After waiting for a northbound container train to pass, DMIR 400 now has signals to head south out of the yard at United Taconite and begins the trip back to Proctor yard down the CN Missabe sub.

MNNR 43 leads empty lumber cars through Lauderdale MN.

MNNR 43 leads empty lumber cars through Roseville MN.

MNNR 43 leads empty lumber cars through Roseville MN.

Just beating out the long shadows towards the end of the afternoon, an all EMD power set leads an empty limestone train down from the Minntac taconite plant and heads for Proctor.

Still a somewhat shiny new leader running down the CN Rainy Sub crossing the Ramshaw diamond as they head south.

More marbles from the Minntac taconite plant bound for Two Harbors.

After coming down from Ranier, MN and now having completed their work at Keenan yard, L568 is on the move south with a healthy 400 axels train for Proctor.

A cold early morning departure has some steam coming off the new pellets as they descend down the hill from the Minntac taconite plant.

A pair of Northfolk Southern units waiting for signal by Highway 280 in St. Paul.

The limestone cliffs of Dayton's bluff tower over TCWR 2016 in St. Paul.

Working its way toward Minneapolis with some grain loads from North Redwood, an eastbound train crosses Sulphur Lake near the former Minneapolis & St Louis Railway division point of Morton, MN. It... (more)

An eastbound train rolls along the Minnesota Prairie Line between Fairfax and Gibbon. The vast and fertile farmland of west central Minnesota would normally be covered in a blanket of deep snow at... (more)

Evidence of some work on the Excel Energy transmission lines sits nearby as an eastbound train slowly makes its way along the Minnesota Prairie Line east of Franklin, MN on a breezy but mild Febru... (more)

BNSF 6903 heads east in St. Paul with a bald eagle soaring above.