In need of a facelift, BNSF 3022 with 9 loads of lumber are tied down for the night.

A quad set of ex-UPRR tunnel motors on a grain train east of Fordville ND.

Northern Lines Railway's newest acquisition is this GP15-1 proudly wearing Burlington Northern cascade green. NLR operates ex-BN trackage for customers in the St. Cloud area.

The late afternoon shadows are long as the last Northstar commuter train of the day has just backed into the maintenance facility garage for servicing.

After spending the night shutdown on the Falkirk house track, this four unit light power set is fired up and runs the short distance to the Coal Creek Station spur. There, the two non cowl units ... (more)

A 116 car shuttle train creeps along the United Farmer's Cooperative loop track for loading. The train would finish loading its last couple dozen cars in about two hours.

Ex-LNG (liquified natural gas) BN 7149, KCS 754 and a BN 9274 with a unit coal train.

A rare Geneva Utah bound taconite load with 3 SP GE's and a mix of hoppers. I believe these were symbolled something like ST815.

Passengers detrain the final Northstar commuter train of the day at the Elk River MN station platform on a 20 degree clear night at 10:43pm.

Northstar sports a rare 2 unit consist on today's commuter train as it has just crossed the Elk River.

An interesting power set for the Monticello local.

Cotton Belt/SSW 9652 leads a 3 unit SP powered reroute intermodal train on the BN's Staples Sub. Massive flooding of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers during the summer of 1993 resulted in trai... (more)

A pure stroke of luck would have a Northshore Mining train running outside of the normal schedule this fine late summer afternoon at the Superior National Forest Road 113 crossing.

Northstar commuter test train shoves east on Main 2 with a sticking brake evident by the blue smoke between the second and third cars.

The St. Cloud local thunders west thru Big Lake after picking up a couple of emtpy centerbeams from Midwest Lumber.