DM&IR 210 and DM&IR 213 lead a small train past the former DM&IR Depot and shops at Biwabik.

SOO 2719 on the North Shore Scenic Railroad mainline heading into Duluth so the crew has to be a little extra careful nobody is on the tracks.

Former EMCO and later LTV Steel and now Cliffs Erie F units 4210 with B units 4224, 4225, and 4223 sit near what was once the massive pellet loading yard of Erie Mining Co. and later LTV Steel. I... (more)

The giant sleeps today. With the ability to dig 16 inches down, move 2000 tons of material per hour while traveling at working speeds of 2 m.p.h. and weighing in at a large 406,000 lbs. not to m... (more)

A quiet snowy Sunday morning is interrupted by CN 5246 and B&LE 909 rattling across the steel bridge deck over the partially frozen St. Louis river pulling 102 carloads of taconite rock.

Loads of fresh pellets steam towards Two Harbors as empties head back to Minntac for more. A couple bad order set-outs and some empty hoppers make Biwabik Yard look like the hub it once was.

Empties behind two ex-CSX but new to them NSM painted SD70ACe's (673 & 671) and NSM 660 a former CN/WC SD40-3 kick up some of the fresh snow and they rumble along the mainline heading west back t... (more)

MD&W SW-10 switching boxcars around at the Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) paper mill in International Falls on a fog and frost filled morning mere feet from the Canadian border.

A very rare visitor to Minnesota's Iron Range and today there were four of them. A quad set of Ferromex GE's charge east at Wilpen, MN with 120 cars for loading at United Taconite's Fairlane pla... (more)

The recently repainted, with a nod to it's NP heritage, GP9 of the St. Croix Valley Railroad operates on a section of NP's former "Skally Line" from Hinckley, MN to Rush City, MN switching various... (more)

While the van waits, the CN crew prepares to tie down this BNSF all-rail taconite train after they finished loading at United Taconite. A new BNSF crew will take the train and begin the trip to Me... (more)

After backing out of Duluth, MILW 261 is now pointed for the Grassy Point swing bridge which separates Minnesota and Wisconsin. The 261 will cross the bridge and begin the trip back to Minneapoli... (more)

The only iron ore pellet train leaving the Iron Range today crosses over the Whiteface River at Kelsey, MN with 140 loads bound for Proctor, MN.

Hallett 12, an EMD SW2, picks up a cut of ore cars just delivered from CN for interchange at Boston Yard. The cars will be spotted at Hallett Dock Co. for the loading of limestone then brought ba... (more)

The St. Croix Valley Railroad is all done for the week switching and spotting cars along a former NP stretch of tracks known as the "Skally" line so they park their engine and wait for Monday to a... (more)