It's officially spring but there is still plenty of ice in the harbor as Minnesota experiences a colder than normal spring. The shipping season is well underway though as two ships and one train ... (more)

It still looks like winter in northern Minnesota and it feels like it too. As the cool winds blow, a freshly loaded train of taconite from U.S. Steel Keetac ( the plant is just outside this small... (more)

As a loaded taconite train behind a clean SD70ACe rolls towards Superior, the Kelly Lake local behind a decent looking SD40-2 is on the siding and a rolling exchange of paper work and friendlies t... (more)

The ugly big brother. The DPU of a loaded taconite train makes the cleaner SD40-2 look small but size isn't everything.

Under the watchful eye of the man on the moon and a some passing jets overhead, the Kelly Lake local gets to work switching empties for loads at Brookston before heading back home to Kelly Lake, M... (more)

It's a cold Minnesota night made evident by the icicles hanging off the roof of the St. Croix Valley Railroad office as the two geeps idle nearby keeping themselves warm.

Arriving and now departing under the cover of darkness, the crew on board CN 6024 calls RTC to say they are loaded out and ready to depart Fairlane and head back to Proctor with 144 loads of tacon... (more)

A couple of old DM&IR M.o.W. carts rest near the end of the track while a 120 car string of old DM&IR quad sets rest waiting for warmer weather and the return (hopefully) to BFT service.

An impressive collection of power on the head-end of the L594 as it rolls over the Whiteface river at Kelsey, MN on it's way to Proctor from the Iron Range. Leading the train was CN GP40-2W 9544 f... (more)

An impressive collection of power on the head-end of the L594 as it rolls through a curve at Culver, MN on it's way to Proctor from the Iron Range. Leading the train was CN GP40-2W 9544 followed b... (more)

A relief crew arrives by van to take these pellet loads back to Proctor, MN while a T-Bird train inches up along side to illuminate the train so the new crew can release the handbrakes before take... (more)

DM&IR 403 has already gone by heading towards Two Harbors with steaming taconite pellets and the F.R.E.D. is following along in it's tracks.

While waiting to photograph a mighty Yellowstone led loaded ore train from the Mesabi Iron Range that was heading to the docks in Two Harbors, something caught my eye. Here was a recently install... (more)

The engineer pulls up and waits for his conductor to arrive from the tail end of the train so they can take off. Luckily for the conductor there was a track inspector close by who offered to give... (more)

IC 6252 leads the empties off the CN Iron Range Sub at Iron Jct. in the last light of the day. They will load the train at the west load-out at U.S. Steel Minntac and head back to Two Harbors und... (more)