Steam rolls off freshly baked US Steel pellets on a cold and clear Winter afternoon. CN 2032 and company are in charge of the 20,000 ton train heading back to Two Harbors.

The thermometer on my truck said -32F and the detector only 3 miles away gave a reading of 3 degrees colder but the frigid temps aren't hindering CN's ore related business on the Iron Range as a q... (more)

A cold Premium sounded delicious on one of the warmest days of 2018 for Minneapolis, and I'm sure the crew on TCW's SY Turn felt the same way as they crossed the Mississippi with 5300 feet of traf... (more)

And on a snowy afternoon, a trio of Dash 8's hustle an empty limestone train through the same curves.

The new face of the Missabe ore trains looks like this, and I'm still trying to decide whether I like it or not.

20,000 tons of ore pellets descend the 3% grade into Two Harbors with four veteran EMD work horses on the point.

Happy birthday, America!

The sun begins to make an appearance after hours of darkness, just in time for Eastern Washington Gateway's "Scoot" to trot West at 10-per with three venerable EMD's and 30 empty hoppers... (more)

Gliding along the banks of the beautiful Kootenay River, engineer J.S. Pinkston has his 115-car Beltrami, MN to Kalama, WA grain train easily under control.

For only the second time in the last 20 years, UP brought out their rotaries to fight the Sierra Cement over Donner Pass. The newly rebuilt rotary #207 enters the shed at Norden.

A tranquil scene at the blue hour is disrupted by a grain train swimming upstream and into another typical Hauser meltdown. I'd photograph this train at 16:46 and when I went to bed the next morni... (more)

CP's Kenmare Wayfreight battles the blizzard of 2016 near Carpio.

An Eastbound stack train glides along the Athabasca River at Swan Landing.

A shaggy golden retriever wears a look of despair, waiting for her owner to arrive and bring her in from the frigid cold, paying no attention to the pair of Montreal Locomotive Works veterans pass... (more)

The thunderous roar of two EMD 16-645E3's fills the cold Winter air as engineer RD Albrightson notches his two SD40-2's out to keep the 23 loads of charcoal, grain, oats and propane at the posted ... (more)