A westbound freight moves the out of Pigs Eye. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

The CN ran a couple limestone trains out of Proctor around lunchtime this day. One was bound for Fairlane and one was bound for Minorca. These trains ended up running both directions back to back!... (more)

The CP sure has been good to us lately when we have been out. Here is a massive 146 car 260 rolls down the Mississippi River in the late evening light. The train curves around thru Reno with one o... (more)

The St. Paul to Kansas City daily freight train had some unusual motors in the consist. A pair of CP hydrogen locomotives are dead in tow. Each locomotive is painted in a unique paint scheme for t... (more)

Canadian Pacific Kansas City runs a local freight to Rochester, MN several days a week. The local originates at the yard in Waseca, MN and runs east towards Winona, MN as far and as often as busin... (more)

Late afternoon sun hits the nose of this northbound empty taconite train as the long winter shadows hit the ore cars.

A peaceful day with a train rolling through the white landscape.

Pulling off the CN Rainy sub at Minorca Jct. and continue the slow slog up the grade with limestone loads for delivery to the Minorca taconite plant on this early summer morning.

Peaceful afternoon run from Proctor yard up to Minntac to load and then return back home to Proctor.

Taconite loads rolling south for the yard at Two Harbors, MN

Pulling taconite loads down the CN Missabe Sub through the Zim/Sax bog on an early morning run back to Proctor yard.

Leaving the U.S. Steel Minntac property behind with loads of taconite pellets with the next stop scheduled for the yard at Proctor, MN.

CP 7056 leads train 240 across the Red Lake River in Thief River Falls with extra grain traffic, CPKC 346, along for the ride down the Detroit Lakes Subdivision mainline.

Originally built for the Southern Pacific, a former Arizona Central SD40M-2 leads a westbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train across southwest Minnesota on a perfect late summer evening.

Just after the sun dipped below the horizon, an eastbound Twin Cities & Western train makes its way along the Minnesota Prairie Line between Fairfax and Gibbon, MN.