Part of the display at the Soudan Underground Mine State Park which is home to Minnesota's oldest iron ore mine. Once ore left the crusher house, it traveled up the conveyor (located in the encl... (more)

EL's tug Elmira slips past the ferry John is riding revealing the mail and express tracks of the EL Hoboken Terminal. These boxes arrived on long distance passenger trains which were being elimin... (more)

Days before the end of ferry service by EL, the commuters from Hoboken to Manhattan via ferry started here on the New Jersey side of the river.

A partly cloudy night sky is the perfect scenery for this meeting of two BNSF intermodal trains.

This replica of Stephenson's Rocket was built in 1934. It was built as a static display to show the internal workings of the multi tube boiler. And one of the cylinders and valve chests has been s... (more)

The meeting place between ore and freight. The Ramshaw diamond is the crossroads between the CN Iron Range Sub and the CN Rainy Sub and it sees a lot of traffic on any given day. The IR Sub is the... (more)

Days before the end of ferry service by EL the commuters from Hoboken disembark at Barclay St. for their jobs. Most commuters who made the daily trek from New Jersey were already using PATH train... (more)

The Signal box need more space

There are little pieces of history out there if a person takes the time to look around (and down). An old Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railroad date nail from 1930 lay almost obscured by fallen ... (more)

A Mohawk, Adirondack & Northern Railroad Jordan spreader sits idle along with MLW M420W 2042 in the yard.

Across the mighty Mississippi river from downtown St. Paul MN, a small trackmobile works spotting cars for loading at a CHS fertilizer facility while a clam bucket equipped excavator empties a bar... (more)

Blue hour on Altamont Pass. On the way to Winterail!!

Inside the belly of the beast, the sound of an EMD 16-710G3 turbo charged prime mover idles away. Beside it, a tag used by mechanical personnel and locomotive engineers to advise others of mechani... (more)