CN's recent acquisitions meet at Iron

The MRF heads back towards Keenan with 4 propane empties and a buffer

CN 6013 + IC 6261 team up to bring empty limestone cars towards Duluth passing Iron Jct/Iron Range Sub

Loaded ore train for Two Harbours, MN

CN 6017, CN 6018, IC 6254 provide the power with Mountain Iron - Two Harbors taconite loads

4615 leads an empty lime stone train south towards Proctor and Duluth.

A southbound CN Q-119 has to pause and wait on the busy CN Rainy Sub. for a CN/DM&IR empty ore train that's bound for the U.S. Steel Minntac taconite plant to clear off the CN Iron Range Sub. whic... (more)

BLE 909 takes Minntac loads back to Two Harbors.

An overkill of power takes Minntac loads through West Wye headed for Two Harbors. Trees were flocked very nicely.

Southbound T-bird heads for Fairlane.

Loaded crude ore train rolls south for the Fairlane processing plant on a pleasant spring day.

The Keenan Switch returns to its namesake with empty bentonite hoppers from Minntac.

A northbound core train passes by the Keenan Switch.

Dust flies as two T-Bird raw iron ore trains pass at speed between the mine and processing plant. CN uses pairs of former C&NW GEs in this service, one of the few assignments on the former DM&IR t... (more)

IC 6252 leads the empties off the CN Iron Range Sub at Iron Jct. in the last light of the day. They will load the train at the west load-out at U.S. Steel Minntac and head back to Two Harbors und... (more)