An empty Thunderbird mine shuttle is seen heading back to the mine at Iron Junction. The shuttles operate on a four-hour cycle, bringing raw ore from the mine at Thunderbird in Virginia to the Uni... (more)

An empty taconite train is seen returning from Two Harbors on the Iron Range Subdivision. The train is crossing the former DW&P (now CN Rainey Sub) at the diamond in Ramshaw. The former CNW Dash 8... (more)

An empty taconite train is seen returning from Two Harbors on the Iron Range Subdivision. The train is about to cross the former DW&P (now CN Rainey Sub) at the diamond in Ramshaw. The former CNW ... (more)

A snowy trip for the entire 74 miles along the Iron Range Sub is coming to end as CN 2028 is about to cross Highway 7 turning north and getting on the CN Missabe Sub and then the CN Minntac Sub ar... (more)

One T-Bird is all loaded up and waiting to depart while the other T-Bird waits patiently for their to load at the crusher. Sitting in the background is North Shore Track Services GP9 115 (former M... (more)

Making their way north on the CN Missabe sub.

A pair of CSX Dash 8s rest at the East End of Conrail's Oak Island Yard. This power would have brought the loaded Tropicana Orange Juice Train east earlier in the morning. The units will layover... (more)

CN 2010 leads a loaded ID South through the snow at Fayal.

The pair of dash 8s look good in the winter light.

Matched Oranges. Genesee & Wyoming owned Providence and Worcester Railroad' tri-weekly train FPCH (Fresh Pond [Queens], NY-Cedar Hill [New Haven], CT) had a four-pack of GE C40-8s for power... (more)

A heavy spring snowfall is occurring as this empty limestone train heads back south to Proctor yard after dumping its contents at the U.S. Steel Minntac plant.

With what I have to believe is a first; The Corning Secondary hosts a MEC C40-8 in Pan Am Livery. NS H06 is departing Geneva after picking up interchange cut from the Finger Lakes Railroad.

Waited about six months to finally have leaves back on the trees and then during the peak of spring color the smoke from Canadian wildfires arrives and obscures the sun. Here's an early morning so... (more)

Cold and snow falling as an unusual 4 pack of the dash 8 variety pull the usual 145 ore cars of taconite round the bend near north Biwabik as they head south for Two Harbors yard.

After departing the Minorca mine, CN 2041 comes down the CN Rainy Sub pulling 145 ore cars of taconite pellets with the mine dumps of the U.S. Steel Minntac looming in the background.