A set of UP power sits in an empty yard at Albert Lea.
CP # 298 rolls down the main thru the small hamlet of Loretto with a rebuilt SOO SD60 trailing while a #603 empty oil train waits on the siding. The Minneapolis & Pacific RR laid tracks to Lorett... (more)
While Harris was incorporated in 1884, trains have been a part of the landscape since 1869 when rails were laid by the Lake Superior & Mississippi Railroad.
WC GP40 3004 does a bit of street running at Newberry MI after servicing a customer. This is now part of Watco's GDLK (Grand Elk RR).
Some colorful fall red oaks serve as a backdrop for the first afternoon Northstar commuter as it heads to its final destination of Big Lake.
Westbound manifest train has in tow the F45 GN 441 headed to Essex MT and the Izaak Walton Inn.
Another load of taconite pellets makes it way down Missabe rails towards Two Harbors.
The cement signal bases and battery box are the only remnants of the ABS signal system that the Skally line once had.
BNSF 6876 with a mixed bag of power (including a GP50 trailing) and eleven Caterpillar loads on the head end are in the hole at Darling MN.
A pair of GP35's sandwich an ex-SOO GP9 on this grain train.
The UP 'MIR' job has tied down for the night on the Olympic Steel spur with 3 coil cars.
With fresh bales of hay in the field, a DMVW train with a SD40-3 and SD45 rolls along at 10MPH on former Soo Line jointed rail.
A westbound MRL road freight with a couple of F45's and a SD45 arrive at Livingston.
Power for UP local (the 'MIR'). In a few hours, the rested crew will continue where they left off from the previous day switching out the Olympic Steel coil plant.
One of the Bessemer units is in charge of the local freight heading south of Virginia on the Iron Range Sub on this code blue day.
