The Willmar to Northtown manifest heads east on the Wayzata Sub with a trio of older EMDs.

CN 2000 splits the signals at Fairbanks, Minnesota on its way to the ore dock at Two Harbors with a load of hot, steaming Taconite pellets. The pellets originated as raw ore at the Minntac Mine be... (more)

There's no operator or agent in the window to greet trains, such as this single locomotive moving westbound, but at least the former Minneapolis & St Louis Railway depot still stands in Fairfax, M... (more)

A BNSF Intermodal Train departs the Twin Cities under a cool winter sunset. An H1 Dash 9 pair running 1x1 leads the train into the cold night ahead towards LaCrosse Wisconsin.

The Grand Rapids is about to cross under Minnesota State Highway 23 as the train makes its way towards Superior, WI.

Four EMDs lead a short mixed freight into the setting sun near Biwabik.

Heading back to Proctor on a late fall afternoon after delivering limestone loads to the Minorca mine earlier in the day.

The peak of colored leaves has come and is now gone across NE Minnesota. On this day near the peak, CN 2040 called RTC to depart Minntac only to come down and around the corner in full sun and th... (more)

A trio of EMDs hustle South with a taconite load out of the Fairlane Processing Facility.

The 3018 one of Great Northern GP35s rests between assignments at Minneapolis on July 28, 1965. The major identifying feature between the first and second GP35 orders was that the first group was... (more)

IC 6251 leads a taconite train out of the Fairlane Processing Facility.

The engineer of an eastbound manifest gives a thumbs up as he pulls out onto main 1 from Northtown Yard at the 35th Ave interlocking and an intermodal train hustles past on main 2. They're both du... (more)

The first snow of the season falls as an empty pellet ID heads north through Sparta heading to load at U.S. Steel Minntac.

CN 5349 leads an empty taconite train around the bend at Iron Junction.

With the purge of the former UP/CNW Dash 8s from the ore pool on CN's roster beginning it was fitting that the GEs would take over where the Dash 8s did when they first arrived ala the T-Bird job.... (more)