The weeds tell the story - shuttered since 2001, the former LTV Steel Mining Company ore pelletizing plant will be scrapped, but hopefully the F9s will find new life.

This former Illinois Central (Columbus & Greenville) SW-1 makes a rare appearance at the south end of the large CHS grain complex. Providing a nice backdrop is the idled ore carrier Edward L. Ryer... (more)

A replica of President Lincoln's funeral car is unloaded at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. The museum will display the car, with related artifacts, from June through September. Built by Dave K... (more)

Dry conditions combined with a stiff breeze fanned sparks from a rail grinder into a moderate grass fire. Crews on the grinder and those following on a special Northshore Mining fire train doused ... (more)

Recently painted NP SD45 3617 with an ore train near Duluth. This locomotive was the star attraction at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum's railfan weekend coordinated by Steve Glischinski. CN loa... (more)

A ballast slot train led by IC C40-8 2456 deposits rock along the new second main track on CN's former DM&IR Steelton Hill mainline as track crews prepare to open the route for traffic in October ... (more)

A nice orange and black upload on Halloween. I'm sure the scary thing was the mechanical condition these refugees from Lines West were in when they showed up for storage in Minneapolis. This area ... (more)

The Milwaukee Road had a great paint scheme for Halloween. For most former Milwaukee Road locomotives the scary part (black "bandit" patch jobs) was yet to come as here 205 still wears i... (more)

Eastbound stack train rumbles across the middle fork of the Flathead River east of Essex.

The buds of spring. With Lake Superior in the distance, Budd-built track evaluation RDC 1501 sprints up Proctor Hill as trees are starting to show fresh buds. This RDC-1 was originally built as CN... (more)

Inside ArcelorMittal's sprawling former Inland Steel mill complex a SW1001 shoves a string of bottle cars filled with glowing molten steel.

Two former GN locomotives look sharp in their clean Cascade Green as they prepare to lead a passenger extra from Duluth to Iron River, Wisconsin for underprivileged children.

A nice surprise on a southbound manifest late in the day found CN's Tier 4 class unit still fairly fresh from GE. I was surprised by how much open screening there is at the rear of the unit - shad... (more)

BNSF is cold weather testing their LNG set on trains between Duluth/Superior and Minneapolis for a few weeks. Here the southbound rolls through Foxboro on its way to Northtown.

A former Milwaukee Road café-parlor car sits landlocked on a ranch near Livingston. It had been used in maintenance-of-way service before being sold for private use.