The day after April Fool's Day and CN had this little surprise present itself, DMIR 400 and DMIR 404 leading a pellet train back to Two Harbors from the Minorca taconite plant. The two former Miss... (more)

Fresh pellet steam wisps off of the loaded taconite cars as Canadian National's U717 snakes its way out of the departure tracks at the Fairlane Taconite Plant in Forbes, Minnesota. A trio of class... (more)

The CN climbs out of the Lake Winnebago basin south of Fond du Lac on Bryon Hill. Trains climb from 820 feet to around 1,060 feet in 6 miles. With 20,000 tons of iron ore bound for the Gulf, this ... (more)

The CN climbs out of the Lake Winnebago basin south of Fond du Lac on Bryon Hill. Trains climb from 820 feet to around 1,060 feet in 6 miles. With 20,000 tons of iron ore bound for the Gulf, this ... (more)

Lancaster and Chester Train 12 has just picked up some cars from LC 12 and is now heading to Richburg to work the various industries there. With all of the changed I have seen on the L&C in 25 yea... (more)

IIRC this is the train that brought all the boys to the yard. A trio of BLE tunnels sit in the siding at the former DWP yard at Virginia with their train of limestone loads after a trip to the Mi... (more)

Typical fall day across northern Minnesota except for the trio of BLE's adding a little color.

Lancaster and Chester Railroad SD40T-3 leads LC 12 on the wye having excahnged cars with LC 16 in Janary 2018. The locomotive was built for the Southern Pacific as SP 8257 in 1984.

Its minus 34 degrees at daybreak and BLE 900 pops out of the shadows at N. Fairlane with U711 in tow for Proctor.

Even the birds head for cover as a rapidly approaching storm out of the east bears down on the Lakehead with the DMIR/EJE beltpack set going about its business spotting empties for inspection in t... (more)

Repainted BLE tunnel motor 902 leads CN L512 East into Kirk Yard.

Empty ore train U716 rounds the bend in the morning sun as it comes off the Missabe Sub and down the connection to United Taconite's Fairlane Plant in Forbes, Minnesota for loading. A pair of form... (more)

Repainted BLE tunnel motor 902 leads the Lakefront local East through East Chicago.

Repainted BLE tunnel motor 902 departs the Port of Chicago with CN L512.

The crew of Lancaster and Chester Train 12 has run aruond their train on the Circle S Feed Miill spur after working the Owens-Hamilton facility to the right of this frame. They are returning to do... (more)