North Shore Scenic Railroad's newest edition poses outside the Depot in Two Harbors, MN. They were using the 4211 to switch passenger cars as the Soo 2719 was being wyed for the return trip to Du... (more)

CN 3035 is rumbling north up the Missabe sub knocking down the signal at Wolf along main two taking a right turn for them heading towards Shelton Jct. and the Rainy sub bound for Canada. This sig... (more)

A former DM&N 1905 U-3 series ore car sold to the Duluth & Northeastern in CLoquet rests in the roundhouse after having been restored during the summer of 2011. The car had been used to spread bal... (more)

A single engine and four cars wait to depart BNSF and head back to their own yard on Rices Point in Duluth. Trains are small in the grand view of things.

Idled for part of the summer, U.S Steel Minntac is now back to full strength and pumping out taconite pellets by the train load. IC 6260 leads 144 cars of fresh made pellets down the hill from th... (more)

CN 2112 is all loaded out and a new crew has arrived to keep the ore moving from United Taconite north Fairlane crusher to their processing plant 10 miles away. This mine, some of which is in the... (more)

The Empire Builder leaves downtown St. Paul slightly behind schedule and travels along the mighty Mississippi River bound for Chicago later this afternoon.

Steam vs. Diesel. Saturday afternoon. Winner take all match. Soo 2719 blows off some steam in front of the Erie Mining Company F9 as they prepare to head back towards Duluth and the Depot where ... (more)

Old Steel. Here is a trio of 1907 built ore cars. They made great cars in ballast service due to the manual doors on both ends. Loaned and later donated to the Lake Superior & Mississippi tourist ... (more)

The Kelly Lake local makes tracks and kicks up fresh snow as they use trackage rights heading over on the once a week trip down the CN Keenan Sub to deliver betonite clay to the Minorca mine on Mi... (more)

After a long day of testing rail, the CN Track Evaluation RDC Budd car is tied down and resting for the night in the yard at Virginia along the CN Rainy Sub.

In a scene that could be in the 1980's a pair of untouched SOO units pass the SOO Depot at Odgen Avenue in downtown Superior, WI. These geeps are taking a transfer from Stinson Yard to Rices Point... (more)

Originally a Southern Pacific unit, this engine was then lettered for the Northern Plains Railroad (NPR lettering on the side) and then was used by Laurentian Aggregates (the L.A. logo behind the ... (more)

First born in 1975 and fresh from a rebuild in 2008, DM&IR 212 returns to the Iron Range after 5 months of work complete with a new prime mover and main generator along with a few other goodies l... (more)

Long gone from the CN active roster and shown in better days, this SD-M of the former DM&IR/ Missabe Road days was earning it's keep on this snowy New Years Day retrieiving a bad order set-out an... (more)