Climbing proctor hill

CPKC Train 553 rolls north along the Mississippi River following train 261.

CPKC Train 261 rolls north along the Mississippi River after completing work at River Junction.

With a pair of GP15-1's on the point wearing the railroad's BN inspired paint scheme, the Northern Lines Railway's local arrives at the propane facility in Rockville, Minnesota with a train of loa... (more)

An early morning departure out of Proctor now finds this trio of tunnelmotors pulling limestone loads at 0700 thru the yard at Virginia at track speed to climb the hill up the south side of the La... (more)

A trio of dash 8s and 145 cars following along make the run from Two Harbors and are about a half hour away from their destination of loading pellets at the Cliffs owned Minorca mine just north of... (more)

With the Missabe and Iron Range Subs pretty quiet this morning, I found two southbound trains lined up on the nearby Rainy Sub. I stumbled upon this tranquil spot along the Cloquet River south of ... (more)

The crew from train A439 sits in the siding at Virginia giving a roll-by to a southbound container train.

A pair of Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern SD40-2's roll over a hogback in the rack as they approach Revere, Minnesota and hustle their train west over CP's Tracy Sub. Utilizing trackage rights over t... (more)

CPKC Train 260 (St. Paul - Kansas City) has a nice DPU unit pushing over the Root River Bridge.

CPKC Train 260 (St. Paul - Kansas City) has the CPKC Hydrogen Test Units CP 1001 & CP 1002 in tow as it leaves River Junction Yard and heads south towards Marquette, IA.

A loaded taconite train from the Minntac plant gets a roll-by from the crew of the Keenan local job at Biwabik. The taconite pellets are headed to Two Harbors while the local will do their work a... (more)

Another trainload of taconite pellets rounds a curve near Wales Jct as it heads toward the dock at Two Harbors on a clear and cool June morning.

In beautiful evening sunshine, Bessemer & Lake Erie 903 leads a CN SD40-2 and a C40-8 north with an empty ore train. A loaded train can be seen on the adjacent track awaiting a crew to take it sou... (more)

GN 192 is on display for Train Days at the St. Paul Union Depot. The engine is from the North Shore Scenic Railroad in Duluth.