Pulling off the CN Rainy sub at Minorca Jct. and continue the slow slog up the grade with limestone loads for delivery to the Minorca taconite plant on this early summer morning.

Moving limestone from Proctor up the CN Missabe Sub heading to deliver at Minntac.

B&LE tunnel motor 906 leads the Two Harbors MRF South through Iron Junction.

Early morning run from Proctor to the Minorca mine with limestone.

With a pair of Bessemer tunnel motors bracketing an SD40-2W, Canadian National dock job R921 shoves out on to Dock 6 in Duluth, Minnesota with a train of loaded ore hoppers for unloading. Alongsid... (more)

Missabe Miracle… high fives went all around the St. Louis River Road bridge In Proctor, MN on June 6, 2022 as the 17:00 E Lead job kicks cars at DMIR’s old Proctor yard in golden hour sun with... (more)

It was as cold as it looks.

After meeting a northbound intermodal core train, CN loaded iron ore train U717 pulls out of the siding at the south end of Coons in Saginaw, Minnesota. Steam wafts off the cars as the freshly bak... (more)

After dumping limestone for the Minorca mine and then waiting for traffic to clear on the CN Rainy sub, a trio of BLEs finally depart the plant for the trip back to the yard at Proctor just about ... (more)

Cutting through the long shadows of a short winter afternoon on the way back to Proctor yard.

Lancaster and Chester Railroad came to Lancaster with GP38AC 2866 pulling a train from AmeriSteel. They left the train near the old office building on Main Street and got on board L&C 6002. Origin... (more)

When I planned a recent day out railfanning with the Lancaster and Chester Railroad, my main goal was to get LC 14 with two of their KLW SE32Cs on it. Well, I did it! It was a dream and I accompli... (more)

BLE 906 prepares to depart the Thunderbird mine as another T-bird pulls up behind it

BLE 906 leads ore empties North past the Saginaw depot in the snow

The day after April Fool's Day and CN had this little surprise present itself, DMIR 400 and DMIR 404 leading a pellet train back to Two Harbors from the Minorca taconite plant. The two former Miss... (more)