Three 400s power a steaming cargo of taconite pellets through Alborn, en route to Escanaba, Michigan.

BNSF is cold weather testing their LNG set on trains between Duluth/Superior and Minneapolis for a few weeks. BNSF 5815, BNSF 9131, tender BNSF 933501 along with test cars 82 and 83 make up the se... (more)

A rare occurrence found 403 working as the dock switch in Two Harbors. The locomotive is one of only two still remaining in full Missabe paint and lettering. Here it spots vintage Missabe ore cars... (more)

A main line of marbles...taconite (iron ore) pellets blanket the former DM&IR Proctor Hill line in Duluth.

One of two heavy duty GE center cabs the C&NW tested rests at the South St. Paul engine facility.

Max Medlin prepares for another run-by as the photo line gathers.

The pure simplicity of the controls in Soo FP7A 2500A contrasts sharply with today's modern locomotives.

Eileen Laakso has the honor of christening D&NE steam locomotive 28 at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum on National Train Day. The former DM&IR 2-8-0 (No. 332) will be used to pull passenger trai... (more)

CN operations at Proctor are slowly returning to normal after two feet of snow.

An eastbound stack train passes the most photographed barn in Montana.

This SD40-2 showed up at St. Paul looking like it was fresh out of the paint booth wearing the Milwaukee's final "Hiawatha" scheme.

A CP unit shuttles a lone grain car towards their yard while the British-flagged ocean vessel Johanna C unloads wind turbine blades at the port of Duluth.

A view of the rotary dumper at CSX's Presque Isle coal dock in Toledo. Two loaded cars are entering the dumper on the right and in the process push two empty cars out the left side and down the gr... (more)

EJ&E 674 leads a light power set off local 593 in Two Harbors as DM&IR SD38-2 215 switches new CN ore cars in the yard.

This wrecking crane doubles as a sign holder for this nice railroad museum near Monon.