The L510 has a good size train today for the Wisconsin Southern. Here the crew shoves the 1st yard track to the limit. The engineer peaks out the window to get a better feel to where he is shoving... (more)

Interesting consist shoves limestone back up the hole track, and then they will head for Proctor.

With the "Twin Cities Mafia" invading the Iron Range on this day cleaning up, it was some to receive some home cooking in the form of DM&IR 403 departing with 143 for Minntac. Shown here heading t... (more)

There are five BLE's working the former Missabe, every once in a while they'll get put together making for a cool consist to chase. Here the 903 and 909 lead a repainted IC SD40-2 with another lo... (more)

CP 450 enters the Colonie Sub with 72 cars in tow from Saratoga to Kenwood Yard, Port of Albany, NY. Trailing units are SOO SD60m 6058 and ICE 6215, City of Liberty. The DME 6086 is the former Que... (more)

A rare train on the Waseca Sub, corn mash #367 swings into Owatonna, MN doing every bit of track speed. The leader is the last remaining locomotive wearing IMRL dress.

BTNC creeps into Buhls on a beautiful February day.

Three Illinois Central units now serving time on the former Missabe pass through Sparta with 135 loads of steaming taconite pellets on a frost covered morning along the CN Iron Range Subdivision.

You can almost hear the Imperial March from Star Wars playing in your mind as the Death Stars make their descent down the hill from U.S. Steel Minntac with 135 loads headed to Two Harbors, MN.

Illinois Central 6251 makes it's way across the Iron Range as the sun makes it's way over the horizon. This train will head to U.S. Steel Minntac for loading the 135 trailing cars with taconite p... (more)

Kansas Valley Railroad KCR 3003... oops i meant to say Allegheny Valley Railroad 3003 leads the interchange traffic from the BP south to Glenwood yard. The AVR looks more like the KCS these days w... (more)

A matched pair of IC SD40-3s leads a train up Proctor Hill as an ice-free Lake Superior shows off its deep blue color.

3331 and 451 lead the BTNC back to Butler with a decent sized train in tow.

The Cedar River local is stopping to setout cars on the north end of Grain Millers (GMI). GMI gets a fair amount of loaded oats from Saskatchewan for processing. It is the Cedar River's biggest cu... (more)

Tailings train thunders through the detector and signals at MP 2.2 as they drop down quite a large hill minutes from Silver Bay.