Heading up the CN Minntac sub to load taconite pellets and passing a sleeping ballast cleaner along the way.
Barking along the CN Iron Range sub with taconite pellets in tow, a trio of Dash 8's greet the early morning sun.
Down from Minntac and now making the turn at Iron Jct. west wye for Two Harbors, MN
After loading pellets at Minntac, the crew was told to spike their train down here at Biwabik and wait for the van as a major weekday track project near Two Harbors on the Iron Range Sub prevents ... (more)
Catching the last sliver of sunlight, the late afternoon/early evening trip from Proctor Yard to Symington (Winnipeg) has an interesting power choice in the fact only ore pool engines are moving t... (more)
CN C40-8 2040 leads limestone loads North up the grade at Spirit Mountain.
Slogging along the CN Missabe Sub as darkness sets in and snow is falling.
CN C40-8 2004 leads a ore train South past a parked Dash 8 in Mountain Iron.
A cold refreshing image back when it was below zero and code blue on New Year's Day compared to the 90 degrees with a dew point at 72 degrees on this last day of spring in NE Minnesota.
A mixed freight from Proctor, MN to Canada with Dash 8 CN 2020 and a trio of tunnel motors in the form of BLE 903, DMIR 409 and DMIR 405 charge north through Fairlane along the CN Missabe sub late... (more)
A trio of Dash 8's navigate the S curve leading into N. Biwabik on a nice spring morning.
A trio of former CNW standard cabs lead 145 cars of taconite pellets south in the early morning hours on a late spring day.
The rising sun catches the tops of the plumes of steam billowing out of the trio of C40-8's leading 145 empties for Minntac on a -34F degree morning.
The weekly Providence & Worcester stone train, more commonly known as CHFP, which runs to Fresh Pond Yard in Queens, NY, makes its way westbound with 95 loads past West Haven Station on Metro-Nort... (more)
CN C40-8 2016 leads ore empties North through Fairbanks.
