CN 2131 makes it's way through DWP Jct. then up to Shelton Jct. onto the CN Rainy sub before taking a right turn at T-Bird Jct. up to Largo before backing under United Taconite's coarse crusher to... (more)

Two Bessemer tunnel motors lead the MRF by the searchlights at Fayal.

Built in 1961, dismantled in 2019. Bridge no. 9482 was built to carry millions of tons of natural iron ore from mine pits near Eveleth, MN and included Fayal 1, 2 and 3, Cloquet Annex, Pearsall, ... (more)

After climbing up and over the Laurentian Divide (seen on the horizon) a string of new oil cans led by a relatively new ET44AC continue traveling south down the CN Rainy sub.

Almost 2 miles of colorful containers stretching back from Shelton Jct. thru DWP Jct. to Mtn. Iron Jct. on the CN Missabe Sub this northbound is about to turn onto the CN Rainy Sub for the run up ... (more)

The U792 for Minorca comes through DWP Jct. and will make the left turn at Shelton Jct. for the short trip up the Rainy sub (somewhat visible below the train) to Minorca Jct. and then the mine pro... (more)

A little color is left in northern Minnesota as things change. The leaves are hanging on despite the recent snow and the BLE orange is hanging on despite the addition of C40-8's and AC power ente... (more)

CN SD70M-2 8914 leads a loaded crude oil train south on the Rainy Sub.

Winnipeg-Memphis train M342 heads south on CN's Rainy Subdivision.

After departing the Minorca mine north of Virginia, MN, 145 loads of taconite pellets are still steaming in the cold Minnesota winter air as they travel along towards the dock at Two Harbors, MN.

Two workers give NPR 1761 a good workout running it back and forth along this section of track prior to it being moved off site, having been replaced by another GP9, MRL 115 which will now take ov... (more)

A pair of GP9's that used to be the former Montana Rail Link #115 (now lettered NSHX #115) and former UP #224 (now lettered NPR 1761) sitting quietly at a rock crushing operation on United Taconit... (more)

A T-Bird leaving the United Taconite coarse crusher load-out for the plant passes by a new neighbor, former Montana Rail Link EMD GP9 #115 which was delivered recently here to Minnesota's Iron Ran... (more)

Former Montana Rail Link EMD GP9 #115 was picked up in Livingston, MT by BNSF and delivered to CN who then delivered it here to Minnesota's Iron Range where it was re-lettered to NSHX (North Shore... (more)

A dozen newly refurbished ballast cars that were re-done at the Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad Repair facility sit on a spur track waiting to get that new paint scratched during the first load... (more)