A nice trio of blue and golds blasts down the River Sub.
With Two Harbors experiencing a severe power shortage, the 40 year old DMIR 405 and another unit were grabbed out of Keenan and now lead this dry ice, er taconite, train out of Minntac for Couple ... (more)
M347 thunders under Highway 33 doing all of track speed. Nice to see these cowls out stretching their legs.
Empties for Minntac pound through Biwabik on an absolutely gorgeous fall day. In the background a train for BFT for Two Harbors sits.
Keenan Switch brings back one car from Noimi.
SD70WHAT? With just over 1/3 of the horsepower of a single modern road unit, this gutty SD18 lugs 122 coal cars towards the BNSF at Duluth.
Coal power laying over.
1500 PRS dragging commerical traffic back to Proctor.
As a snow storm brews coal empties fight their way to Superior. The crew is about 20 miles from home now.
Pretty nice power set of a former CB&Q GP35 and NP GP9.
With the yard at Silver Bay plugged, all the #651 can do today is drop off cars (middle track) and let the ones the CN dropped off (left track) sit another day. They will run light back the the Ba... (more)
Accelerating out of the sag, Missabe motors shake the ground as they head to the BNSF.
BLE #900 North just got the signal at Adolph and prepares to blast out of Proctor.
The last "last" Bemidji Local heads light to its namesake with regular engineer Lohrbach and old head conductor G.H.
A sight for Kevin Madsens sore eyes. Fairly recent repaint (and nice looking!) leads a sister on the Rapids Turn.