A quiet Saturday morning that still has some patchy fog hanging in the air finds a three-person crew performing some switching moves alongside the Blandin paper mill near downtown Grand Rapids, MN... (more)
Switching cars at the Blandin Paper Company, BNSF 3136 goes about it's duties on an early weekday morning. That's the BNSF Lakes sub running straight through the yard. This is the eastern end, t... (more)
BNSF 2647 and caboose BN 12508 sit quietly on a late Sunday afternoon.
Not much action taking place on a quiet Saturday afternoon in the yard along side the Blandin Paper mill in Grand Rapids, MN. However plant is humming along making paper products.
Two resident geeps sit idle at the temporarily shut down Blandin paper mill in Grand Rapids along a spur near the log yard. This set also switches over in Deer River as the Seyton Local.
Power for the switching duties at the mostly quiet Blandin Paper Mill sits tucked inside a somewhat secure fenced area on mill property.
A short freight heads eastwards out of Grand Rapids.
On a cold late fall day in northern Minnesota where the temperature is currently only 2 degrees above zero and a wind chill advisory is in effect with wind chill values of 25 to 40 below zero it's... (more)
After leaving Superior, WI and with work to do in Carlton, MN and Cloquet, MN, the Grand Rapids local arrives at it's namesake destination with cars for the Blandin paper plant, the towns biggest ... (more)
The local power for the eastern section of the BNSF Lakes subdivision, known as the Grand Rapids local, lays over on the one day off during the regular work week. Most of the cars in the area are... (more)
Seasons are changing and dramatic skies result.
Eastbound - Pasco, WA to Superior, WI
