Across the mighty Mississippi river from downtown St. Paul MN, a small trackmobile works spotting cars for loading at a CHS fertilizer facility while a clam bucket equipped excavator empties a bar... (more)

There are currently six of these C40-8 units assigned to the former Missabe to move tonnage. Here are two of them working T-Bird service returning to the mine for more taconite rock.

It's a cold day in Cloquet for the BNSF crew as they work to set out their cars for Sappi.

A welding crew takes some time to stand at a safe distance and give a roll-by to CN 2131 that's just received favorable signals to depart the yard and head back to the mine for taconite bearing ro... (more)

Cliffs Erie Railroad workers remove what is left of the chips and fines that were left in the dock after operations at the mine ceased.

Two freshly painted C40-8's assigned to the former Missabe to move tonnage, one having the special CN paint scheme celebrating 15 years of privatization, pull taconite loads sothward after loading... (more)

The new Green Line is up and running along University Ave between St. Paul and Minneapolis. Here is another train leaving the station near the Minnesota State Capitol on a hot and humid Sunday af... (more)

Done for the week, the SCXY 1325 rests inside the plush and fairly new shop building at corporate headquarters in Rush City.

The end of an era. Another chapter in the storied book on Minnesota's Iron Range has come to an end with the removal of the last two F9A units from the former Erie Mining property. Here they tra... (more)

The DM&IR 403, the last Missabe maroon SD40-3 on the CN roster, makes any consist look good especially when it's leading. Here the crew throws a little exhaust into the air as they head south dow... (more)

It's always fun to watch and listen to some of the impressive machinery railroad use to keep the freight moving in a safe and timely manner. Loram has made a successful business by building, oper... (more)

A pair of SD38-2's in true Missabe colors team up together.

On a late fall afternoon near the small northern Minnesota mining town of Biwabik, DM&IR 211 and GTW 6221 pull one gondola and two tank cars north on the Iron Range Subdivision heading for Keenan ... (more)

After delivering the loads of taconite to Silver Bay the crew grabs a cut of empties and turns and burns back to Babbitt to reload. The white plume of exhaust from the plant can be seen on the hor... (more)

Roster shot of SW1200 Hallett 11. This unit started in 1949 on the C&O, then to the EJ&E, then to the DM&IR, then to CN when it was retired in 2006. It was acquired by Hallett Dock Co. in Duluth,... (more)