Two former Conrail B23-7s bring the Roseville Job back south after waiting for Amtrak to get into the yard.

DMIR 186 (rebuilt as a SD-M from a SD18) brings a loaded ore train across the Whiteface River near Kelsey, MN in September of 1987. This unit was saved and currently resides at a grain elevator in... (more)

A St. Croix Valley Railroad SD40M-2 leads an empty unit sand train as it heads south of Harris, Minnesota alongside Forest Boulevard. The train is nearing its destination at the Titan Lansing Plan... (more)

Soo 700

The DMIR 409 leading an empty pellet train up to Minntac to load. The EMD veteran was called into service when one of the Dash 8 units had an issue and was pulled out of the lineup.

As the sun sets on another day, CN 2107 has departed Largo and is the process of tying up vehicle traffic as they cross Highway 7 traveling south with rock from the mine heading to the plant.

The Elbow Lake Co-op's SW9, leased from Independent Locomotive Service, works to load another shuttle train for CPKC on a July morning in west central Minnesota.

Two of the Red River Valley & Western's newest motive power acquisitions, some former BNSF SD70MAC's, rest in the yard at Breckenridge on a warm summer morning.

On yet another hazy summer evening, a westbound light power move consisting of 27 locomotives heading for storage in Glendive, MT nears Dilworth Yard, seen just west of Glyndon, MN.

They came up from Proctor yard in the middle of the night with limestone loads for the Minntac plant and after dumping said loads they spotted their empties at the rock track and picked up the loa... (more)

Celebrating 25 years of railroading, NPR 2283 wears a basic blue and yellow paint scheme to honor Northern Plains Railroad. NPR has worked former Soo Line Wheat Lines in North Dakota and Minnesot... (more)

Humid enough to create that steaming pellets effect on this early morning departure from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant as they travel back to Two Harbors, MN.

Just before things flatten out on the prairies of western Minnesota, a few rolling hills gridded with gravel township roads can be a neat backdrop for trains traversing the Elbow Lake Sub. Like h... (more)

After a mechanical failure to the third member of the typical Dash 8 trio power set used out of Two Harbors, the decision was made to use veteran DMIR 409 to lead a pellet id up to Minntac. She st... (more)

A southbound BNSF train of dried distillers grain climbs toward the US Highway 14 overpass at Florence, MN, dodging some cloud shadows along the way.