The former LS&I #18 storms upgrade with the gorgeous Rocky Mountains looming in the background.

The sun is setting literally and figuratively on these old Milwaukee Road units. Taken with permission.

A nice looking howitzer serves as a nice memorial to the men and woman of our armed forces as the SCRY crew goes about their morning business. Note that these engines are now RADIO EQUIPPED!

Shortline railroading at its finest. After switching out the plant in Rush City, the crew ties down the engines and gets to work helping the Section Crew. The SCXY has grown enough to where a dies... (more)

Getting flipped the bird on the T-Bird! Blasting out of the darkness, which of these units do you think still exists? The #403! Sadly the #6257 was destroyed in a head on collision 5 1/2 months la... (more)

"Dashing through the snow.." That MN for you on March 20! The Lake Superior Railroad Museums SD18 and GP30 pull about 60 empty coal cars in a VERY rare move, to my knowledge this is only the secon... (more)

0700 CP Duluth Job switches out Azcon Scrap in very havy fog.

BLE sisters #906 and #892 team up to switch out the E-Yard. Note the CN track machine on the flatcar behind the engines and the pair of SD60F's waiting to move a limestone train north.

After shipping too much sand for a plant that hasn't been built yet, the once weekly sand trains have become much harder to catch.

Due to its inaccessibility, this hill is rarely shot but it is incredibly impressive. One of the few remaining orange BLE units holds back 145 fresh loads of taconite as they drop from the Prindle... (more)

With a consist typical of this era, limestone departs Proctor for Minntac.

When thinking of legendary railroad towns, one thinks of Proctor, MN and the DM&IR. Cheyenne, WY and the Union Pacific. Among that list, one must include Livingston, MT and the Northern Pacific. I... (more)

I wanted to take a moment and look at a timewhen the clock turned back. After the maroon purge between 2006-2008, in which 38 DM&IR units were either sold, scrapped or repainted, it was very rare ... (more)

What a treat in 2012! Both these railroads fleets of motive power have been decimated by the CN for one reason or another. Between 8-10 WC GP40's are on property here, although the lease ends at t... (more)

Dashing through the snow... with a peach 70MAC lead-ing... Rolling track speed through Cromwell on the rarely shot Brainerd Subdivision. Oddly enough, this empty coal train had about 30 grain car... (more)