Leased to Northern Plains railroad for use at the former Magnetation Jessie Loadout Facility location by Prairie River Minerals (PRM) this former Burlington Northern caboose painted into DM&IR col... (more)

After a week of mechcanical issues, this Loram DC-1 ditch digging beast is back underway with it's well-qualified, well-trained crew on board. The Loram Ditcher is a self-propelled system that i... (more)

DMIR 402, DMIR 403 and DMIR 408 sit on the curve for the approach to the CN dock 6 and stare at a red signal, waiting to return to Proctor yard with the empties.

It just looks cold and in actuality, it was. The day job of the CTRR uses their SW1000 #35 to do switching for the Sappi Fine Paper plant on this cold and clear January day.

Two EJ&E units prepare to push a large CN train up Steelton Hill. That's CN's Oliver Bridge linking Wisconsin and Minnesota in the backround where the trains travel on top and vehicles travel bel... (more)

We bake them, You take them. CN 3222, CN 2990, CSX 766 and DP unit CN 2853 come down from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant with hoppers full of fresh, still steaming taconite pellets bound for Prince... (more)

Lots of goodies to look at down at the Depot in downtown Duluth. Wisconsin Central SD45 # 7495, DM&IR SD18 #193, Hallet Dock FM H10-44 #11, Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Alco RS-1 #101, a woma... (more)

It's daybreak and the sun rises just high enough over the CP Pig's Eye yard and shops to see a BNSF transfer crew picking up cars as they snake their way past the old roundhouse and shop building.... (more)

Factory fresh Loram RGS Specialty Grinder RGS 8 works on the Missabe Sub at Iron Jct. grinding rail for CN.

A mere 15 miles off pavement and down a logging road into the woods of northern Minnesota you will come across the Skibo Road crossing at M.P. 43 on the NSM RR. Rumor had it this was the most rem... (more)

NSSR 9169, reportedly the oldest operating RDC in the United States, is all decorated for the Christmas City Express. This former C&NW RDC shuttles passengers on a short run from the Fitgers Br... (more)

For Sale: One slightly used Alco C420. Assigned to the mine hauls for it's entire time at EMCO / LTVSMC, this beauty never saw mainline service. Now the old Alco sits in the weeds in the shadows o... (more)

Proctor Transfer power checks the switches as they roll past DM&IR 403/215, working the E-Lead job within the yard, as train A439 prepares to double their train in the distance.

One of Illinois Central's Death Star locomotives leads 102 loads of raw taconite southbound around the half way point between United Taconite's mine and the processing plant

A couple of CN M.O.W. employees work to clear snow across the Ramshaw diamond on the last day of 2013. The Hi-Rail Blower, appropriately named Air Forced 1, is pretty loud and fairly effective i... (more)