart is waiting for them to depart so they can then get into position to load. Both of these Dash8 ... (more)
Beginning to ramp up speed as BNSF 7747 is about to duck under Highway 169 and continue on south with taconite pellets made at the U.S. Steel Keewatin plant on a nice afternoon.
The sun is setting as a trio of tunnelmotors pull a loaded taconite train south through Fairlane as they head back to Proctor, MN.
Three NP passenger locomotives F7A 6511A, F9B 6701B and F7A 6501A has just uncoupled from the passenger cars at St. Paul Union Depot on April 11, 1968. Photo by RR Wallin, from my collection. ... (more)
The Aberdeen local heads west through the Minnesota River valley on the former Milwaukee Road mainline.
BNSF's business train heads east on the Wayzata Sub as sunset nears on Halloween.
A pair of H1 geeps lead the Willmar east local through Cokato on Halloween.
A nice surprise as a matching pair of H1 GP38-2s pull the Willmar East local out of Waverly on an oddly snowy Halloween. Snowfall from the previous night remained throughout the day.
Frost is covering everything as a trio of BLE tunnelmotors come down from Minntac with empty limestone side dumps as they head back to Proctor yard.
The early morning cold is everywhere as the sun comes up while BLE 900 is rolling south back to Proctor yard with steaming taconite pellets.
The Keenan switch job pulling a ballast undercutting and cleaning machine from the small yard at Mountain Iron and bringing it back to Keenan yard.
Veteran Missabe tunnelmotors pulling vintage DMIR ore cars in the winter on Minnesota's Iron Range.
