Everything looks to be staged and ready to go for the next shift but today all is quiet on this early Sunday morning at Gerdau Ameristeel, formerly Newport Steel, where they recycle construction d... (more)

A "unit train" of speeder cars lines up and members talk about the day ahead while watching operations on the CN ore dock as they prepare to depart the former DM&IR depot in Two Harbors for a 27.9... (more)

Born in 1956, destroyed in 2014. Parts and some unidentifiable pieces that once belonged to either Erie Mining F9(B) units 4223, 4224 or 4225 lay strewn about behind Erie Mining F9(A) 4210 as a co... (more)

One of the once mighty Erie Mining/ LTV Steel EMD built F9(A) units, EMCO 4214 sits in the weeds in a small three track yard on Cliffs Erie property waiting to be moved off property due to being s... (more)

The end of an era. Another chapter in the storied book on Minnesota's Iron Range has come to an end. Within minutes, CN power will arrive and pull these two former Erie Mining, then later LTV S... (more)

Built in 1961, dismantled in 2019. Bridge no. 9482 was built to carry millions of tons of natural iron ore from mine pits near Eveleth, MN and included Fayal 1, 2 and 3, Cloquet Annex, Pearsall, ... (more)

Many railfans have often wondered what happens to the taconite pellets that fall off of or drop through the ore cars as they travel from the mine to the ore docks. Well here is the answer. Throw ... (more)

One of the two remaining Erie Mining Co. F units still on the old Erie Mining Co. ( later LTV Steel and now Cliffs Erie ) property stares at the remains of her sister F9(B) units 4224, 4223, and 4... (more)

CN Two Harbors yard is the final destination in Minnesota for some of the taconite pellets made at the Iron Range's taconite plants. Most of what is stored here are from the Minorca mine and Min... (more)

After a day of spotting and switching grain cars around, the switchers of the CHS elevator is Superior are done for the day and tied up and the crews have gone home until they come back and start ... (more)

The road less traveled? Run! Protecting the shove? Good for....unlimited? I'm free! We're free!! Run far, run fast? Quick, nobody's looking. Slowly just walk away. BNSF had a slight issue whil... (more)

Former Erie Mining and later LTV Steel Alco RS-11 #7209 sits under the Hinsdale bridge and next to the former Missabe RR's Hinsdale branch waiting for movement to it's new owner, Mesabi Nugget, wh... (more)

A couple of F's at the Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad as a former C&NW F7A rolls past a parade float.

A nice looking CN business train rolls down the Missabe Sub after leaving Rainer and travelling down the CN Rainy Sub. earlier in the morning. CN 2297 and CN 2226 have the honors and are all spif... (more)

Erie Mining/LTV Steel owned three Alco C420’s. Number 7222 was delivered as # 602 in 1965 and in 1991 was assigned to the Hoyt Lakes plant site where it worked crude ore trains hauling rock from... (more)