CN C40-8 2107 leads a crude ore train off of the Missabe Sub and into the processing plant at Fairlane.

A pair of Dash 8's rattle the steel bridge over the St. Louis river as they rumble northward with empties.

The Misc. Road Freight has just departed Keenan Yard with a healthy cut of cars and a few engines needing some attention. Those engines will be serviced at Proctor and will hopefully be returned t... (more)

A T-Bird train with a pair of former CNW/UP Dash 8's for power cross over the St. Louis river on a nice spring morning on the second day of the Minnesota fishing season.

Two Dash-8's with the special paint scheme celebrating 15 years of privitization team up to work a T-Bird train on the former Missabe.

DMIR 307,201 swing off the main into the pellet plant at North Fairlane.

DM&IR 222,861,204 have delivered a cut of limestone to Keenan yard and then have grabbed a string of empties and are heading to the Fairlane Tac. Plant to load and after that will be heading for P... (more)

Matching DMIR tunnel motors in CN colors roll off of the Missabe Sub and into the plant with another load of raw ore.

Newcomers to the Missabe jogging around the wye past some old Missabe signals. Missed the shot by 1/2 a second!

Newcomers to the Missabe head off to take a nice jog around the wye. I counted 10 Dash 8's on the Missabe today, 4 of them being at Fairlane.

After making up the train, the commercial freight side of the former Missabe known as the MRF (Miscellaneous Road Freight) has just left Keenan Yard bound for Proctor yard with the days deliveries... (more)

A friendly wave from the crew as a trio of SD40-3's lead loads of taconite rock over the steel bridge crossing the frozen St. Louis river on a cold early spring day in northern Minnesota.

The B&LE orange really looks like it's glowing against a cold blue sky at a time of day when the sun is just about below the horizon.

An empty limestone train heads south on the double track just north of Fairlane.

CN 2123, part of CN's purchase of 35 ex-UP (C&NW) C40-8s, looks fresh and clean against the white snow as they make the final approach to United Taconite with a mixed train of three different sty... (more)