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)

A nice little display courtesy of the Minnesota Transportation Museum. BN 325 and Northern Pacific Railway Post Office/Combine Car No. 1102 where on display at St. Paul Union Depot for Train Days.

While the heavy snow is falling southbound DMIR 407 is passing it's northbound empty counterpart near Gilbert, MN and is throttling back up to track speed continuing it's trek to Two Harbors after... (more)

The controls of the D&NE #28, which is currently sitting in the shop it once called home many years ago, this ex-DM&IR #332 2-8-0 now owned by the Lake Superior Railroad Museum is undergoing a co... (more)

Dashing through the snow? Still. A pair of the Dash 8's pull taconite rock south as northern Minnesota gets more snow. Still.

Sitting along U.S. highway 53 in Trego, Wisconsin, WGN #862, a former Milwaukee Road SW-1 built in 1940, sitting idle soaking up some fall sunshine on it's Great Northern inspired paint scheme alo... (more)

Both the IBCX 4210 and 4214 say their final goodbyes to what is left of the former Erie Mining plant and property and for the first time since 1957, there are no F units at the former Erie Mining ... (more)

Idling away on a Saturday night in the CN Biwabik yard. Local law enforcement was approaching and in turn providing a little background lighting. After some questioning it seems there wasn't a ... (more)

Four old GE's from the Minnesota Commercial Railroad thunder through the BNSF intermodal yard at Midway with a 90 car sand train for interchange with the BNSF in St. Paul where it will in turn hea... (more)

A 1906 vintage 50 ton ore car, one of the first all steel ore cars built for the Missabe, donated to the Soudan Underground State Park by the DMIR in 1972. This car was one of 4,250 cars of this ... (more)

After another day full of various excursion runs between Duluth and different points along the North Shore of Lake Superior, NSSR workers move cars around in the yard at the Depot getting ready fo... (more)

The crew members park their ride and take a break from switching loads and empties at the large CHS elevator in Superior, WI. Soon enough they will be back at it with this nice looking SW9 provid... (more)

The afternoon Proctor Road Switch job brings limestone loads up the ramp from Missabe Jct. and will soon tackle Proctor Hill in route to Proctor yard. That's quite the pile of taconite pellets on... (more)

The big workhorse SW1000 shuffles and switches cars in the yard at Sappi Paper in Cloquet on a cold December 1st as the hustle and bustle of the mill goes on in the background.

Maroon locomotives and Missabe ore cars at Proctor yard. The good old days.