One of the CHS switchers takes a break from moving grain cars into and out of the large Cenex Harvest States elevator in Superior, WI.

The engineer on board IC 6251 handles the controls while the conductor sits in his little shack keeping tabs on the action and looking for problems trackside as the mine employees working the crus... (more)

Erie Mining Company 4211 poses in the sun in front of the Duluth and Iron Range Depot in two Harbors, MN. The big F9 now belongs to the North Shore Scenic Railroad.

Shoving across the US/Canada border at m.p. 165.5 (Drawbridge) on the CN Rainy Sub. Once in the US the train will swap crews and continue on towards CN's Pokegama yard (Superior WI.) and points b... (more)

A brief break in the fog that's rolling across the yard affords the crew of CN 2020 some better vision.

The first snows of the season fall as some fall color hangs on across the landscape while a CN container train rolls north for Cananda.

A monster CN land barge breaks the silence as they emerge from between the snow covered trees while coming down the CN Rainy Subdivision from Canada.

The Grand Rapids local pulls into the Sappi Fine Paper yard and the four person crew works together and sets out a cut of cars before continuing west towards their namesake destination town of Gra... (more)

The mighty Cliffs Erie Railroad working to clean out the former ore dock of the chip and fines left over from past loading operations. How would you have liked to be the guy up in the crow's nest... (more)

Soo 2719 temporarily breaks the quiet of a perfect late summer afternoon as they continue to head back towards Duluth, MN.

I think I can. I think I can. SOO 2719 huffs and puffs some serious black smoke while climbing out of Two Harbors. They are just underway on the return trip back to Duluth and home at the Depot.

A long Misc. Road Freight or MRF train pulls into Proctor Yard coming down from Two Harbors and the Iron Range with various interchange traffic. Proctor Yard has become a busier place since CN de... (more)

Some overnight snow still lingers on the ground at Biwabik as a pellet train from U.S. Steel Minntac glides thru passing a string of boxcars in storage and some M.O.W. workers getting ready to hea... (more)

After dropping their short train on the other side of this former C&NW depot and headquarters for the area, WSOR 4501 slides past what very well may now be the last pair of operating wig wag sign... (more)

A good looking RS-1 in some fall color along Lake Superior's north shore crossing over the French River just outside of Duluth, MN.