One of the Erie Mining company's F9(A) units and three B units seen in better days when they were used to haul cars of pellet remains and fines after workers cleaned out the Taconite Harbor dock. ... (more)

Retired DMIR 419 leads a four unit Missabe maroon consist on an afternoon limestone train from Minntac. The cold temps prevented some of the cars from dumping at Minntac so they will be returned ... (more)

You can almost hear a cry for mommy as EJ&E 665 sits alone in the small yard with it's back to the thunderstorm that's moving in.

PRLX 2643, ex-NS SD70M leads empties west back to the mine at Babbitt from the plant at Silver Bay, MN. The very basic very bland and very black PRLX unit is one of two PRLX SD70M loaners NSM is u... (more)

After a good snowstorm, DMIR 206,209,and 213 wait with a full train to head south.

Work continues on the D&NE #28, as it's 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 being cosmetically resto... (more)

The Glen Mine trolley runs past Mesaba Junction and heads to the barn for the night after a day of hauling tourists around the Minnesota Discovery grounds. Some more info on the trolley follows: ... (more)

Because CN owns seemingly almost everything, a person never knows what to expect when out railfanning. Example, here is I.C. 6204 and EJ&E 662 in Superior Wisconsin doing work dropping off cars a... (more)

Lots of action and lots of red and white near CP's Pigs Eye Yard as a local transfer waits to head out but they have to first wait for another transfer job to return and clear and a road train wit... (more)

A T-Bird train carring raw ore from the mine towards the plant crosses over the yet unfrozen St. Louis river during a snowfall.

DM&IR 403 heads down the Missabe Sub and will soon take a left turn onto the Iron Range Sub towards Two Harbors and complete the trip delivering 120 loads of taconite pellets. The "new" CN/DM&IR ... (more)

The only iron ore train leaving the Iron Range today from the only one of the six taconite plants producing pellets today a pair of repainted former Missabe tunnel motors pull the 140 cars of stil... (more)

After a brief thunderstorm passes and the sun returns for a perfect evening, the EJ&E 660 sits tied to a Herzog unit train of ballast hoppers at the former DWP yard in Virginia, MN

Bare bones Baldwin. A Baldwin Locomotive Works 2-8-0 cab interior is stripped down to the very bare essentials but is in otherwise surprisingly good shape and graffiti free considering it's not fe... (more)

It's longest day of the year and the CN yard at Virginia is full of ballast trains in a variety of lengths and car types. The cars are all loaded at the near-by Prindle pit siding where they crush... (more)