Heading over the Ramshaw diamond, DMIR 402 and DMIR 404 have 181 cars behind them and are about to tie up traffic for a while as they come of the CN Iron Range Sub and cross Highway 7.

Loaded taconite train bound for Proctor behind three death stars hits the wide open stretch through the bog.

Loaded all rail train of taconite pellets bound for Convent, LA leaves northern Minnesota behind.

Mostly dumped Difco side dumps return south from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant back to Proctor. CN and Minntac use these old DM&IR lettered Difco's to deliver limestone to plant in the cold winter ... (more)

Zipping through the S curve at Culver with taconite pellets following along.

A rolling steam bank down the Missabe sub behind BLE 900, CN 5338 and IC 6253 and pulling DMIR/Missabe ore cars loaded up at the United Taconite facility. The exhaust plume is from said facility ... (more)

An all-rail loaded at United Taconite races down the CN Missabe sub in the low afternoon light of the late fall season. This train has a final destination of Convent, LA.

A nice afternoon along the Missabe.

The R901 job out of Keenan usually has about 5 or 6 cars when they come back and usually come back much earlier in the day but today they have 181 cars total and 7500 feet behind them with 174 san... (more)

Along with their normal task of switching the Dyno Nobel facility outside Biwabik, today's R901 Keenan job also had the project of retrieving 174 sand empties from storage on the former Erie Minin... (more)

The last slivers of light illuminate the R901 with it's 732 total axels that are coming off the CN Iron Range Sub and heading south on the CN Missabe Sub at Iron Jct. with sand empties from storag... (more)

Three IC's lead taconite loads about to pass under the Highway 33 bridge at Saginaw as they head to Proctor.

IC 6252 leads taconite loads under the former DW&P main at Munger as they head to Proctor yard.

After the triple set of BLE orange units came the triple set of DMIR 40's and now here's the latest installment of cool things on the former Missabe, the IC 40's in triplicate. IC 6252 leads pell... (more)

It's always nice to be able to pull over and just listen as these old veterans approach at track speed doing what they are supposed to do and that's earn revenue for the CN mothership.