IC 6263 and DMIR 400 are two of 14 units stored at the former DM&IR shops in Proctor, Minnesota. These roundhouse stalls saw active steam until the early 1960s.

Steaming taconite pellets and blowing snow make this look as cold as it was with a -25F windchill but this is by far the best time of the year to shoot ore railroading in northern Minnesota (plent... (more)

A pair of former BN SD40-2s are no stranger to cold weather railroading as they lug a 140-car ore train south towards Proctor on a crisp +7F afternoon (windchill well below zero).

CN #331, the IC 6263 North rolls by the NS 8728 South waiting in the siding at Duplainville.

Dubuque switcher heading for center siding, IEI and Phoenix chemical

This trio of IC units leaving Mays Yard is led by a CN locomotive with an IC designation.

CN job M340 heads back toward Jackson after turning in Hattiesburg.