The Keenan local rounds the bend on the running track with a cut of boxcars the crew will tie down and leave here in storage.

Northbound empties getting the roll-by from the southbound loads as they pass through Biwabik, MN.

The local job that runs from Two Harbors to CN's Keenan yard today has three SD9043MACs in tow that were on lease to Northshore Mining's RR while they waited for their SD70ACes to arrive to be use... (more)

Taconite loads rolling south for the yard at Two Harbors, MN

After a mechanical failure to the third member of the typical Dash 8 trio power set used out of Two Harbors, the decision was made to use veteran DMIR 409 to lead a pellet id up to Minntac. She st... (more)

Dodging and ducking the clouds and hitting the sucker hole at the right time.

A loaded taconite train from the Minntac plant gets a roll-by from the crew of the Keenan local job at Biwabik. The taconite pellets are headed to Two Harbors while the local will do their work a... (more)

Loaded taconite pellet train U789 is headed for Two Harbors on the Iron Range Subdivision. The train is passing through Biwabik and the remains of the DMIR yard and engine facilities that were onc... (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.

As a early April snowstorm pounds the iron range, DMIR 400 leads the Two Harbors MRF South through Biwabik.

Just before the sun rises on a cold April morning, CN 2031 is scurrying along the CN Iron Range Sub and passing through the yard at Biwabik, MN heading towards home at Two Harbors.

Coming south down the CN Iron Range sub and through the yard at Biwabik with taconite pellets from the Minorca mine led by two former Missabe SD40-3s and a trio of former CNW Dash 8s with 145 cars... (more)

The wind was whipping as this empty ore train ran across the open yard at Biwabik along the CN Iron Range sub.

The Keenan switch job bringing back a healthy cut of sand cars from out of storage on the former Erie Mining Co. property.

It's Christmas Eve and throughout the land not a creature was stirring except for the crew on this U789 hauling Minntac made taconite pellets bound for Two Harbors. It was -10 degrees with a nw w... (more)