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.

Monster Minnesota Northern train.....with six locomotives. The Warroad local makes one last connection at the Farmers Co-Op Grain & Seed elevator before rolling down the Detroit Lakes subdivision... (more)

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)

The Minnesota Northern Warroad Local arrives into Thief River Falls with ILSX 1340 on the back end of the train with the job of holding the EOT device. This week's switching job will be extra bus... (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)

It may not appear like a typical Minnesota Northern Railroad train, but ILSX 1340 and HLLX 6964 are in charge of taking this MNN Warroad Local back to Crookston, and exercising MNN's trackage righ... (more)

Tunnel motor #1343 leads the Warroad local back to Crookston via trackage rights on the CP from Dakota Junction to Erskine, then on BNSF from Erskine and west.

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)

Expecting a cut of boxcars headed for St. Hilaire behind this locomotive, 1343 sits alone at Dakota Junction. This locomotive has been a recent regular on the MNN Warroad Subdivision. Photo from... (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)