A cold early morning departure has some steam coming off the new pellets as they descend down the hill from the Minntac taconite plant.
CN 543 at left (with CN 322's train) and CN 527 at right meet just west of the Turcot Interchange on a frosty afternoon. At left are parked grain cars.
CN SD40-2W's 5270 + 5320 sandwich DMIR SD40-3 403 with CN's Thunder Bay yard power. The grain season has just started in the port city with CPKC & CN bringing the first grain trains in of the seas... (more)
Running slightly later than usual, autorack train CN 271 passes MP 22 of CN's Kingston Sub.
SD70M-2s 8869 and 8938 lead a westbound intermodal towards Roberts Bank.
A Winter seen on the former BCR, the only scheduled fright left on the Squamish sub heads northbound up the Howe Sound
CN EMD SD40-3 6264 leads limestone loads north at Munger.
A trio of C40-8's lead a steaming train of taconite loads on the U789 as it rounds the bend coming in to Biwabik, Minnesota and heads towards Two Harbors. This location was once the junction of an... (more)
CN 2954 leads a westbound coal train through the Thompson River canyon.
U717 comes around the S curve at Culver, MN with DMIR 406 in the lead.
Coming up from Proctor to load at United Taconite before returning back to Proctor and all the while not seeing much but the fog covered landscape.
Moving along under the cover of fog.
The crew has finished loading 145 ore cars up at Minntac has called for signals to depart and head back towards Two Harbors. RTC has given them the lights to proceed.
Thick snow is falling as CN 324 heads east with CN 8901, CN 2220 and 38 cars.
IC 2717 Has Q102 In Tow As They Duck Under Hwy 11.