Empty potash train CN B731 has five GEs up front and a sixth on the tail end as it heads west.

Just before sunset, another CN train crosses the Rainy River between Ranier, Minnesota, and Fort Frances, Ontario as it leaves the U.S. and enters Canada.

CN 3847 is almost into Canada passing the bevy of security features at speeds of less than ten miles per hour on the single-track lift bridge, built in 1908, which crosses the Rainy River between ... (more)

CN 3233, Salute to Veterans, rounds the corner after just entering the U.S. at Ranier, MN on a frost covering everything morning while a northbound waits for a crew before crossing and heading int... (more)

A trio of Dash 8s pulling 145 cars of still steaming pellets bound for Two Harbors. Another 30 seconds and this shot would have been blocked by a northbound all-rail taconite train that was headin... (more)

A classic EMD trio and Missabe ore cars carrying taconite pellets south to Proctor yard.

Late afternoon Westbound box cars, over the Escanaba River in Escanaba Michigan with CN 5410 in the lead. This train leads out of Gladstone Michigan daily

CN 3008, the Illinois Central heritage unit, leads CN M336 through the Spaulding Junction diamonds in Bartlett, IL. The unit had previously led CN A447 to Green Bay the day prior; power on that tr... (more)

CN 5349 leads U716 north at Burnett.

CN 369 has a Dash9-44CWL trailing as it rounds a curve in Beaconsfield with boxcars up front.

As DMIR 400 rattles over the Missabe era steel bridge over the still frozen Whiteface River, it's hard to tell this is the end of February with NE Minnesota's above average temps and below average... (more)

After waiting for a northbound container train to pass, DMIR 400 now has signals to head south out of the yard at United Taconite and begins the trip back to Proctor yard down the CN Missabe sub.

Just beating out the long shadows towards the end of the afternoon, an all EMD power set leads an empty limestone train down from the Minntac taconite plant and heads for Proctor.

Still a somewhat shiny new leader running down the CN Rainy Sub crossing the Ramshaw diamond as they head south.

More marbles from the Minntac taconite plant bound for Two Harbors.