CN 2007 arriving on U.S. Steel Minntac property to load 145 ore cars with iron ore pellets.

One of the final circus train rounds the big fill at Cook Springs, Al

A standard cab C40-8 and some KCS power brings NS #347 in Atlanta

The usual trio of standard cab Dash 8's are dispersing a lot of heat from their dynamic brakes as they hold back a loaded taconite train on their descent into Two Harbors, MN.

Dumped out at the plant and returning to the mine to reload, CN 2112 gets going north on the CN Missabe Sub at Fairlane.

Typical Minnesota fall weather and scenery. Dreary, an ore train and colored leaves.

Through the S curve on the double track section of the CN Missabe sub on the way up to Minntac to load iron ore pellets.

Coming up from Two Harbors and closing in on the Ramshaw diamond.

A half hour out of Minntac and through the S-curve on the Missabe sub bound for Two Harbors yard.

Heading for Two Harbors with iron ore loads in tow.

Providence and Worcester FPCH trundles over Astoria with empty stone cars bound for Connecticut. The train runs from Fresh Pond Yard in Queens to Cedar Hill Yard in Connecticut bringing back empty... (more)

The show must go on as two iron ore trains meet at Biwabik while the aurora borealis light up the night sky.

A small thunderstorm cools things off and gets the mosquitoes moving while CN 2007 keeps the iron ore pellets moving heading down the CN Iron Range sub just past the Ramshaw diamond.

A trio of Dash 8s and 145 ore cars loaded with still steaming iron ore pellets quietly glide along the CN Iron Range sub at m.p. 65 heading for Two Harbors, MN on another Canadian wildfire smoke c... (more)

Navigating the S-curve, CN 2007 north is making the turn on what was the former DM&N, then DM&IR and now the CN Iron Range Sub passing by the grade of the former D&IR which was abandoned in 1972.