After meeting an empty pellet train, DMIR 403 once again throttles up and begins to move crossing over from main one to main two on the CN Missabe Sub. before taking the left turn onto the CN Iron... (more)

A BNSF all-rail taconite train coming in with 123 cars and 15,004 tons at 6,734 ft. in length pulls through an almost empty CN Keenan yard. This crew will tie the train down and van back to Proct... (more)

A BNSF all-rail taconite train ply's the rails on the CN Missabe Sub heading to CN's Keenan yard from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant with 123 loaded cars.

Classic searchlight signals and classic Missabe maroon as DMIR 403 rolls south through Iron Jct. with it's train in tow.

As the full moon rises, the classic search light signals at Iron Jct. are still illuminated protecting the CN Missabe Subdivision's Main 1 and 2 and the east leg of the wye to the CN Iron Range Su... (more)

Dashing through the snow.

The snow has subsided but now the cold wind is blowing in from Canada and the temperature is dropping quickly giving the photographing of a U-730 with a relatively clean, matched pair of anniversa... (more)

IC 6251 runs up the Missabe Sub from Proctor to Minntac and kicks up some of the freshly fallen snow, dusting a CN M-343 working on setting out cars for Keenan Yard.

As the snow is tapering off, a pair of Dash 8's kick up a little of that freshly fallen white stuff while they head back to the mine to reload.

The fog is thick on this unseasonably warm mid-December afternoon and CN 2111 cuts through it like it was butter while heading north with empties for United Taconites Thunderbird Mine crusher to l... (more)

Factory fresh Loram RGS Specialty Grinder RGS 8 works on the Missabe Sub at Iron Jct. grinding rail for CN.

A quad set of power brings empties from Two Harbors banging across the Ramshaw diamond as they head north to load taconite pellets at the Minorca mine before returning back to Two Harbors.

IC 6261 leads a northbound empty through the gloom and fog of a typical November day in Minnesota. The train is destined for the U.S. Steel Minntac plant for loading.

Trio of C44-9W's pull a 344/772 combo over the DM&IR diamond at Ramshaw. The 772 train (sand empties) would be peeled off at Superior, WI

Empties bound for Minorca hammer across the DW&P