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)

After dumping whatever limestone was not frozen in the cars and dumping what cars that would actually cooperate in the dumping process, DM&IR 212 leads the Minntac limestone train back to Proctor... (more)

The Proctor Road Switch crew shoves their train out onto the CN dock 6 for dumping. In the foreground of the docks is Wade Stadium. The stadium was built in 1941 and holds 4,200 people and is th... (more)

One of two remaining F9(A) units waits to be moved off property due to a recent sale. The parts behind the 4210 are parts and pieces from the F9(B) 4223, 4224, 4225 that were recently scrapped.

So nice, quiet and cold with a code blue sky here at M.P. 28 along the NSM mainline as empties cruise by heading back inland from the plant on the shore of Lake Superior to the mine at Babbitt, MN... (more)

Minnesota Commercial sure has some nice power. Here Alco 314 is tied up with T-2, which is a converted slug, resting in their small yard on a quiet Sunday morning waiting to go to work again.

Two and half hours into their trip from the U.S. Steel Minntac taconite plant, the pellets are still steaming in the minus 25 degree air. They will soon have a new crew and continue downhill into... (more)

After shoving cars deep into the Sappi mill property, the crew re-emerges with their MP15DC to do some final switch moves before calling it a day.

A SD-M and a FP7 plow off a little snow as they roll up the North Shore Scenic Railroad's line to retrieve a string of 104 empty coal cars they put in storage for BNSF a few months ago.

Soo 700 leads a tourist train back into Duluth under sunny skies avoiding the storm clouds all around them.

The smell of brake dust and diesel exhaust with the squeal of metal on metal filling the air as the 15:00 Proctor Road Switch comes down the 2.2% grade from Proctor with taconite loads for the doc... (more)

CN 6018's crew in conjunction with the dock crew are about at the half way point of dumping their train of taconite pellets. Across the bay, BNSF is doing the same thing but with coal at the MER... (more)

A colorful trio of SD60's pull coal loads through downtown St. Paul meeting a local transfer heading the opposite way.

EJ&E 660 leads a ballast train northward out of the former DWP yard at Virginia and past a track crew installing new grade crossings. The EJ&E 660 has been recently assigned to northern Minnesota... (more)

What it must be like to attend your own funeral? DM&IR 403 watches the engines roll by that are quickly replacing what is left of maroon on the former Missabe as the MRF arrives back home from Tw... (more)