Union Pacific had a group of scale test cars stored at their yard in Winona, MN in spring 2023. They included a variety of designs and predecessor initials. CNW 263633 was in the group and seemed ... (more)

F40s were the dominant power on long-distance Amtrak trains through the 1980s and early 1990s. The Empire Builder embodies the look of the era well back in 1993 as it passes through the University... (more)

Cutting through the fog and snowless landscape as they travel down to Two Harbors, MN with Minntac made marbles.

A pair of Minnesota Commercial B39-8E's on the Job 46 "Belt Job" work the yard in New Brighton, Minnesota, pulling out a cut of loaded centerbeams as they build their southbound train to... (more)

Fresh pellet steam wisps off of the loaded taconite cars as Canadian National's U717 snakes its way out of the departure tracks at the Fairlane Taconite Plant in Forbes, Minnesota. A trio of class... (more)

BLE 909 and two other EMDs ease a train of taconite down the hill from Proctor to Duluth, MN.

Another quarter mile and this crew will come to a stop ending their trip from CN's Pokegama yard to Ranier, MN. As soon as they get off the train, a Canadian crew will jump on board and cross the... (more)

The first pellets of the new year are loaded into 137 ore cars and ready to go back to Proctor yard behind three BLE tunnels.

U716 loads at UTAC's Fairlane processing plant with BLE 909-904-906 for power. Once loaded, the 137 car train will head back south to Proctor as U717. There are five B&LE tunnel motors assigned to... (more)

Shoving the containers over the border and into Canada.

With fog and frost in the morning air, CN 3233, the salute to veterans unit, comes across the US/Canada border with southbound freight in tow passing thru the myriad of security features and by th... (more)

With southbound limestone empties U714 holding in the siding, iron ore empties on U716 cruise north through Alborn, Minnesota as they head up the Missabe Subdivision for loading at Fairlane. Once ... (more)

MD&W SW-10 switching boxcars around at the Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) paper mill in International Falls on a fog and frost filled morning mere feet from the Canadian border.

In the late evening hours, CN empty sand train S77251-02 pounds the diamond at Largo, Minnesota as it continues south on the Rainy Subdivision. This junction is the north end of the Missabe Subdiv... (more)

Nothing is coming indicated by the red signals at Iron Jct.