CN C40-8 2007 leads ore empties North under a rainbow as they approach the signal at Jones.

Pumpkins Climb Spirit Mountain: BLE 906 leads fellow Bessemer SD40T-3 #904 and CN/IC SD40-3 #6255 as they lug ore empties up Spirit Mountain from Dock 6 in Duluth to Proctor Yard. Stormy skies and... (more)

An empty ore train screams up Proctor Hill on it's way to Proctor yard, with 2 out of the final 3 remaining BLE tunnel motors in the Iron Range region.

NP SD45 3617 leads a beer tasting train South out of Palmers on the return trip to the Duluth depot.

Taconite pellets from Mountain Iron southbound for Convent, Louisiana.

Under threatening skies, CN 2025 cuts between hills of fall color as they roll towards home at Two Harbors, MN.

The Keenan local rounds the bend on the running track with a cut of boxcars the crew will tie down and leave here in storage.

Friday the 13th finds R901 rolling through the fall colors as they head towards Biwabik with boxcars for storage.

NS SD70ACe 1035 leads CPKC 254 East along the Mississippi in Dakota.

A pair of former Oakway SD60s lead L506 over the 2,682 foot long Arcola High Bridge. Movements over this bridge in favorable light take place just a few times per year at most.

A pair of North Shore Mining SD70ACe's bringing the morning loads of raw iron ore towards Silver Bay to be processed into taconite pellets.

A trio of C40-8's lead empty Canadian National ore train U792 from Two Harbors as it approaches Iron Junction, Minnesota. This train will take the north leg of the wye to get on to the Missabe ... (more)

Minnesota Commercial's Alcos and MLWs are joined together in the yard as a string of dead line locomotives. Though I never was able to get a photo of MNNR 35 in action, it is a consolation to at ... (more)

Coming around the s curve with taconite loads, NSM 675 and NSM 672 hold back their train as they descend into the Lake Superior basin with the plant and the shore of Lake Superior only a few more ... (more)

Southbound taconite loads hit a sucker hole as they pass through the small location known as Skibo along the CN Iron Range Sub. The train of three Dash 8s and 145 ore cars is only slightly shorter... (more)