A busy day at United Taconite as U717 is waiting to depart back to CN's Proctor yard with 140 loads of iron ore, U730 is finished dumping crude ore for the plant and Keenan yards R901 job is finis... (more)

CTRR 36 and crew switch cars around at the Sappi mill on a day they would much rather not be with the slick conditions from the fog and freezing rain falling.

Northern States Power 4 (former CB&Q 9146) eases around the tight curve at the Gopher State Railroad Museum on the outskirts of New Prague, Minnesota.

DMIR 212 and sister 211 work shuffling cars on the E-Lead job at CN's Proctor yard on a fog, rain, dreary spring day.

CN's local L567 from Proctor yard to Ranier, MN rolls north through the Zim/Sax bog with traffic for Fort Frances, the MD&W in Internation Falls and a decent cut of Wisconsin Central sand cars on ... (more)

It's not easy catching two trains in one day on the former Minneapolis and St. Louis mainline in Minnesota, but it happened on this day! After catching BNSF's Madison Local, I went east and found ... (more)

Approaching the end/start of the Hanley Falls Sub, the Madison local heads over the frozen Yellow Medicine River in Hanley Falls, where it crosses an old wooden trestle that's received modern modi... (more)

The Maddy Local heads past the tiny community of Hazel Run.

BNSF's Maddy Local heads east through Clarkfield on the Hanley Falls Sub. This branch was once the Minneapolis and St. Louis main from the twin cities to Watertown, SD and points west.

Marshall Local seen heading south out of Hanley Falls.

LINNTW heading north into Clara City with the quad of dash 9s, 3 of the 4 in the H1 scheme.

Pulling containers up and over the Laurentian Divide on the CN Rainy Sub heading for Canada.

After a meet here at Kelsey, a trio of BLE motors throttle up to pull 140 ore cars of steaming iron ore pellets south to CN's Proctor yard.

After setting out a cut of cars for the Sappi Mill in Cloquet, MN it's off to Grand Rapids, MN to set-out and pick-up at the Blandin Mill before returning back here to Cloquet for a pick-up and th... (more)

With work at Minntac completed, Canadian National local R901 cruises around the bend through the swamp outside of Mountain Iron, Minnesota and heads back to Keenan Yard where these cars will be se... (more)