A plethora of power, a gaggle, a grouping, a variety, a consortium of all things CN staged outside the Proctor diesel house on a cold and windy late fall morning all idling away until the next cal... (more)

Taconite pellets made at U.S. Steel's Keewatin Taconite plant head south on the Casco Sub passing under the former DMIR Alborn branch bridge at Alborn, MN.

A normal procedure at Haapamäki has been finished as the class Dv12 diesel hydraulic locomotive number 2609 has brought empty timber wagons on the loading tracks of the Haapamäki yard. The locom... (more)

A southbound freight on the CN Rainy Sub knocks down the signal at Ramshaw as they glide over the CN Iron Range Sub.

With the crew inside having beans, MD&W 22 idles outside the main shop and offices building in International Falls, MN waiting to go to work.

A bright October day has brought some unique gatherings in the small station of Kovjoki where Haapamäki museum locomotive society's Dm7s has brought some passanger to Nykarleby jernväg, where th... (more)

North Shore Track Services GP9 115 is parked until needed at Laurentian Aggregates at Largo just outside United Taconite operations near Eveleth, MN. This GP9 is used to switch out stone cars her... (more)

Just tied down at Markham F yard, UP 6423 waits its next crew. It seems that Tagging has grown beyond rolling stock and has migrated to the Locomotive roster as well. The 6423 sports some additio... (more)

Johnson Rail Service repowered Alco S2 slumbers between switching duties in the morning sunlight at OmniSource Kernersville.

A Hectorrail Siemens Vectron preparing to depart with a Gothenburg bound Flixtrain low cost service. The German low cost carrier Flixtrain expanded briefly to Sweden offering low cost trains betwe... (more)

Ex-MP/UP 1365 is now one of the many refurbished switchers to come out of this famous shop tucked in the corner of Rice Junction. With it includes ex-GATX Waycross LOSX 8, ex-LC/FCEN 94 and ex-St... (more)

With a down day at United Taconite, the usual T-Bird power and crew was used to retrieve 7 sand cars from storage on the former Erie Mining, LTV Mining now Cliffs Erie property. Before the other c... (more)

With a down day at United Taconite, the usual T-Bird power and crew was used to retrieve 7 sand cars from storage on the former Erie Mining, LTV Mining now Cliffs Erie property and are seen headin... (more)

The engineer is oiling around the 425 down by the water tank in the old Blue Mountain & Reading's South Hamburg Yard. Pennsy E8A No. 5898, classified as an EP-22* by PRR, was built by EMD in 1951... (more)

Dv16 2038 posing under the aurora borealis after finishing a few switching moves on the museum's trackage. A thick fog is starting to settle in over the yard, soon hiding the nature's own lightsho... (more)