A chill in the air, colors starting on the trees, jackets on the folks walking the Lakewalk and...STEAM!! The SOO 2719 leads the way for another fall of steam excursions on the North Shore Scenic... (more)

Returned earlier this spring to Rush City in it's 1960's NP stlye livery from the Thief River Falls Independent Locomotives Services paint booth, this GP9 joins the other member of the fleet, the ... (more)

The CN SD60F, CN SD75I and a DM&IR SD40-3 pull 144 steaming loads and eight empties southbound down the Missabe Subdivision and a January afternoon with temps. near 30 degrees--above zero!

The engineer on board IC 6251 handles the controls while the conductor sits in his little shack keeping tabs on the action and looking for problems trackside as the mine employees working the crus... (more)

About a half hour into their trip from leaving the Minorca mine a trio of Death Stars pull the taconite loads bound for Two Harbors. Darth Vader would have been proud seeing three Death Stars.

A pair of Dash 8's rattle the steel bridge over the St. Louis river as they rumble northward with empties.

DM&IR 211 leads a small train with it's partner GT 6221 along to assist. The former Missabe engine is one of only three remaining maroon units on the CN roster. The DM&IR 211 is now officially r... (more)

CN's Track Geometry Car, a retrofitted Budd RDC car, doing track inspections on CN"s Iron Range Sub/Gilbert Main. They will take the signal to head north and connect with the Missabe Sub to head ... (more)

A T-Bird train begins loading rock at the crusher pocket. Hopefully it goes well like it ususally does but there is always that slim chance some thing goes wrong--http://www.railpictures.net/viewp... (more)

Snow and steam all over as a trio of SD40-3's pull down from Minntac with 137 loads of iron ore pellets which will end up at Two Harbors.

CN 5500 and CN 5719 wait to take off southward with a pellet train for Proctor as a repainted DM&IR 408 pulls up with a T-Bird train. The 408 will soon to be taking the signal to go back to the m... (more)

After departing Largo, DM&IR 210 makes a solo run between United Taconite's coarse crusher and the Fairlane pellet plant ten miles to the south during a Minnesota snowfall.

A BCOL unit makes a rare stop in Virginia, MN at the former DWP Yard and is tied onto a Herzog ballast train.

The train crew goes about their business of spotting 113 grain loads at the Whitebox elevator while the General Mills elevator A and the city of Duluth provide a nice backround. Note one of Duluth... (more)

A group of teenagers staying at the hotel seem to be impressed with the sound of the Proctor Road Switch pulling hard coming around the curve at Spirit Mountain on a perfect spring day.