A large transfer shoves a cut of cars into the almost full yard at Rice Point as the yard power waits to move it around. The rest of the large 85 transfer waits along the highway to be moved. T... (more)

The two local jobs, one from Keenan yard doing work spotting boxcars for storage and then serving a blasting company, and the other from Two Harbors bringing interchange to Keenan yard cross paths... (more)

Old M.o.W. carts, switch stands, and a quad set of B.O. ore cars loaded with taconite pellets sit at the once busy Biwabik Yard, pieces of history from the former Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Ra... (more)

During a short break in the heavy snow, the sun actually tried to shine through casting slight shadows on the white landscape as train U-717 with 140 loads of fresh steaming taconite pellets roll... (more)

The ABBB set of Cliffs Erie locomotives and 24 cars of chips and fines pokes their head out the west portal of Cramer Tunnel as they continue inland from Taconite Harbor back to CLiffs Erie proper... (more)

Back on home rails! Originally built in 1965 as a SD28 and used at Reserve Mining, this unit was rebuilt by NRE in Dixmoor, Il in 2011 and is now clasified as a SD28-3. With only 2000 h.p. this un... (more)

Working in less than ideal conditions but at least working a logger puts the finishing touches on a load of pulp wood just as the Keenan Switch crew arrives to take the loaded cars away and leave ... (more)

Snow is falling and darkness seems to come early today but the taconite moves no matter what. The crew has finished loading 165 cars and is pulling out of United Taconite bound for Proctor and th... (more)

The original FP7 demonstrator rolls down the BNSF as she teams with DMIR #316 to deliver coal cars back to the BNSF after being stored on the North Shore Scenic Railroad's line for the past severa... (more)

The sun has long since set but the show must go on. A Proctor Road Switch crew works on dumping their train with the help of the dock crew while the Mesabi Miner takes on a load of iron ore pellet... (more)

Early morning at Pig's Eye yard just outside downtown St. Paul, MN finds a plethora of activity with a few yard jobs working, a BNSF transfer picking up cars and a BNSF oil train heading east.

CN 5610 continues it's trek south at track speed along the CN Rainy Sub at 2050 hours on the first night of winter or the longest night of the year.

Hauling commuters out of downtown Minneapolis on a Friday afternoon is what Northstar is all about. Here the 501 has just passed Van Buren on the outskirts of downtown Minneapolis beginning its tr... (more)

Another steaming taconite train loaded at U.S. Steel's Minntac plant make its way south down the CN Missabe sub for Proctor yard on a cold just below freezing temperature morning here in northern ... (more)

The Wisconsin Great Northern is not a Class I railroad operation as indicated by the weeds and brush along the tracks and right of way, however, the Wisconsin Great Northern in a class operation p... (more)