After leaving Ranier, MN and a brief stop at CN's Keenan yard, L568 is underway southbound leaving the fog behind as they travel down to CN's Proctor yard. Side note: The DMIR ore cars on the hea... (more)

Heading back to Proctor yard with taconite pellets made at United Taconite.

CN 3008 leads train 594 through Sussex, New Brunswick at sunset.

CN train 594 crests the hill at Quispamsis, New Brunswick, with some fall left on the trees.

On a dreary foggy morning, train 120 approaches Amherst, Nova Scotia.

CN 5349 leads two other EMDs and an empty taconite train North over the Iron Range Sub.

Well, that was a nice surprise as a matched pair of SD75Is lead a grain train south on the CN Rainy Sub through some peak fall colors.

Probably the last fall season these three Dash 8s will see as the purge of the former ex UP/CNW from CN's roster has begun. Here's a trio of them departing Minntac with taconite pellets bound for... (more)

Northbound container train cutting thru the fog as they head north for the Canadian border crossing at Ranier, MN.

CN 500 is temporarily stopped over a level crossing as a crewmember opens the gate at Ardent Mills (seen at left). Soon the train will shove grain loads into the mill.

DMIR 402 leads an empty taconite train through Aurora, MN.

A four pack of Canadian National SDs bomb South down the Two Harbors Sub.

CN 4727 & CN 4134 are wearing two generations of paint schemes as they lead CN 500 into the Port of Montreal.

CN 451 departs Huntsville after doing some switching in the yard. This year's fall colors were less than spectacular, some starting early, some late, some lasting for a couple of weeks (mostly jus... (more)

CN 451 rolls through the "S"curves a couple of miles south of Huntsville, along the south shore of Lake Vernon as the last of the fall colors cling desperately to a clump of birches beside the tra... (more)