Signals to depart the yard and head down to Proctor with taconite pellets out of the United Taconite plant.

A Keenan switch crew is about to shove 100 taconite loads into CN Keenan yard and once tied down, they will tie onto another 88-car string and return back to Minntac and then return back here to K... (more)

Heading back to Proctor with limestone empties.

IC SD40-3 6251 leads ore loads South near Forbes.

A mixed freight from Proctor, MN to Canada with Dash 8 CN 2020 and a trio of tunnel motors in the form of BLE 903, DMIR 409 and DMIR 405 charge north through Fairlane along the CN Missabe sub late... (more)

Loaded limestone makes its way into Fairlane behind a pair of CN C40-8's and an SD40-2W. In Chicagoland, CN is sending these old CNW Dash 8's to scrap at an alarming rate, but a good number of the... (more)

Heading into the United Taconite Fairlane plant with rock from the mine as the sun sets on National Train Day Eve.

CN 2107 crossing over the St. Louis River.

Pulling freight through the snow crossing over the St. Louis River on the CN Rainy sub.

BLE duo pulling 114 cars of taconite rock from the mine heading towards the plant entering the N. Fairlane switch off the CN Missabe sub and onto plant property shortly.

IC 6253 passing over the fast-flowing St. Louis River as they head back north up the Missabe sub back to the mine to reload after unloading at the United Taconite plant.

A damp and dreary spring afternoon as CN 2040 departs the United Taconite plant with pellets bound for Proctor and ultimately the CN dock 6 at Duluth, MN where they'll be loaded on a boat and head... (more)

A little fog in the air yet as BLE 906 is passing over the spring melt and rain swollen St. Louis River on the way to the United Taconite plant.

Darkness settles in on this Easter Sunday as heavy snow is falling across northeastern Minnesota and breaking the quiet mood is CN 3271 rumbling up the Missabe sub bound for Canada and points else... (more)

Spring will come, they say. Warmer temperatures will come, they say. Snow falls and it feels like January instead of mid-April as CN pulls a mixed freight north on the CN Missabe sub heading for ... (more)