After leaving Proctor yard in the early morning hours and doing some work at Keenan yard, DMIR 409 arrives at the yard at Virginia just in time for a nicely timed rolling meet with its southbound ... (more)

After leaving Ranier in the early morning hours, CN 5448 gets to Virginia and takes the siding for a rolling meet.

CN 2007 arriving on U.S. Steel Minntac property to load 145 ore cars with iron ore pellets.

It was neat to see DMIR 400 and 404 leading an iron ore train down the Iron Range Sub.

Moments after sunrise and it was as cold as it looks.

Low winter light bathes this iron ore train as they head for home at Proctor yard.

Fresh out of Minntac with freshly made iron ore pellets bound for Proctor tard.

Dumped out at the plant and returning to the mine to reload, CN 2112 gets going north on the CN Missabe Sub at Fairlane.

After finishing up their work at the Minntac plant, the Keenan Switch job takes the rarely used switch at Noimi Jct. to head north to Virginia to pick up some cars in the former DWP yard before re... (more)

Iron ore pellets southbound from the Iron Range to Proctor yard.

A rare sight to find DMIR 215 out of captivity. Usually, it never leaves Proctor yard anymore much less do it go north. IIRC these two were being used to pull cars from storage in the former LTV m... (more)

Early morning finds CN 5419 pulling through Virginia and track speed while a CN MOW crew has a job briefing and a Loram work train gets fired up for the day.

Typical Minnesota fall weather and scenery. Dreary, an ore train and colored leaves.

Coming into the yard at Biwabik to put some cars into storage on some unused tracks in the old yard once used for natural ore sorting and staging from area mines.

Through the S curve on the double track section of the CN Missabe sub on the way up to Minntac to load iron ore pellets.