CN's L568 comes down the siding at the former DWP yard after meeting their northbound counterpart which is taking the signal on the other end of the yard to continue heading to Ranier, MN. DMIR 40... (more)

Unfortunately for us the one pellet trains we chased alot wasn't in the best condition. The 405 is shows some signs of age as she leads this U-Tac train back to Proctor on the Missabe. The Missabe... (more)

An U-Tac load is heading back to Proctor with 140 loads of pellets out of Fairlane bound for the Duluth Docks. The train is southbound on the CN Missabe Sub.

The CN climbs out of the Lake Winnebago basin south of Fond du Lac on Bryon Hill. Trains climb from 820 feet to around 1,060 feet in 6 miles. With 20,000 tons of iron ore bound for the Gulf, this ... (more)

The CN climbs out of the Lake Winnebago basin south of Fond du Lac on Bryon Hill. Trains climb from 820 feet to around 1,060 feet in 6 miles. With 20,000 tons of iron ore bound for the Gulf, this ... (more)

Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 No. 5371 sprints westbound through Spring Glen, Utah, on a fine February 2, 2005.

A heavy westbound Modoc Line train enters the farmlands of the Klamath Basin near Copic.

ALRAY CA Sept 7 1983 -- Four tunnel motors, with SD40T-2 8573 in the lead, are in command of an SP autorack train. My photo

An eastbound cab hop rolls along the Siskiyou Line between Rogue River and Grants Pass.

CAJON PASS CA Sept 6 1983 — Southern Pacific SD40T-2 8340 leads a mixed freight. My photo.

A lumber drag from the Rogue Valley heads west on the Siskiyou Line.

Before departing back to the mine to reload, DMIR 400 has to wait for a pellet loader out of Proctor to clear first.

Late afternoon low light during a winter's day with the shadows starting to get long as the sun is well on its way to setting.

After a meet here at Kelsey, MN with a northbound it's time to get back on the move south towards Proctor yard for these steaming taconite pellets. The nearby detector for the northbound rattled ... (more)

Rolling south along the CN Missabe sub as the sun sets. That plume on the horizon is the U.S. Steel Minntac plant where this train originated about an hour or so previous.