Always nice to see an old veteran plying the rails as they come around the curve and down the hill from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant with steaming hot taconite pellets on a cold winter's afternoon... (more)

A lone SD40-3 switches tirelessly in the center of the WLE's Brewster yard. Over the course of many hours, this locomotive would be the only one moving in the entire facility, later to be joined b... (more)

A colorful consist leads CSX S573 south towards Louisville's Osborn Yard with KCS and a couple of lease units.

It's a gloomy and rainy day in Erie, Pennsylvania as a matching trio of CSX SD40-3's pull manifest freight Q367 west. In the lead is class unit CSXT 4000. These SD40-3's were rebuilt from SD40-2 c... (more)

IC SD40-3 6250 and BLE SD40T-3 shove hard on southbound A446 as they pass by the local grain elevator in Byron.

Passing MP 150, IC 6250 and BLE 901 are giving it all they got to help a lengthy A446 up the hill in Byron.

IC 6250 and BLE 901, both wearing their classic paint schemes, give southbound A446 a hand up Byron Hill.

The crew of this 0700 Proctor switch job have the dynamic brakes howling on their three veteran EMD SD40 products as they fight gravity carefully maneuvering R92181 13 and its heavy train of 132 s... (more)

DMIR 404, BLE 904 and CN 2119 pass under northeastern Minnesota's version of the famous barn shot at Two Medicine Bridge at East Glacier, Montana.

Departing the mine, headed to the plant. With a little dust off the top of the freshly mined and course crushed rock.

After crossing CP Draw, the power set from a northbound coal train begins its journey south towards Salamanca as a light power move.

A 138 car string of veteran DMIR ore cars led by a trio of SD40-3's pull off the yard track at United Taconite and make the south turn on the CN Missabe Sub headed back to Proctor, MN while IC 625... (more)

IC 6264 gets the green signal to head back to Proctor, MN with taconite pellets as IC 6252 will wait for them to clear before heading back to the mine to load more rock.

After dropping a loaded coal train in the yard on the South Buffalo Railway, a quartet of EMD SD's heads towards the Tifft Street Yard, crossing over the tracks of CSX, Buffalo Southern, and Norfo... (more)

Eastbound loaded rail train passes through downtown Thurmond