Lifting heavy wet coarse tailings up from the plant at Silver Bay to the tailings pond at m.p. 7. The veteran EMDs and the tall searchlights make for a good day.

The Keenan local crew comes up the former DMIR Hinsdale branch empty handed after their paperwork numbers didn't match the cars being stored at the former Erie Mining property, so they were told t... (more)

Ripping along the CN Iron Range sub at track speed about to split the signals at Jones as they head back to Two Harbors.

An early morning trip north from Proctor results in a morning trip back to Proctor with taconite loads.

Canadian Pacific SD40-2 6059 (class DRF-30w, built by GMD in November 1984) pulls a local of grain hoppers out of the small yard in Red Wing, adjacent to the ADM elevator, and heads west along the... (more)

A train slowly makes its way west through Belview, MN on a sweltering July evening as the boys of the Rigge family look on from the platform of the nicely restored Minneapolis & St Louis Railway d... (more)

A Twin Cities & Western crew has arrived at one of the western-most customers on the Minnesota Prairie Line and is proceeding to pick up and set out covered hoppers at the elevator in Echo, MN. Th... (more)

A Union Pacific local, with "GP38-3" 2507 and GP39-2 2732 for power, rolls into Hoffman Yard. UP 2507 is a rebuilt GP40 leased from Helm Leasing. It was originally Louisville & Nashvil... (more)

A westbound loaded sand train behind a Union Pacific SD70ACe departs Glenwood Yard on the Elbow Lake Subdivision. The ties in the foreground are remnants of an interchange track that once connecte... (more)

An eastbound train arrives into Glenwood Yard off of the Detroit Lakes Subdivision from Winnipeg.

The seemingly new normal of wildfire smoke. A little early morning fog, some wildfire smoke from Canada and steam coming off the fresh made pellets as they travel south for Two Harbors.

Loaded CN iron ore train U718 has taken the siding at Alborn, Minnesota and the conductor is on the ground for a roll by inspection of northbound manifest M344, which had a few cars of stick rail ... (more)

Frack sand hoppers in tow on the Skally Line. The St. Scroix Valley operates on one of three short sections of the Northern Pacific's Skally Line. The other two: one small stretch in Minneapolis; ... (more)

The gloom of a wet and cold October morning is no match for these vibrant autumn yellows as they brightly dress the surrounding northern Minnesota landscape with their seasonal shades, looking on ... (more)

Ore for export from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant heads south bound for Convent, Louisiana.