Under what is commonly referred to as "Code Blue" skies, CN 6013 works on getting up to track speed after holding for two northbound freights on the CN Missabe Sub. Southbound taconite ... (more)

CN 6013 leads 140 cars of taconite pellets southbound off Minnesota's Iron Range for the yard at Proctor, MN then down the hill to the ore dock at Duluth, MN and ultimately a steel mill once the s... (more)

A train with 140 cars of taconite pellets makes it's way down from U.S Steel's Minntac plant on a nice winters day headed to the yard at Proctor, MN and ultimately the docks at Duluth, MN. Minnta... (more)

Burlington Northern 6324 cab sits on the cold winter ground in Larrys Truck and Electric. 6324 started out life as a SD40 and was road number 6318 for Burlington Northern, and then later was rebui... (more)

Damaged in a derailment at Fairbanks, Minnesota in early 2014, CN 6013 was repaired and placed back into ore service. Here it leads a loaded ore train from Minntac past a switch crew that is nursi... (more)

A loaded ore train pulls into the Proctor Yard on a busy morning. Here the train passes the yard job doing switching on the lead to the left, and another ore train waiting for dock room on the rig... (more)

A Proctor Road Switcher brings loads down to the dock at Duluth for unloading. Here the train passes the newly reconfigured control point at Collinwood. The train will pull out of the dock and the... (more)

It is possible to see a train on the CN Iron Range Sub traveling back and forth from Two Harbors that doesn't have ore cars involved. The Miscellaneous Road Freight is one of them. Heading back ... (more)

A gloomy day as CN 6020 is in charge of the southbound empties after delivering limestone loads to Minntac.

A nice sampling of EMD power at the former DM&IR engine facility located northwest of Duluth.

Ore train bound for Proctor enters the lonely stretch of highway between MP 56 and the siding at Alborn, a distance of about 20 miles of nearly dead straight track.

Thankfully Culver's light held out at this U-Tac train thunders home to Proctor. Oddly enough, this was the second consist I saw today in this exact configuration. The light really shows how the r... (more)

This weekend CN completed the reconfiguration of the interlocking plant at Collingwood (West Duluth). Lost in the upgrade were switches that provided a crossover back when Proctor Hill was double ... (more)

CN 6020 holds the point on a Herzog unit ballast train tied down in the siding in the former DW&P yard at Virginia, MN

A trio of light units roll past the first ship of the season, the Cason J. Callaway (also owned by CN). The piles of ore are high and ice will likely hamper the start of this shipping season.