Empties from Two Harbors take the siding at Biwabik and will wait briefly for their counterpart loads that will be coming shortly.

A trio of dash 8s bring empties north on the Iron Range Sub.

CN 2123 & 8955 lead X33791 06 past the old Beth Siding. If memory serves, only half a year prior, the rails were still standing, but alas, time moves on. Looking back at this, I'm incredibly thank... (more)

Limestone empties head downhill on a code blue morning.

Chicago & North Western hauls a loaded coal train south. Meanwhile Burlington Northern hauls a load coal train North on the opposite rail. This is one of those train my dad was probably kind of me... (more)

A Rock Island Rail Freight Train heads south through Webb, MS., On their way to Albin for a Firework photoshoot.

A Rock Island Rail freight train is seen here staged in the Mississippi Delta at Albin, MS., during a firework photoshoot.

Pellets from the Minorca mine (the pit is coincidently located behind the train about a mile but the processing plant is located north of Virginia, MN off the CN Rainy sub about an hour behind the... (more)

After spending the better part of daylight dumping limestone at U.S. Steel Minntac it's now time to head back south to Proctor yard.

Spring brown season is in full display but the sun was out and a train was moving pellets south on the CN Missabe sub.

A nice quiet wait in anticipation of a train coming into view. Then the train comes around the bend and gets closer and closer rising and falling along the hills and sags of the mainline. Pretty s... (more)

Coming back from Two Harbors, MN passing through the old mine dumps of past mining days here at Gilbert, MN.

How quickly things change, with all the recent retiring and scrapping of units you’d be hard pressed to find even a basic set of power like this kicking around today. Here the daily westbound Ka... (more)