Coming down the hill and out of the thick fog, CN 2160 leads 141 cars of steaming taconite pellets from U.S. Steel Minntac with a destination for today anyway of the yard at Proctor. From there th... (more)

The Proctor Road Switch cuts off the twenty eight loads of limestone they just brought up the hill from Duluth and head back towards the diesel house for the next assignment inside a once again bu... (more)

The Miscellaneous Road Freight or MRF heads through Biwabik heading for Allen Jct. with 30 loads of coal which will end up at the new Mesabi Nugget plant and 9 centerbeams to be dropped off on the... (more)

SOO 2719 shoves back to the Depot in downtown Duluth to drop off passengers who spent the day riding to Two Harbors and back along the shores of Lake Superior ans the North Shore Scenic Railroad.

It's almost midnight and a light fog/rain/drizzle mix is in the air as a pair of signals protect the CN Iron Range Sub. at M.P. 66.3. In all types of weather, night or day they do their job.

Snow and steam all over as a trio of SD40-3's pull down from Minntac with 137 loads of iron ore pellets which will end up at Two Harbors.

With the Christmas lights from the hotel across the street reflecting off the low cloud ceiling, CN 5636 and CN 2338 and with what must be a low priority mixed freight hold the siding in the form... (more)

Sitting in the weeds at Spooner, Wisconsin's Railroad Memories Museum is this SW1 built by Electro-Motive in November 1940 and retired in May 1980. It was then sold as Superior Tie & Timber Co. 7... (more)

Even on cold days the railroads keep running. DM&IR 210 and crew braved the -20 degree weather and have just retrived 24 freshly rebuilt ore cars and several other misc. cars from Shelton Jct. a... (more)

Ore vs. Oil at Ramshaw. Oil empties, U734, wait in the clear as taconite loads, U793, cross over the ex-DWP Rainy Sub while on the ex-DMIR Iron Range Sub.

The old crew gets off and the new crew prepares to get on to take the new CN/DMIR ore cars loaded with Minntac iron ore pellets over the scale at Highland to weigh the train in preparation for the... (more)

Some leftover parts of what used to be the once mighty Erie Mining Co. and later LTV Steel sit dead and drained. The 4214 and 4210 have been moved and will live on at the Vermillion Valley RR and... (more)

After a hard trip busting drifts and breaking trail during a late season snowstorm coming back from Taconite Harbor, Erie Mining Company F9(A) #4210 and three (B) units park off to the side of the... (more)

Returned earlier this spring to Rush City in it's 1960's NP stlye livery from the Thief River Falls Independent Locomotives Services paint booth, this GP9 joins the other member of the fleet, the ... (more)

The new job on the former Missabe is the Biwabik Switch. Here the crew gets ready to leave Biwabik Yard with fifty-six empties under the cover of an early morning fog. The crew will head to Minn... (more)