Minnesota Northern's weekly train on the Warroad subdivision exercises its trackage rights on the Canadian Pacific Detroit Lakes subdivision. Here the train passes over the Red Lake River in down... (more)

After meeting a northbound Canadian Pacific manifest, the Minnesota Northern Warroad Local takes the switch at ESS Plummer onto the Detroit Lakes sub. mainline in order to continue towards Erskine... (more)

Minnesota Northern GP9 #1383 leads two ILSX SD40-2s numbered 1339 & 1340 with the weekly Warroad Local north of Thief River Falls at Dakota Junction.

Three Minnesota Northern/ILSX locomotives assemble grain hoppers at the Greenbush CHS Salol Elevator in a scene that can only be seen once per week. The second unit is ILSX 1335, a former CP Rail... (more)

The new Minnesota Northern schedule allows for the power to lay over in either Thief River Falls or Roseau. In total, four locomotives are calling the former GN/BN wye their new resting place, an... (more)

After laying over on the TRF wye over the new year's weekend, MNN 1380 & 1356 are back on duty heading north (1380 is leading) to Dakota Junction to meet the rest of the Warroad Local that just ar... (more)

Minnesota Northern's newest locomotive in MNN paint sit on Dakota Junction having just completed the St. Hilaire portion of the Warroad Local while the other half, MNN 1383 & 1380 work the norther... (more)

At the end of Minnesota Northern's Warroad subdivision, a lot of old railroad equipment can be found, with GP9 #1383 as no exception. The Burlington Northern style station sign has slowly weather... (more)

At the end of the line in the home of Polaris Industries, two Minnesota Northern locomotives are tied down as nearly every elevator along the Warroad subdivision is busy filling grain hoppers. Th... (more)

Although some crops are being harvested in northwestern Minnesota...mostly wheat...the soybeans need a little more time, but are looking promising, especially next to Minnesota Northern's weekly t... (more)

Tied down over the weekend, ILSX 1381 sits flexing the year 1913 manufactured (and older) rails north of Thief River Falls, MN at the CP-MNN-NPR intersection at Dakota Junction.

The usual suspects have backed their train through Barnesville Jct., and are in the process of tying it down as noted by the guy on the centerbeam and the other at the rear of the lead unit. The ... (more)

A pair of GP18's await their next call to duty. Since the OTVR got a couple new units, these two don't have the workload they used to, but they still earn their keep, and wear the Railamerica sche... (more)

The evening sun on a pretty spectacular summer day in northwestern Minnesota brings out some brilliant color in not only the sky and vegetation, but in Minnesota Northern's GP10 #1380 seen here li... (more)

Near the end of their run from BNSF's Dilworth Yard, to the Hoot Lake power plant in Fergus Falls, a pair of veteran GP18's traverse some residential neighborhood on the towns northwest end.