The sun barely pokes through a small gap in the clouds while IHB 115 hops onto the NS Chicago Line for Burns Harbor with the usual duo of IHB GP40-3’s. The historic Inland Steel Office Building ... (more)

Being thrown in every siding for every northbound on the mainline, X342 with a CSXT SD40-2 leader once again holds in another siding as a northbound Q117 thunders north with a SD70M-2 leader.

On a gloomy morning, various equipment sits around at Wisconsin Great Northern.

Two EMD GP7’s, ITC 1605 and CRIP 4506 lead the coach train past a vintage ITC No Trespassing sign at Johnson siding during Showcase Weekend 2020, the first huge brought-back Illinois Railway Mus... (more)

Z-CHCSSE overtakes outbound 1313 at Naperville with METX F40PH-2 122 leading while F40PHM-2 214 shoves an inbound towards Chicago.

The pouring rain doesn’t stop the local snow geese from looking for food as the Union Pacific North Local (UP LSF54) thunders north over the Kankakee River with two GP60’s and cars for DOW Che... (more)

PGR 42 arrives into Chippewa Falls with a Wisconsin Northern grain train.

On a gloomy evening, the westbound Empire Builder heads west on the historic double-decker bridge over the Wisconsin River in Wisconsin Dells. Time’s are quiet in the Dells as summer tourists ha... (more)

Rumor has it that the North Shore Mining Railroad is closing down due to poor quality pellets, old technology to make pellets, and inability to renew mineral leases for the time being. I took adva... (more)

Missabe Remains. DMIR 409 and GTW 5934 lead a rail train on the Iron Range Subdivision through Biwabik, as the old Duluth Missabe & Iron Range Biwabik Roundhouse still stands strong in the backgro... (more)

Three CN C40-8’s shine in the evening winter sun with a southbound Iron Range subdivision train as they enter Fayal, Minnesota.

On a cold afternoon, three C40-8’s lead a southbound through Wolf on the Missabe Subdivision as they head alongside County Highway 101.

The EJ&E heritage unit finds itself in unfamiliar Missabe territory as it leads M347 north under the Route 37 overpass on the Missabe Subdivision.

M347 thunders north on the Missabe Subdivision after having PTC issues. Heavy snow begins to fall, quite the foreign visitor for the Iron Range territory leads. CN 3023, the EJ&E heritage leads th... (more)

Flying through Sax, M347 thunders north on the Missabe Subdivision with a foreign visitor for the Iron Range territory. CN 3023, the EJ&E heritage leads the way up front, with hundreds of empty ce... (more)