The Canadian National Keenan Local R901 rolls south through Iron Junction, Minnesota behind a pair of former Grand Trunk GP38-2's as it returns to Keenan Yard from Mountain Iron.

CN 2946 heads north with an ore train at Iron Junction, MN. I am not certain, but this appears to be a raw taconite train. Note the loaded jenny behind the locos. I suspect this is used as a buffe... (more)

DMIR 409 leads ore loads South through Iron Junction.

A trio of C40-8's lead a loaded ore train towards Two Harbors.

A pair of GEVO's lead a southbound limestone train to Fairlane.

DMIR 405 leads a T-bird South near Iron Junction.

BNSF 2571 leads the weekly local (with no cars) South past the searchlight near Iron Junction on the Keenan Sub.

CN 2339 leads a stack train southbound as it crosses over the Iron Range Sub at Ramshaw on a beautiful afternoon.

A four pack of IC EMDs lead train U78981 through Iron Junction. The train is taking the connection toward Two Harbors, and is passing by a series of code poles and a set of endangered searchlight ... (more)

A duo of repainted IC geeps lead the Keenan local north through Iron Junction.

Repainted IC SD40-3 6256 leads a T-bird south through Iron Junction.

Rarely seen in these parts, CN GP38-2W 4791 runs south down the CN Iron Range Sub for Two Harbors with CN's TEST cars in tow.

A few more feet into the yard and the CN crew will park their train and be done for the day after spending most of shift loading and weighing 130 cars of taconite pellets at the USS Minntac plant.... (more)

Ore loads are headed to Proctor. In the consist are 2 SD9's in original paint.

T-Bird shuttle U73083 14 rolls south with its loaded jennies beneath Highway 37 near Iron Junction on the ex-DM&IR Missabe Subdivision amid the snow covered Minnesota woodlands. These trains work ... (more)