Looking more like the bottom of a bird cage than one of the once mighty Erie Mining/ LTV Steel EMD built F units, EMCO 4214 sits in the weeds in a small three track yard on Cliffs Erie property wa... (more)

One of the former Erie Mining Company F9(A) units and three B units (#4223, 4225 and 4224) now owned by Cliffs Erie sit along trackage that was once used to serve the massive pellet plant ( which... (more)

Work continues on the D&NE #28, as it's sitting in the shop it once called home many years ago. This ex-DM&IR #332 2-8-0 now owned by the Lake Superior Railroad Museum is being cosmetically resto... (more)

Work continues on the D&NE #28, as it's sitting in the shop it once called home many years ago. This ex-DM&IR #332 2-8-0 now owned by the Lake Superior Railroad Museum is being cosmetically resto... (more)

The CTRR #33 moves back a little to let the D+NE #28 tender bask in the afternoon sun shining down on it. The tender is being lettered today as it almost completes a cosmetic restoration by the s... (more)

Pushing 72 years old, this SW1 owned by the Cloquet Terminal Railroad still shows no signs of slowing down despite being used daily serving the Sappi paper mill and is kept in working order by the... (more)

Taconite rock rolls the 47 miles from Babbitt to Silver Bay for processing, passing through the scenic Superior National Forest along the way.

After delivering the 1100 loads of taconite rock to Silver Bay from Babbitt, the trailing units on the way down get to lead on the way back up. Oh goodie! Instead of the nice blue/white paint sc... (more)

Loads of taconite rock head down from the Babbitt mine to the plant in Silver Bay located some 47 miles away on the shore of Lake Superior. It's about a two hour trip one way hauling the approx. ... (more)

Having run the complete 47 mile NSM mainline with tailings ( fine waste rock from the taconite production process) for the mine haul roads, NSM 651 heads back to Silver Bay and is just outside Bab... (more)

Standing on the former Erie Mining Dunka Branch bridge which Erie Mining used to access the Dunka Mine shooting the NSM 1100 loads two miles out their own mine and yard at Babbitt.

Taconite pellets steam towards Two Harbors behind CN 6018, IC 6261 and DM&IR 403 as a sucker hole of sun breaks through and illuminates the train.

The beautifully restored interior of the Glen Mine trolley. This Minnesota Discovery Center trolley is originally from Melbourne, Australia and was built in 1928 and is very similar to the trolle... (more)

The Glen Mine trolley heads around the final curve of it's 2.5 mile loop which it travels around the Minnesota Discovery Center grounds and past some old Griswold Signals standing guard at an ent... (more)

A TC&W transfer to both the UP and CP Railways sneaks under the St. Paul skyline and above a temporarily quiet road as they travel along the Mississippi River to their destinations.