Three ex-C&NW GEs pull a loaded ore train past Highland Lake en route to the docks at Two Harbors.

CN 2119 takes limestone towards Duluth.

One of the endless ore trains being unloaded onto a ship at the Duluth ore docks.

UP 9160 leads an eastbound freight thru the Feather River Canyon in May of 1994.

CN 2029 runs south along the CN Iron Range sub with 145 cars of steaming pellets on the drawbar racing and pacing some fast moving clouds in the process.

Loaded and empty ore trains meet at Biwabik, each with a trio of CN C40-8s.

A trio of dash 8's and 145 ore cars of taconite pellets begin the trip down the CN Iron Range sub for Two Harbors, MN. coming off the CN Missabe sub at Iron Jct. west wye.

Some early morning fog still hanging around as 15,500 tons of steaming taconite pellets descend the hill from the U.S. Steel taconite plant on this cool forty degree Labor Day.

A nice quiet summer evening finds northbound CN 2031 throttling up at N. Biwabik after sitting and on the siding waiting for southbound loads to pass. After the dust, diesel exhaust, wheels squea... (more)

CN 2004 chugs along and pellets steam as they are passing through the valley between two old tree covered mine dumps near m.p. 65 along the CN Iron Range sub. traveling towards Two Harbors, MN.

CN 2028 rounds the curve at Biwabik on the way north. Using your best horse racing call/voice makes it more interesting.

A GE leads two EMD's as they bring one of the many daily loaded ore trains towards Proctor on the CN Missabe sub.

Running up the CN Rainy sub through the yard a Virginia, MN a trio of dash 8's and 145 ore cars glide along and in a few miles will reach the Minorca mine loadout chute.

Powered by a trio of GE C40-8 locomotives, an eastbound Union Pacific freight curves over the famous Keddie Wye Bridge in California’s Feather River Canyon on February 26, 1989.

Summer In Sumner. On the very warm early morning of Tuesday, August 10, 2021, the Rock Island pair of 2127 (C40-8) and 4310 (GP38) sit in the town square of Sumner, Mississippi at sunrise n... (more)