The sun isn't up yet as the crew on board BLE 900 heads for home at proctor yard with steaming taconite in tow on this cold morning.

A little snow falling as this empty ID from Two Harbors heads for U.S. Steel Minntac to load the trailing ore cars.

The last sliver of light hits the nose of BLE 906 as they cross the intersection of Highways 101 and 7 heading back home to Proctor yard.

Coming up from Two Harbors and across the CN Iron Range Sub it's now down the Missabe Sub for Proctor then down the hill to Duluth and back to the North Shore Scenic Railroad depot for this passen... (more)

A trio of ICs and some Missabe ore cars hauling taconite pellets back to Proctor yard.

CPCK's local from Winona skirts the west shores of the Mississippi River at Homer Siding as it heads south to LaCrosse.

With a new crew on board, a BNSF intermodal train departs from BNSF's Northtown Yard in Minneapolis, Minnesota behind a C44-9W. This is the south end of the Staples Subdivision, and the train will... (more)

Hiding a grungy CN GE in the NE Minnesota landscape.

Cruising back to Proctor yard with three EMDs and Missabe ore cars loaded to the brim with taconite pellets made at the U.S. Steel Minntac plant.

Cruising back to Proctor yard with three EMDs and Missabe ore cars loaded to the brim with taconite pellets.

The Waseca Local showed up in Rochester, MN today with only 1 car; a single bulkhead flat loaded with wallboard for a building supply company on the south side of town. I first saw it at Byron, MN... (more)

Their day done its back to the barn for the crew and the CTRR 36 as they pass the Northeastern Saloon, built in 1904, after switching cars for the Sappi Mill who's exhaust is seen in the backgroun... (more)

Coming up the BNSF Lakes sub and taking the right turn onto the BNSF Casco sub at Brookston for the trip up to the Iron Range and Hibbing Taconite to load taconite pellets.

A "post-merger" pair leads the Lincoln to Northtown manifest on a chilly morning in Howard Lake. It's interesting to note how both of these units were purchased by the Santa Fe and BN, but were de... (more)

MD&W 22 is about to leave the shop/office and head over to the mill to do some early evening switching at the PCA paper plant.