CN's L568 comes down the siding at the former DWP yard after meeting their northbound counterpart which is taking the signal on the other end of the yard to continue heading to Ranier, MN. DMIR 40... (more)

Hitting the throttle as they hit the single-track section of the Missabe sub heading south with taconite pellets for the yard at Proctor. In the background on the double track portion comes a bla... (more)

The KCS Gulfport Local job at Hattiesburg and chased them back south. The job had cool set of 4-SD40's. Here the job hammers on the binders as they slow for the permanent 10 mph slow order at Wigg... (more)

Unfortunately for us the one pellet trains we chased alot wasn't in the best condition. The 405 is shows some signs of age as she leads this U-Tac train back to Proctor on the Missabe. The Missabe... (more)

An U-Tac load is heading back to Proctor with 140 loads of pellets out of Fairlane bound for the Duluth Docks. The train is southbound on the CN Missabe Sub.

An empty ore train bound for Fairland works north on the CN Missabe Sub as they pass under the CN Rainy Sub at Munger in the late evening light. The CN uses the Missabe Sub mainly for northbounds ... (more)

It took some chutzpah to go with a white locomotive paint scheme, or was it Murphy's law. Hey, it was interesting. Photo by Dave Petke, from my collection.

A Northbound manifest (Oak Island, NJ to Selkirk, NY) blasts by the Haverstraw station.

A trio of Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western EMD's lead a grain train through the frozen swamps outside of McKenzie, North Dakota on a frigid March morning. The train is coming off of the DMVW's Na... (more)

Early on a frosty January morning, this southbound loaded ore train heads over the scale lead into Proctor Yard.

It's shaping up to be a nice day across NE Minnesota as IC 6254, CN 6024 and IC 6252 come around from the Minntac plant with loads of taconite pellets for Proctor yard and ultimately the CN dock d... (more)

The roar of EMD prime movers and the echo of the horn fills the valley as a Buffalo & Pittsburgh coal extra cruises north past the old BR&P AD Tower at Ashford, New York after a late season snow f... (more)

Before departing back to the mine to reload, DMIR 400 has to wait for a pellet loader out of Proctor to clear first.

Hauling a train of dry ice or hot taconite pellets. Doesn't matter, can't see it anyway.

With Minntac partially visible in the distance, IC 6252 makes its way down the Minntac sub with a destination back to the yard at Proctor, MN.