Snow cakes the nose of 6252 as it works a dumper job at Two Harbors.

With both BNSF-served taconite iron ore mines closed due to soft demand for steel, most of the railroad's fleet of ore cars is currently stored with the exception of a few sets running to U.S. Ste... (more)

Eastbound Empire Builder ascends Marias Pass while the "locals" seem oblivious.

A pair of Soo Line geeps shove a string of heavy duty flats into the port.

Normally stored during the winter, a mechanical issue with the Lake Superior Railroad Museum's Missabe SD18 193 forced Soo 2500A into service. Here the stunning FP7A leads ex-Missabe 316 south wit... (more)

The large side blades on BNSF's former GN snow dozers make for a great tool to clear off yard tracks. However the south ladder track looks like it could use a rotary plow (they plow snow onto the ... (more)

A pair of rebuilt geeps lead a passenger extra for mining engineers on the loading loop at National Taconite.

BNSF's second bridge over the Pecos River bottleneck at Fort Sumner, New Mexico was scheduled to be placed into service today (July 25, 2016). A little over two months prior westbound QCXOLAC1-13L... (more)

A loaded grain trains eases down Marias Pass after an early season snow the night before.

A sharp looking GN passenger train lead by a rare restored NW-5 was assembled for a railfan weekend sponsored by the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, coordinated by Steve Glischinski.

A former Erie Mining (LTV Steel Mining Company) RS-11 at the dock in Taconite Harbor.

A loaded limestone train for Minntac heads for Proctor while another Proctor Roadswitch crew positions an ore train for dumping.

A special Grand Trunk Corporation/Milwaukee Road inspection train heads towards Chicago and the in process rolls past a BN SD9 switching cars in a former NP yard. A new connection for unit coal tr... (more)

GN 400 "Hustle Muscle" - owned by the GNRHS - and NP 3617 pose side-by-side at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth. Hustle Muscle is serviceable and 3617 is nearing operational s... (more)

A double rainbow adds color above a rear distributed power unit on a loaded ore train at Allouez yard in Superior.