As the clouds moved in it was a lucky break to have a sliver of full sun between late afternoon shadows and clouds taking over to catch this northbound empty train coming off the running track aft... (more)

After passing through Grand Rapids, MN BNSF 251 and 252 continue east on the BNSF Lakes sub passing over the Prairie river with their manifest train in tow.

CN 3035 is rumbling north up the Missabe sub knocking down the signal at Wolf along main two taking a right turn for them heading towards Shelton Jct. and the Rainy sub bound for Canada. This sig... (more)

Heading back to their namesake yard, the Kelly Lake local knocks the snow off while rumbling across the large steel Missabe era trestle along the CN Keenan sub with 6 cars in tow after serving the... (more)

The snow has turned to a slight drizzle as fresh CN 3069 rumbles thru the former DW&P yard continuing up the Rainy sub at Virginia, MN heading to the Canadian border with a 440 axel very much phot... (more)

A little snow mixed with rain is falling on a dark and gloomy Sunday afternoon with CN's privatization celebration heritage unit paying homage to the Wisconsin Central, CN 3069 leading Q117 on the... (more)

Never know what a person may see while trackside. Northshore Mining has received 5 new to them ex- CSX EMD SD70ACe's for moving taconite rock from their mine at Babbitt, MN down to their plant at... (more)

CN 2027 with taconite pellets from the Minorca mine is crossing over the former Duluth Missabe and Northern (DM&N) then it was the DMIR and now it's the CN bridge along the CN Iron Range Sub for T... (more)

A brief break in the fog that's rolling across the yard affords the crew of CN 2020 some better vision.

After handing off to a CN crew to load this all-rail train at U.S. Steel Minntac, it is now back with a BNSF crew as they head back west (RR north) along the CN Keenan Sub while crossing one of th... (more)

Due to congestion on the CN, a late-running Kelly Lake Local coming back from the Minorca mine with five empty bentonite cars slowly cruising by the former GN depot in Hibbing, MN on a Friday afte... (more)

BNSF all-rail UKESMAD0-10T rolls slowly through Bob Dylan's hometown of Hibbing, MN and the old depot as they head back west to Kelly Lake then turn south for a trip to Granite City near St. Louis... (more)

Saturday dawned gloomy and gray on the first day of a “stay at home” order in Minnesota. A nice walk (permissible) to the top of an old mine dump offered this view of part of the community of... (more)

Oil vs Ore. This time the oil won as they cross over the Ramshaw diamond first while an empty taconite train holds at the signal on the CN Iron Range sub. watching them go by.

Running at track speed, CN 3061 leading a unit train of oil cans roars through the small community of Orr, MN (pop. 267) as they travel from Canada to points south down the CN Rainy Sub.