What are the chances in 2014 to catch a Soo Line unit in active service for CP passing by Soo's first extended vision caboose? Fairly good if you were in Duluth on January 18 when a CP transfer pa... (more)
Despite the watering of ore as it is dumped (visible under the train), a stiff northwest wind has whipped up quite the dust cloud. The 1000-footer James R. Barker is in the process of loading whil... (more)
While LTV (Erie Mining) ore trains were best known for their F9s, this set of five Geeps was well worth the drive as they moved an ore train east towards Taconite Harbor on a beautiful summer morn... (more)
A nice Cascade Green consist rolls an intermodal eastbound out of the Rockies on the former Great Northern.
The operator has his train of empty ore cars well in hand as we approach the crossover at milepost 12.5. This train was following a loaded tailings train back to Babbitt and had two leased CREX GE... (more)
This was the only time that UP's big Centennial ever visited the Twin Ports. It was powering an engineering inspection train and came up from St. Paul over BNSF and went south into Wisconsin over ... (more)
After the LTV Steel Mining Company ceased ore production in 2001 their mainline to Taconite Harbor was shuttered. However, in November 2002 Minnesota Power tested running coal trains from their po... (more)
A few months after the UP purchased the North Western things appear as usual as this train rolls into downtown St. Paul and in the process crosses over the Mississippi River.
A nice trio of standard cab EMDs deliver side dump cars to Hallett Dock for limestone loading.
A nice trio of standard cab EMDs pierce through the shadows of a loaded ore train waiting to be dumped.
A pair of former Frisco switchers shove gondolas loaded with scrap towards Rices Point as a CN ore train arrives overhead.
A Soo Line geep passes by restored caboose No. 1. The caboose and three passenger cars are on their way to heated storage at CN's Pokegama (Superior, WI) shop.
Nosed into a snow bank, this GP35 provides back-up power for a GP9 that does most of the switching here.
