After switching a local customer and shoving into the yard at Biwabik the Keenan Switch cuts off their train and will run around to the other end hook up and head back towards Keenan Yard with the... (more)

A couple impressive pieces of machinery, MILW 261 and SOO 2500 hang out briefly at the depot in Duluth, MN.

Former Montana Rail Link EMD GP9 #115 was picked up in Livingston, MT by BNSF and delivered to CN who then delivered it here to Minnesota's Iron Range where it was re-lettered to NSHX (North Shore... (more)

A classic three EMD set of NSM locomotives breaks the silence of the cold northern Minnesota winter wilderness as they pull the loads of raw taconite rock from the mine to the plant. Once they pas... (more)

A quiet and foggy Saturday morning finds newly placed Great Northern caboose X-259 (built 1948) sitting on rails beside the city of Bemidji’s Great Northern Depot which was James J. Hill’s las... (more)

The Metro Transit train is leaving Metrodome Station after dropping off a large group of baseball fans for tonight game.

Teamwork. Two of the many hard working people that make these runs possible. SOO 2719 operates fall excursions run by the North Shore Scenic Railroad for folks to look at the many colors along t... (more)

CN Track Inspector Dan slowly creeps up the Missabe Sub. as he waits for a CN land barge to come off the DWP connecting track and head up the CN Rainy Sub. before he can continue his appointed rou... (more)

CN 3023 leads limestone up the Missabe sub about to get on the Minntac Sub here at Wolf for the final few miles into the U.S. Steel Minntac plant. Neat to see a CN heritage unit pulling DMIR ore c... (more)

Long after most people had left , the crew is still working into the night to get MILW 261 ready for the trip back to Minneapolis. Here they are taking on coal by the light of the moon and with a... (more)

The Mitchell Engine House was built in 1906 by the Duluth, Missabe & Northern Railroad for the sole purpose of servicing the steam locomotives being used at the time to move ore from Minnesota's I... (more)

A couple of impressive pieces of machinery share the yard at the Depot in downtown Duluth, MN.

After a brief pause to allow the passing of a southbound container train on the Rainy Sub at the Ramshaw diamond, it's back on the move again along the Iron Range sub for this U790 going to load t... (more)

A bird's eye view of the Canadian Pacific's Rice's Point yard. Not much going on for a Sunday afternoon as evident by the yard power sitting by the office. The large silo is a cement storage f... (more)

Former EMCO and later LTV Steel and now Cliffs Erie F units 4210 with B units 4224, 4225, and 4223 sit near what was once the pellet yard of Erie Mining Co. and later LTV Steel. These units helped... (more)