An empty BNSF taconite train rolls east through some Minnesota landscape on a quiet early morning with fog and freezing drizzle covering the area. This train will load at United Taconite and retu... (more)

A T-Bird has pulled up and called the CN RTC desk looking for lights to leave the plant and head back to the mine to reload. Seems to be lights all around.

Former Erie Mining and later LTV Steel Alco RS-11 #7209 sits next to the former Missabe RR's Hinsdale branch (which ran to Ely, MN) waiting for movement to it's new owner, Mesabi Nugget, which bou... (more)

Chicago White Sox and Minnesota Twins fans converge at Guaranteed rate field outside downtown Chicago for a baseball game as a Metra train races by.

This was the north portal of the 520 foot tunnel the DW&P railroad constructed at M.P. 7.4 through Ely's Peak in far west Duluth as part of their Hill Line which took them into and out of downtow... (more)

Quiet and dormant. Hard to believe this place employed thousands in it's heyday as one of the Minnesota's Iron Range first taconite plants. Not much remains on the property now and nature is star... (more)

This is where some of the taconite pellets made on Minnesota's Iron Range actually leave Minnesota. The Indiana Harbor takes on a load of taconite pellets at the CN ore dock at Two Harbors on a ni... (more)

Go towards the light! With frost on the ties and vegitation and fog in the air, a matched trio of SD40-3's head east into the sun, which has just cracked the horizon on a crisp fall morning. Th... (more)

A half-mile below the surface at the Soudan Underground Mine State Park, home to Minnesota's oldest iron ore mine, visitors get to take a 3/4 mile train ride to the last and deepest area mined-lev... (more)

Plans are taking shape for a park to built around the Bruce Mine headframe near Chisholm, MN. CN donated a quad set of cars to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum after one car in the pack suffered... (more)

SOO 2719 pulls over Scenic Highway 61 and begins to cause a few brake locks by the cars below who start looking at a magnificant piece a machinery pass by.

The interior of former DM&IR C-97 (built in 1910) caboose looks pretty good for it's age, all things considered. When this caboose was being moved from Eveleth, MN to Chisholm, MN it had it's cup... (more)

EJ&E 660 prepares to lead a ballast train northward out of the former DWP yard at Virginia and past a track crew installing new grade crossings. The EJ&E 660 has been recently assigned to norther... (more)

There are little pieces of history out there if a person takes the time to look around (and down). An old Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railroad date nail from 1930 lay almost obscured by fallen ... (more)

This steel caboose, acquired in 2000 by the Minnesota Transportation Museum. During restoration at the Jackson Street Roundhouse shops it was determined that 13500 was most likely the CB&Q's first... (more)