A rare sight to find DMIR 215 out of captivity. Usually, it never leaves Proctor yard anymore much less do it go north. IIRC these two were being used to pull cars from storage in the former LTV m... (more)

Early morning finds CN 5419 pulling through Virginia and track speed while a CN MOW crew has a job briefing and a Loram work train gets fired up for the day.

Typical Minnesota fall weather and scenery. Dreary, an ore train and colored leaves.

Coming into the yard at Biwabik to put some cars into storage on some unused tracks in the old yard once used for natural ore sorting and staging from area mines.

Through the S curve on the double track section of the CN Missabe sub on the way up to Minntac to load iron ore pellets.

Coming up from Two Harbors and closing in on the Ramshaw diamond.

A half hour out of Minntac and through the S-curve on the Missabe sub bound for Two Harbors yard.

MD&W, Minnesota Dakota and Western S-2 18,rest at the Boise Cascade Plant IN International Falls, Minnesota. April 11, 2000. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo 18, is ex-Toledo Terminal.

Heading for Two Harbors with iron ore loads in tow.

Having a little trackside snack of raspberries waiting for the train to arrive.

Just before sunset, BLE 900 gets lights out of United Taconite and starts the pull back to Proctor yard.

Canadian Pacific's business train fires along at track speed through Crow River, just outside of Belgrade, in a perfectly timed pocket of sun on an otherwise overcast spring morning.

CN #3310 leads an older C44-9 and a unit sand train through some heavy snow on CN's Missabe Sub. The lead locomotive is, at the time of the photo, a 1 month old AC44C6M rebuild from Wabtec in Fort... (more)

The Empress leads train 80B across the Mississippi River at Camden, MN en route to it's display at St Paul, MN.

Canadian Pacific #8801 leads an eastbound stack across the Milwaukee Road bridge over the Mississippi River at Hastings, MN.