An empty ore train out of Two Harbors is about 78 miles into their trip north to the Minntac Plant near Mountain Iron, MN. These trains make the 168 mile round trip to and from Two Harbors many ti... (more)

CSX Waterville, Maine to Selkirk, New York manifest train M427 is seen heading down the Stony Brook Branch in North Chelmsford. The crew will drop the Ayer cut of cars in Graniteville before runni... (more)

A northbound CN freight rumbles and bumbles along up the CN Missabe sub passing through the control points of S. and N. Fairlane while heading to Canada as the northern lights dance in the sky abo... (more)

Three dash 8s take a loaded train south into Two Harbors.

A T-Bird has pulled up and called the CN RTC desk looking for lights to leave the plant and head back to the mine to reload. Seems to be lights all around.

MEC C40-8 7594 on Track 1 passing closed Ayer Tower. Will be heading back to the yard through the east leg of Hill Yard in Ayer. The yard switcher has dropped some empties for an outbound train.

Reduced to being a lowly yard switcher this GE is idling out front of the old Clinchfield HQ. Somewhere there's on the site there's a shot of the unit in stealth scheme.

Back in the day when the Santa Train was not so glamorous the consist threads it way southward through bare trees in murky weather. Only the train changes.

Southbound extra taconite train. They just light loaded regular hoppers.

A trio of retired NS C40-8s await their turn at the scrapper.

After departing the Minorca taconite plant and dropping down the southside of the Laurentian Divide, CN 2010 applies the throttle going across the yard at Virginia with 144 cars loaded up with ste... (more)

With the moon rising and the sun setting in Ramshaw, Minnesota, the last few minutes of golden light shines on a trio of C40-8's as they slow empty ore train U790 to cross the diamond with the Rai... (more)

The wind was whipping as this empty ore train ran across the open yard at Biwabik along the CN Iron Range sub.

Before it went to L & C to be a slug this unit sets outside the shops, recently arrived from UP.

A nice morning heading back down to Proctor from the Iron Range with the empty limestone cars.