Hit a couple trucks that get hung up on the grade crossing, put up a sign!

Passing by one of many water falls along Lake Superior's north shore.

The sign reads: "DANGER, DO NOT ENTER NO CLEARANCE FAST MOVING TRAINS" I'm sure in recent years, more moose and bear have read this sign than humans. This tunnel is 1800 feet long ... (more)

I couldn't think of a title...Tunnel Vision... or Looking Down the Barrel. Once used to store the railroad's locomotives during the winter season, Cramer Tunnel... (more)

With Lake Superior as the backdrop, the A-B-B-B crew rolls through the loops.

Pulling hard while keeping at notch 5 or so... these F's are 2x as old as me.

Coming around the corner out of the shadows of the day, this '40 heads straight into the sweet evening sun.

This train will pass over the Mississippi River twice on the Lakes and Grand Forks Subs... once the river is flowing north, the other it is flowing south. Just 21 miles to the south, the river is... (more)

I have to keep reminding myself... THIS IS 2008!!! Flowers that match the engines are all along the line in this area as this train of 12 cars rolls west.

The Sunday afternoon M-SUPMIN rolls through Wilton as the long summer shadows slowly make their way to the tracks.

The M-SUPMIN has a 6 hour layover before a new crew will be here to take them to Grand Forks... at the Station Sign Cass Lake.

With summer instability thundershowers developing to the east, this Clay Boswell coal train is tied down in Cass Lake. Almost every DPU train I've seen through CL has been pushing with the long n... (more)

After meeting a southbound taconite train, the 402 muscles north in the evening sun.

A shorter than normal taconite empty is heading toward Mountain Iron where they will take on another load of taconite. The train is only 80 cars long this afternoon with two former Missabe Maroon... (more)

Rerouted coal loads for Superior, WI roll through Bemidji as they pass the restored Great Northern Depot and the fiarly new Vet memorial. The exhast blurs the part of the dept and the water tower... (more)