Splitting the hills made from former mining activity, CN 2041 is coming north from Two Harbors amid peak fall colors.
CN 2040 comes at track speed down the main past a whole lot of boxcars in storage here at Biwabik. In its heyday, this yard would have been full of ore cars and switch jobs when the natural ore m... (more)
Cutting through the morning fog as the Dash 8s and 145 ore cars travel north on the CN Iron Range Sub.
CN 2000 splits the signals at Fairbanks, Minnesota on its way to the ore dock at Two Harbors with a load of hot, steaming Taconite pellets. The pellets originated as raw ore at the Minntac Mine be... (more)
The peak of colored leaves has come and is now gone across NE Minnesota. On this day near the peak, CN 2040 called RTC to depart Minntac only to come down and around the corner in full sun and th... (more)
Just a few minutes before sunset, CSX L053 makes way across the Fore River Inlet bridge in Portland, Maine as it approaches its termination point of Rigby Yard. A pair of former CSX C40-8's, now b... (more)
The first snow of the season falls as an empty pellet ID heads north through Sparta heading to load at U.S. Steel Minntac.
Probably the last fall season these three Dash 8s will see as the purge of the former ex UP/CNW from CN's roster has begun. Here's a trio of them departing Minntac with taconite pellets bound for... (more)
A C40-8 and SD60I lead Conrail TV-202 south on the controlled siding at Teaneck. It's 4pm and the sun is barely breaking through the trees as it sets on a frigid February afternoon. At the time ... (more)
Waterbury Tower. BERX PL-1 is headed back to Plainville, Connecticut with 18 loaded cares. In the background, the Waterbury, Connecticut clock tower, a copy of the famous Siena, Italy tower... (more)
CN 2033 leads a Northbound ID past the abandoned Thunderbird South mine area.
Fall is in full swing as M316 breezes thru Hitchcock Tunnel descending 17 mile grade on a cool fall day.
CN C40-8 2007 leads ore empties North under a rainbow as they approach the signal at Jones.
Spring is in the air this April afternoon as UP 9062 rolls westbound with a trio of Dash 8s. Including former C&NW units such as the 9062 seen here, UP had some 333 standard cab Dash 8s.
Under threatening skies, CN 2025 cuts between hills of fall color as they roll towards home at Two Harbors, MN.