The red signal indicates that there is nothing coming north from Two Harbors for a while, but all eyes were on the sky on this night.

Splitting the hills made from former mining activity, CN 2041 is coming north from Two Harbors amid peak fall colors.

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)

The first snow of the season falls as an empty pellet ID heads north through Sparta heading to load at U.S. Steel Minntac.

Under threatening skies, CN 2025 cuts between hills of fall color as they roll towards home at Two Harbors, MN.

Friday the 13th finds R901 rolling through the fall colors as they head towards Biwabik with boxcars for storage.

Dodging clouds with rain and breaks of sun mixed in, a trio of BLEs haul limestone loads north on the CN Missabe Sub for the Minorca mine.

IC 6260 hangs out at the yard in Two Harbors waiting for its next assignment which is most likely a MRF (miscellaneous road freight) trip over to Keenan yard later on.

Love the smell of steaming pellets and EMDs in the morning.

Green over red on the signal and red over green in the sky as a southbound CN freight hums along the Rainy sub about to cross over the Ramshaw diamond.

A northbound CN freight rumbles and bumbles along up the CN Missabe sub passing through the control points of S. and N. Fairlane while heading to Canada as the northern lights dance in the sky abo... (more)

A T-Bird has pulled up and called the CN RTC desk looking for lights to leave the plant and head back to the mine to reload. Seems to be lights all around.

Hauling taconite pellets down from United Taconite on Minnesota's Iron Range to Proctor yard with three IC's.

After dumping limestone at Minntac, a trio of BLE's come down from the plant with their train in tow.

Taconite pellets bound for Two Harbors make their way along the Missabe sub and will very shortly make the left turn onto the Iron Range sub for the remainder of the seventy-four-mile trip into to... (more)