Making it's RP.Net debut--This GE 60 ton operated between 1928 and 1966 and pioneered the Hanna Mining electrification program which replaced steam engin power in the mine pits. The engin was used... (more)

A very brief break in the clouds sheds a little light on some locomotives resting and awaiting assignments at the BNSF's ex-Great Northern Belknap Engine facility in Superior, Wisconsin. The Great... (more)

On the west end of Minnesota's Iron Range, Essar Steel Minnesota is bringing a new era of mining to Minnesota’s mighty Iron Range by building a state of the art open pit mining, concentrating an... (more)

The crew of the Cloquet Terminal Railroad puts their former Duluth and Northeastern EMD SW1000 #35 through it's paces and switches cars in and around the Sappi Paper plant on a cold Minnesota earl... (more)

A blinding snowstorm does not stop this T-Bird crew from running. Yes, It is snowing tthat hard!!!!!

A nice Christmas present to myself was catching this move by the North Shore Scenic Railroad crew using DM&IR 316 and DM&IR 193 to bring empty BNSF coal hoppers up the scenic railroad line for win... (more)

After a trip to Hinckley, MN to pick up a 30 car BNSF transfer of grain loads, the GP9 duo from the St. Croix Valley RR roll south down the former NP Skally Line about to cross over the Snake Rive... (more)

The end of an era. Another chapter in the storied book on Minnesota's Iron Range has come to an end with the removal of the last two F9A units from the former Erie Mining property. Once the trai... (more)

Fresh off a coffee break, the two man crew uses this old DM&IR switcher for moving cars around at the bulk materials facility, Hallett Dock Co.. This switcher, retired by CN in 2006 and acquired ... (more)

An old DM&IR caboose on static display outside the small town of Poplar, Wisconsin.

The meeting place between ore and freight. The Ramshaw diamond is the crossroads between the CN Iron Range Sub and the CN Rainy Sub and it sees a lot of traffic on any given day. The IR Sub is the... (more)

Pulling containers along the CN Rainy Sub at Cook, MN, CN 3115 passes m.p. 100 on the way to Canada.

Steaming iron ore pellets travel along the Missabe Subdivision in the new CN/DMIR ore cars. The new cars arrived in late summer of 2009 to replace the aging fleet of Missabe/DM&IR cars

A small break in the clouds allowed a shot of a true M.O.W. beast--the ballast cleaner. Tied down at the former DWP Yard in Virginia it awaits it's next job

The many different angles of rail grinding operations can be seen as the fresh steel rusts due to inactivity and the spilled taconite pellets that will probably never become new steel.