DMIR 403 south with it's 145 loaded ore cars of steaming taconite pellets in tow meets IC 6261 north with it's 145 empty ore cars going to get loaded in tow at Iron Jct. on the CN Missabe sub. Bo... (more)

Winnipeg Symington, MB - Battle Creek, MI 348 hammers across one of the highest tonnage diamonds on the CN system. CN 2283 + CN 5452 have a good sized 10000ft train in tow with 68 mixed/56 racks.

DMIR 405, CN 6021, IC 6251, BLE 903 have a 145 car Two Harbors, MN - Mountain Iron, MN tac empty in check approaching the Ramshaw diamond.

An empty Two Harbors - Minorca rock train approaches the Iron triangle eventually heading onto the Missabe Sub.

My final day shooting in Minnesota before my move to Montana... could not have envisioned a better ending. The sun sets on the DMIR 403 with nary a CN motor to be seen, as it sets of my time in M... (more)

The first significant snow event of the season is well underway here on Minnesota's Iron Range. U.S. Steel's Minntac plant is still churning out the taconite pellets and the CN crews are still hau... (more)

After yesterdays heavy snows across the area have subsided, United Taconite was able to restart their mining operations and the CN served mine was able to load a train of 119 cars with taconite ro... (more)

Mountain Iron, MN - Two Harbors, MN tac loads head through Fayal

The Keenan Local/Hinsdale Turn returns to Keenan with an empty clay hopper and four empty nitrate tanks.

Although the code line was classic, there have been some advantages to them being removed, this shot being one of them. A nice sandwich of who bough who descends the Minntac Sub onto the Missabe S... (more)

An unexpected surprise came as these two C40-8M's powered a rail train dumping all along Iron Jct. and the Iron Range Sub. Pity the power wasn't turned...

After coming up from Duluth, MN on the CN Missabe Sub with it's train of Lexington Group participants, DMIR 403 heads out of CN Keenan Yard and makes its way back to Duluth with a gaggle of foam c... (more)

A quartet of Canadian National EMD's lead 145-loads of ore toward Two Harbors, Minn., from Mountain Iron, on a late summer afternoon passing from the Missabe Sub to the iron Range Sub at Iron Jct.

After almost a yearlong shutdown due to soft demand in the iron ore markets, United Taconite has been restarted and so too have the T-Bird trains which shuttle the taconite rock from the mine to t... (more)

The birds fly again! After a more than year long hiatus, trains are once again loading raw ore at the Thunderbird Mine and bringing it to the United Taconite plant. CN #2131 is pretty clean and lo... (more)