The prairie sun sets during harvest time on the MPLI (ex-M&St.L Railway) at Fairfax, MN.
White Pine Copper Refinery's SW1 does some light switching in the small yard. The future was uncertain at this point and the plant shut down a year later.
A St. Croix Valley Railroad ILSX unit has the Memorial weekend off and rests at its headquarters in Rush City.
ELS 402 with a mixed train of empty taconite cars and log cars heads north just south of Amberg WI. The crew would reach their hours of service in a few hundred yards where a cab was ready to rel... (more)
A trio of green, including the more rare BN 7500, leads an all red Hyundai stack train into Northtown.
Graffiti adorns both a container box and the first auto rack in this autorack train approaching Park Jct.
The BN had a lot of lease power in the mid 90's, including LMX B39-8's and the nine ex-Reserve Mining SD38-2's on this manifest train.
A CPR coal train headed for the Columbia power plant near Portage WI is pulling out of Shoreham and onto the BN at University Avenue.
The 2016 Fall Foliage Special nears its destination of Winthrop. With no wye at Winthrop, a TC&W RR diesel will couple onto the rear end to pull it back east to the Twin Cities.
Amtrak Empire Builder #8 is running about an hour and a half late here.
A Twin Cities and Western Railroad 1950 built CF7 is parked at Glencoe.
Minnesota Commercial 88 and several other snow covered units await busier times on the railroad.
An eastbound hot intermodal passes Northtown Yard at University Avenue. A cut of loaded NSPX (Northern States Power, now Xcel Energy) coal cars for delivery to the Riverside plant is on the adjac... (more)
Northshore Mining ran an extra train, complete with a SD18 and SD28 trailing, as seen here near MP 5 approaching Silver Bay MN.
The first in the new 6600 series ES44C4's leads a stack train eastbound into Elk River MN.
