An early morning with wildfire smoke already visible in the air finds CN 2039 heading up the Minntac sub near m.p. 5 with empties that they'll start loading in about a half hour.

Heading back from Two Harbors, the MRF (miscellaneous road freight) has three lease returns from Northshore Mining in tow as well as a few cars of general freight. The lease units are probably cu... (more)

CN 2039 roars north with ore empties as a ground level railfan has just captured the action.

Steaming away in the fall air as taconite pellets head for Proctor yard.

Running on trackage rights across the BNSF Midway Subdivision, Canadian Pacific intermodal train 198 rolls through the junction at Saint Anthony Park, Minnesota behind an SD70ACU. Meanwhile, a BNS... (more)

An eastbound train on the Minnesota Prairie Line passes the restored Minneapolis & St Louis Railway depot at Fairfax.

The rolling hills of the Buffalo Ridge surround a southbound BNSF grain train as it hustles through southwest Minnesota.

A couple of old grain elevators along the former Great Northern in Russell, MN look on as an example of the modern unit grain trains that made them obsolete rolls by.

The sun isn't up yet as the crew on board BLE 900 heads for home at proctor yard with steaming taconite in tow on this cold morning.

A little snow falling as this empty ID from Two Harbors heads for U.S. Steel Minntac to load the trailing ore cars.

The last sliver of light hits the nose of BLE 906 as they cross the intersection of Highways 101 and 7 heading back home to Proctor yard.

Coming up from Two Harbors and across the CN Iron Range Sub it's now down the Missabe Sub for Proctor then down the hill to Duluth and back to the North Shore Scenic Railroad depot for this passen... (more)

A trio of ICs and some Missabe ore cars hauling taconite pellets back to Proctor yard.

CPCK's local from Winona skirts the west shores of the Mississippi River at Homer Siding as it heads south to LaCrosse.

With a new crew on board, a BNSF intermodal train departs from BNSF's Northtown Yard in Minneapolis, Minnesota behind a C44-9W. This is the south end of the Staples Subdivision, and the train will... (more)