A trio of Dash 8s round the bend heading north with 145 empties for the U.S. Steel Minntac plant west loadout pocket before heading back south for home at Two Harbors.

Rolling down the CN Missabe Sub rounding the bend crossing over the Cloquet River bound for Proctor yard with hot pellets from United Taconite.

Rolling down the CN Missabe Sub for Proctor yard with hot pellets from United Taconite.

Now arriving at Proctor yard. Three ICs and hot pellets.

Sitting in Canadian Pacific's Pig's Eye Yard is the railway's Track Evaluation Train. With a single SD40-2 for power, this train consist of (front to back): Accommodation Car CP 68, Gauge Restrai... (more)

Daylight Indoors. On July 9, 2009, Southern Pacific 4449 "Northern" GS-4 4-8-4 (Lima, 1941), the sole surviving "Daylight" locomotive had just arrived at the Friends of ... (more)

Lifting heavy wet coarse tailings up from the plant at Silver Bay to the tailings pond at m.p. 7. The veteran EMDs and the tall searchlights make for a good day.

The Keenan local crew comes up the former DMIR Hinsdale branch empty handed after their paperwork numbers didn't match the cars being stored at the former Erie Mining property, so they were told t... (more)

Ripping along the CN Iron Range sub at track speed about to split the signals at Jones as they head back to Two Harbors.

An early morning trip north from Proctor results in a morning trip back to Proctor with taconite loads.

Canadian Pacific SD40-2 6059 (class DRF-30w, built by GMD in November 1984) pulls a local of grain hoppers out of the small yard in Red Wing, adjacent to the ADM elevator, and heads west along the... (more)

A train slowly makes its way west through Belview, MN on a sweltering July evening as the boys of the Rigge family look on from the platform of the nicely restored Minneapolis & St Louis Railway d... (more)

A Twin Cities & Western crew has arrived at one of the western-most customers on the Minnesota Prairie Line and is proceeding to pick up and set out covered hoppers at the elevator in Echo, MN. Th... (more)

A Union Pacific local, with "GP38-3" 2507 and GP39-2 2732 for power, rolls into Hoffman Yard. UP 2507 is a rebuilt GP40 leased from Helm Leasing. It was originally Louisville & Nashvil... (more)

A westbound loaded sand train behind a Union Pacific SD70ACe departs Glenwood Yard on the Elbow Lake Subdivision. The ties in the foreground are remnants of an interchange track that once connecte... (more)