Out of the deadlines, CN C40-8 2008 is once again earning its keep, heading west at Swan Landing with 134 empty lumber flats for Prince George in tow.

CN 2131 cuts through the heavy snow that's falling across northern Minnesota.

CN 2025 leads 145 DMIR ore jennies up main two heading for the Minorca mine to load while BNSF 4002 leads 130 BNSF ore cars up main one for the Minntac mine to load. The BNSF train will hold at th... (more)

Southbound CN 2041 splits the signals at Noimi Jct. on the Minntac sub with 116 cars of pellets and 29 empties trailing. "We emptied them of pellets on the west side".

A Burlington Northern empty coal train is just a few miles west of Lincoln, NE with an unusual leader.

A fog filled morning with the red CN nose as really the only color around on this southbound taconite train.

It's a beautiful fall morning in Duluth as this train waits for a new crew to then begin offloading taconite pellets at the docks in Duluth Minnesota.

Unseasonably cold weather and the first measurable snow of the season greet northeast Minnesota's Iron Range as this empty T-Bird makes their way up main 1 along CN's Missabe Sub from the plant ba... (more)

Snow is falling while CN 2029 makes it's way north across the now white landscape of the Iron Range sub as they head for U.S. Steel Minntac to load fresh baked taconite pellets.

Pan Am POAY (Portland, Maine to Ayer, Massachusetts) is seen crossing the Concord River in Lowell.

Southbound CN 2033 leads 145 cars of steaming taconite pellets through a valley between two old mine dumps full ablaze in fall color.

With the backdrop of an old mine dump showing the fading colors of the fall season , CN 2027 rolls though the yard at Biwabik heading towards Two Harbors, MN with 145 cars of taconite pellets.

The first snow of the season falls across northern Minnesota as a T-Bird train hauls 112 cars of taconite rock south towards the plant.