CN Track Inspector Dan drops the wheels to ride the rails at Largo but has to wait for a CN land barge to come off the Missabe Sub, thru the DWP connecting track and head up the CN Rainy Sub. befo... (more)

Emerging from the fog, DMIR 406 gets on the throttle coming off the double track portion of the CN Missabe sub as they roll towards Proctor, MN with taconite loads from the U.S. Steel Minntac plan... (more)

After a long winter of rock build-up that falls off the ore cars when loading and transporting the stuff lands between the rails and CN calls in the Loram RailVac to take care of the situation and... (more)

Help is on the way for a “sinking” train display at the Museum of Mining in Chisholm, Minn. In 1954, the first exhibit at the new museum was Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway 2-8-0 No. 347... (more)

Deleivered by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1910 this 2-8-0 worked hard hauling 48 loaded 50 ton cars or 2700 tons of crude ore from the Soudan Mine on the Vermillion Range to the shores of Lake... (more)

Cloquet Terminal SW1 #33 still works for the CTRR in 2010. Next year will mark the 70th year of service for the old switcher which started life as an EJ&E SW1 back in 1941. It was acquired by CTRR... (more)

An interesting find at the BNSF Northtown yard. The FRA track inspection vehicle DOTX 220. In 2007, Colorado Railcar built track geometry car DOTX 220 for the Federal Railroad Administration. DOT... (more)

MILW 261 rests in the back yard of the Duluth depot after a hard day pulling a passenger excursion from Minneapolis to Duluth. It is scheduled to return to it's home in Minneapolis today (Sunday... (more)

A lone passenger reads a book while waiting for his train to arrive.

With it's three man crew putting it through it's paces, the CTRR SW1 #33 performs up to expectations while doing switching work at the yard for the Sappi Mill on a cold and windy day.

A hot and humid Sunday morning finds a two man crew hard at work at the Minnesota Commercial yard in St. Paul, MN switching cars and making trains.

The Keenan local job brings in some more boxcars for storage here at Biwabik. Along with the boxcars they also have some tank cars on the tail end of their train which they spot at a local blasti... (more)

Old meets new. On a quiet Sunday afternoon amongst some falling snow and pines swaying in the wind, CN 5338 heading south back to Proctor, MN takes the siding as Q117 being led by Wisconsin Cent... (more)

Taconite pellets bound for Two Harbors make their way along the Missabe sub and will very shortly make the left turn onto the Iron Range sub for the remainder of the seventy-four-mile trip into to... (more)

Once a staple of the Iron Range, only a handful of maroon Missabe units remain. Here is a matched pair pulling loads across the bridge bound for the Fairlane Taconite plant.