The sleepy community of Mentor is briefly awakened as a four car Warroad Local hustles eastward through town.

MNN 1383 and ILSX 1381 sandwich a four car Warroad Local as it heads eastward toward the Canadian Pacific at Erskine. This location was once a major junction, where the Northern Pacific line to Wi... (more)

The weekly Warroad local sits north of Thief River Falls on a pleasant summer evening.

Fresh from the Independent Locomotive Service shop in Holt, Minnesota Northern's cow-calf unit (formerly of the Belt Railway of Chicago #504) makes an appearance on the MNN Warroad Local. This pa... (more)

One half of the weekly Minnesota Northern Warroad Local idles to avoid freezing in the typical negative temperatures of winter in northwestern Minnesota. This half of the local will travel 9 mile... (more)

Minnesota Northern's weekly trip up the Warroad Subdivision heads back to Thief River Falls passing milepost 56 to meet back up with MNN 1356 at Dakota Junction.

ILSX 1381 takes a slight curve southbound at mile post 14 on the Minnesota Northern Warroad Subdivision toward Saint Hilaire, MN. Minnesota Northern switches the local grain industries in St. Hil... (more)

With a newly applied MNN logo under her cab window, ILSX 1381 works in the Crookston yard along with recently acquired MNN 1356. She has previously spent time with the Northern Plains Railroad in ... (more)

MNN 1356 and ILSX 1381, both sporting newly applied logos under their cab windows, shove the Crystal Sugar job back toward the Crookston yard from the Wilds elevator on a cold December morning. MN... (more)

After doing some switch work at Dakota Junction, ILSX 1381 takes six cars southbound towards Saint Hilaire traveling at 10 mph: five hoppers to CHS Northwest Grain and a lone boxcar for the St. Hi... (more)

Tied down, shut down, but looking great in the afternoon sun as amber waves of grain do just that.

-19 degrees in Rush City, SCXY (ILSX) 901 was sitting quietly while SCXY 1363 was moving cars in Hinckley

A Minnesota Northern GP 9 and a Huron Eastern GP 40 roll east towards Bad Axe, MI with around 40 cars. This area is in full sugar beet season right now, so the Huron Eastern and Central Michigan a... (more)

It's lunch time at the Lunch Bucket in Elkton, MI as this local stops to do some work. This job went to work at 08:20 at Bad Axe, MI and cabbed to Sebewaing, MI to relieve to the night job that di... (more)