The once-a-week Kelly Lake local and their standard train consisting of 5 cars of bentonite clay heading east on the CN Keenan sub using trackage rights to serve the Minorca mine north of Virginia... (more)

Activating four sets of crossing signals, two of which are still the old Griswolds, this all rail taconite crawls through downtown Hibbing, MN at 10 mph. In another couple miles they will be out o... (more)

This BNSF all rail taconite train just passed through Bob Dylan's hometown of Hibbing, MN and is now about to pass under the at one time double track bridge over the BN that the DMIR/Missabe used ... (more)

Due to congestion on the CN, a late-running Kelly Lake Local coming back from the Minorca mine with five empty bentonite cars slowly cruising by the former GN depot in Hibbing, MN on a Friday afte... (more)

Coming through downtown Hibbing, MN at 10 mph, BNSF 4208 leads taconite loads while splitting one of the four sets of Griswolds in town, these here at East 5th Ave.

BNSF all-rail UKESMAD0-10T rolls slowly through Bob Dylan's hometown of Hibbing, MN and the old depot as they head back west to Kelly Lake then turn south for a trip to Granite City near St. Louis... (more)

A BNSF All-Rail UALLKES0-01T cruises through Wilpen heading to Keenan yard where a CN crew will take it to load 130 cars at USS Minntac then return it back to Keenan where a BNSF crew will re-take... (more)

The Mitchell Engine House was built in 1906 by the Duluth, Missabe & Northern Railroad for the sole purpose of servicing the steam locomotives being used at the time to move ore from Minnesota's I... (more)

The Griswold signals activate and the engineer blows the horn while a young boy stops and sits to watch the train roll by on a quiet Sunday afternoon in Hibbing, MN.

A fresh and still clean rebuilt SD40-2R looks good in the morning sun as they pass through a downtown road crossing featuring a working Griswold signal in Bob Dylan's hometown of Hibbing, MN.

A fresh and clean looking rebuilt SD40-2R looks good in the morning sun as they pass by the former depot in Bob Dylan's hometown of Hibbing, MN while on the way to the Minorca mine.

A nice summer morning finds the Kelly Lake local heading over from it's namesake to the Minorca mine using trackage rights to deliver hoppers of bentonite clay for pellet production.

A little refreshing flashback to a nice winter scene. A pair of SD40-2's, operating Griswold signal, snow and a friendly crew on a cold winter day. The Kelly lake local starts the trek eastward f... (more)

The Kelly Lake local makes a special and somewhat rare delivery consisting of one coal load to the Hibbing Public Utilities on a cold and snowy February morning. The utility burns bio-mass for the... (more)

The Kelly Lake local finishes putting the train back together after delivering one carload of coal to the HPU plant. This plant (started in 1894 and serving from it's present location since 1919)... (more)