A CN stack train races north through the yard on the main as a Loram rail grinding train ties down for the night.

Using the 9,000 H.P. to it's fullest, I.C. 6253 pulls 120 ore cars off the former DWP mainline and up the grade into the Minorca taconite plant to load pellets that will in turn head to Two Harbor... (more)

A small break in the clouds allowed a shot of a true M.O.W. beast--the ballast cleaner. Tied down at the former DWP Yard in Virginia it awaits it's next job

With the Laurentian Divide now behind them, it's all downhill for the crew of this CN freight train as they rumble southward.

DM&IR 403 smokes up the skies as they climb the grade into the Minorca Mine to drop off 40 loads of limestone.

A BCOL unit makes a rare stop in Virginia, MN at the former DWP Yard and is tied onto a Herzog ballast train.

A 'J' unit waits its next assignment at CN's Virginia yard.

Probably as far north as they have ever been. Two EJ&E units are spotted in the former DWP Yard at Virginia, MN. The 662 is the Virginia Switch that came up from CN's Pokegama Yard in Superior, ... (more)

A Canadian National stack train blasts thru the former DWP Yard at Virginia while the recently assigned to northern Minnesota EJ&E 660 watches from track two with a ballast train.

After a brief thunderstorm passes and the sun returns for a perfect evening, the EJ&E 660 sits tied to a Herzog unit train of ballast hoppers at the former DWP yard in Virginia, MN

EJ&E 660 prepares to lead a ballast train northward out of the former DWP yard at Virginia and past a track crew installing new grade crossings. The EJ&E 660 has been recently assigned to norther... (more)

EJ&E 660 leads a ballast train northward out of the former DWP yard at Virginia and past a track crew installing new grade crossings. The EJ&E 660 has been recently assigned to northern Minnesota... (more)

Illinois Central 6255 leads two DM&IR units and 130 loads of iron ore past milepost 74 on the CN Rainy Sub heading for Two Harbors, MN.

09:30 T-Bird departs the mine with 88 loads and two idler cars.

Two T-Birds meet at Largo.