Three BN test SD60MACs lead train 20 east through Rapids on the MRL. Interesting paint scheme.

A typical hot and hazy summer afternoon in the Chicago area finds the crew of this IHB switch job protecting the shove from the platform for a Conrail caboose. I'm sure this wasn't the IHB's most ... (more)

Rare move on the former LTV Steel Mining Company railroad in northeastern Minnesota. Moving grinding mill parts that have been sold. Note modified side dumps used for the haul.

A young boy catches a glimpse of Soo Line caboose No. 1 as is disappears in a haze of coal smoke produced by 2719 as it rolled through downtown Duluth.

With the dormant and stripped former DM&IR ore dock No. 5 as a backdrop, a large front end loader fills side dump cars at Hallett Dock. The limestone is used in the production of taconite pellets ... (more)

Westbound Superior to Grand Forks manifest dispenses with a plow ridge in downtown Cloquet.

A rare 1913 GE diesel electric owned by the Minnesota Transportation Museum was used to haul tourists on Duluth's Lake Superior & Mississippi line in 1981. This locomotive was originally used on t... (more)

A special high-wide load of pressure vessels headed for the Alberta oil sands project eases across the swing bridge connecting Duluth and Superior. Most of these loads now go via Thunder Bay, Ont... (more)

BNSF B&B employees inspect this new bridge as the first train to use it crosses over. This is how the previous culvert looked after being washed out in June 2012 as viewed from the other side: htt... (more)

Built by Alco in 1941 for the South Buffalo Railway as their 73 then to Fort Howard Paper Company (now Georgia-Pacific - Green Bay Mill) as their 63-146. The museum acquired the engine in 2006 and... (more)

A Mineral Range train of empty covered gondolas has arrived at the copper/nickel processing plant and is about to run around their train for the shove into the loading facility.

GN "Hustle Muscle" shines after having been repainted by BN at their Grand Forks, ND facility. The first production SD45 (owned by the GN Historical Society) now resides at the Minnesota Transport... (more)

The crew of M345 climbs back aboard their train after inspecting Q198 at North Steelton. The power for the stack train can be seen in the distance entering Wisconsin on the double-deck Oliver Brid... (more)

A BNSF yard job has just pulled a boxcar of hardboard out of the Georgia Pacific plant along Duluth's waterfront. The prior day GP announced that they would close this plant at the end of the mont... (more)

A lone CP ECO catches the last rays of light as it picks up a pair of scrap cars from BNSF's yard in Duluth.