A unit sand train led by CN 2180 pushes up the CN Missabe sub during a heavy snow event on the day before Christmas Eve 2020 or sometimes the day referred to as Festivus made popular by a 1997 Sei... (more)

No getting up at before the sun, no standing in lines, no coupons, no traffic (except for trains), no crowds, no masks. Black Friday CN style with IC 6251, one of the original heritage units, lea... (more)

A trio of former DMIR units pull these 114 DMIR cars down the Missabe sub passing this deer stand along the way.

Running up the CN Missabe sub from Proctor, MN in rain/snow/wind and just general gloom is CN 5430 and crew with a upcoming stop at CN Keenan yard to drop off some engines and cars and pick up som... (more)

Running down the CN Missabe sub with three IC units leading DMIR ore cars on a nice late fall afternoon.

Taking a turn off the Missabe sub at N. Fairlane, DMIR 402, DMIR 404 and DMIR 408 lead taconite bearing rock loads into the United Taconite property where the plant will make taconite pellets.

DMIR 408, DMIR 404 and DMIR 402 pull 114 cars of taconite rock south down the Missabe sub for the United Taconite to make into taconite pellets.

DMIR 406 leads an empty limestone train southbound through Forbes Minnesota on a beautiful fall day out on the Iron Range of Minnesota.

DMIR 406 leads an empty limestone train southbound through Forbes Minnesota on a beautiful fall day out on the Iron Range of Minnesota.

I see some IC at United taconite as IC 6264 pulls 140 loads of taconite pellets out of the yard and head down the CN Missabe sub while IC 6252 in charge of empties to head back to the mine to load... (more)

Limestone loads from Proctor head up the CN Missabe for USS Minntac led by BNSF 9247 which is being used paying horsepower back to CN.

BNSF locomotives working on CN for horsepower payback handle an ore train at United Taconite while the plant's contract switcher moves a car.

CN is temporarily receiving a number of Union Pacific and BNSF locomotives for horsepower payback and two of those BNSF units have found their way to northern Minnesota to be used for the T-Bird s... (more)

CN has assigned a number of horsepower payback BNSF and UP AC units to northeastern Minnesota on the former DM&IR. Here two BNSF units power a crude (unprocessed) ore train dumping at the Fairlane... (more)

After waiting for a pellet train to depart and now having favorable signals themselves, IC 6252 with 118 X 2 departs the Fairlane plant and heads back to the mine at Thunderbird north to load more... (more)