A passenger extra operated by the Arrowhead Civic Club for underprivileged children rolls east along BN's ex-NP branch line to Ashland, Wisconsin. This line was abandoned in 1985 and removed soon ... (more)

A pair of reactivated SD60Ms work their train south on a frosty morning.

I'm not accustomed to being on the ground and looking DOWN at planes. Four Boeing 737s roll west along the Clark Fork River.

Train A-439 rolls past mechinical department employees who have just forcefully removed a bad order ore car from an adjecent track.

Thick fog greets the first run of the LS&M excursion train for the 2014 season. The remote control sign reflects BNSF switch jobs that also use this former Northern Pacific track. Number 46 is a 5... (more)

Mid-to-late January is traditionally the coldest time of the year in Minnesota and today lived up to that statistic. The reading at nearby Duluth International Airport was -24F with a windchill of... (more)

CSX and UP horsepower payback (to CN) units lead an empty ore train north for loading on the former DM&IR.

Westbound coal empties dust a train of loads in the Chub Lake siding.

Recently released from overhaul and sporting a new paint job and nose lettering, Sd40-3 651 leads SD18 1231, SD28 1234, and leased Alaska GP40-2 3004 southboud near Silver Bay with 155 loads.

The DW&P ran a holiday special for employees from 1977 through 1982 using equipment from the LSRM and Missabe. Here the train has arrived from Virginia and a pair of RS11s will hook onto the rear ... (more)

Veteran SD-M 316 leads an IC SD40-3 and Missabe 413 downgrade with 132 ore loads.

IC 6250 positions ore cars on the top of Dock #1 as the retired DM&IR steam tug Edna G waits for the day's tourists to arrive.

A just delivered "filler" unit from NREX leads a 128-car Northshore Mining ore train towards Silver Bay.

BNSF's Brainerd Local arrives in its namesake from Superior and in the process passes by some of the buildings that made up the massive NP shop complex here. The newer building on the left is stil... (more)

Paying first class to ride in the Milwaukee Road Skytop Cedar Rapids over the former LTVSMC dock at Taconite Harbor in 2002 was worth every penny. The sun came out and illuminated the shuttered do... (more)