A Keenan switch crew is about to shove 100 taconite loads into CN Keenan yard and once tied down, they will tie onto another 88-car string and return back to Minntac and then return back here to K... (more)

A GP38-2 GTW duo paired up and assigned to CN Keenan yard, the R901 job shoves back into the yard after a run to service a customer.

A nice but cold spring day finds CN 3000 coming down from the U.S Steel Minntac plant with 100 taconite loads heading for the CN Keenan yard. Once there this crew will tie onto another 88 cars and... (more)

There is no rumbling to be heard as DMIR 406 crosses over the stout former Duluth Missabe and Northern (DM&N) concrete bridge. This bridge gets plenty of tonnage in a day as this is the CN Iron R... (more)

The Keenan local heads through the yard at Biwabik, MN and passes by the still standing DMIR roundhouse on their way to doing some switching at a local blasting company.

Quite rare to see a matched pair of GTW GP38-2's working a job in 2022. Pictured working the Keenan switch job at Keenan.

Looking at three big CN motors and a 100-car string of hoppers filled with taconite pellets slowing to a stop to drop the conductor off at the switch so he can then protect the shove into Keenan y... (more)

CN 3000 brings 100 hoppers of taconite pellets down from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant on the almost last day of winter. The crew will yard this first cut at CN Keenan yard, tie onto another 88-ca... (more)

After switching out loads for empties at the Dyno Nobel plant, R901 is almost back to home to Keenan yard with their short train having just passed a long stack train that's parked with air issues... (more)

After switching out loads for empties at the Dyno Nobel plant, R901 is traveling east and approaching Nugget where they will wye their train and head back west to Keenan yard.

The Keenan local heads back to its namesake yard on a nice and sunny Christmas Eve afternoon.

Sticking out like a sore thumb on a snow day R901, the Keenan local, brings over some cars for switching at the Viking explosives plant on the Keenan sub. Snow in switches and other delays would ... (more)

Working out of CN's Keenan yard, this R901 job is currently featuring two GTW units as power while they work on an early Christmas Eve morning almost to their destination of Dyno Nobel Americas (D... (more)

Working out of Keenan yard, this R901 job is currently featuring two GTW units as power and it almost looks like they are pulling a string of ore cars out of United Taconites Fairlane plant. Fact... (more)

A couple of trains ready to depart CN's Keenan yard with one, the L568, having to wait for other, R901, to get out first.