Pusher power on a tailings train with a backdrop of fall colors in the hills of the Lake Superior Basin.
NSM's mid-day train is about half ways back on its journey to Babbitt for another load.
CSX 4003 on CSX L305 passes the Signals at Green Oak heading West bound.
BLE 903 leads a trio of rebuilt tunnel motors on a taconite train getting ready to depart the northwest end of CN's Proctor Yard and head down Proctor Hill to the Duluth ore dock. It took a bit of... (more)
DMIR 406 has pulled its empty ore cars off the CN ore dock located in the Duluth harbor. The train is awaiting clearance to proceed up Proctor Hill and return to Proctor Yard. Later a different cr... (more)
DMIR 406 pulls empty ore cars from the CN ore dock located in the Duluth harbor. The dock is the last operable one in Duluth. Under the dock is trackage used by CN, CP, BNSF and UP to access Dulut... (more)
Running down the CN Missabe sub with three IC units leading DMIR ore cars on a nice late fall afternoon.
A thunderstorm has just cleared and early evening light bathes Proctor yard as a loaded limestone train for Minntac departs north. There are still plenty of older EMD units assigned to Proctor.
While heading to Munger from Proctor, MN to catch a shot of a westbound CN manifest, I detoured onto Jeffrey Rd. to look for a shot. This is a blind crossing requiring care in checking for rail tr... (more)
The 74th annual CSX Santa train passes under the Roaring Fork Tipple in a misting rain.
Portland and Western's Oregon Electric Express trundles south towards it's destination of Albany, OR through the Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge.
Six units bring a manifest into CSX's Tilford Yard below the Atlanta skyline on a day that was nothing short of miserably hot.
SD40 variants power an empty autorack train north on its way back to Louisville,KY
A bit of wide angle lens play makes the 407 appear much larger than little brother SD38-2 212. Both are Missabe veterans, with 407 tracing its original birthright back to 1976 as SSW 9278 (SP) and... (more)
A pair of SD40-3's lead CSX local train A750 south on NS's Griffin District on trackage rights
