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.

A clean CP ES44AC leads a westbound out of Pig's Eye Yard at "Hoffman" in St. Paul.

Photographer unknown. From my collection. A cooperative effort?. Put rounded ends on this unit and you'd have a Canadian RS-10 or RS-18 what with the Canadian trucks and dynamic brakes in the s... (more)

After a meet with an empty coke train that was heading south, IC 6260 pulls off the siding in the former DWP yard at Virginia to continue north for the Minorca mine with limestone loads.

DM&IR, Duluth Missabe and Ironrange SD40-3 417-SDM's 317-307, just about to the top of Spirit Mountain, Duluth, Minnesota. April 18, 1999. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

It was a hot and muggy evening to climb the nearly 400 feet to the top of the Mississippi River bluffs at Maple Springs, but the view and a few minutes of serenity made it worthwhile. An SD70ACe i... (more)

Amtrak's westbound Borealis pulls into Red Wing just a few minutes late on a humid July evening.

Canadian Pacific train 148 rips through Belgrade, Minnesota, at track speed behind four bright red GE's.