Screaming through the woods of northern Minnesota with taconite pellets from Hibbing Taconite headed to their yard and dock at Allouez, Wisconsin.

Slowing to take the siding for a meet with a CN container train waiting for them, DMIR 409 and two Dash 8's supply the power for these taconite loads on the way down to Proctor.

A little snow mixed with rain is falling on a dark and gloomy Sunday afternoon with CN's privatization celebration paying homage to the Wisconsin Central, CN 3069 leading Q117 getting back underwa... (more)

DMIR 400 leads a loaded taconite ore train over the Whiteface River on its way to Protor and dock 6 in Duluth Minnesota for offloading.

A trio of SD40 variants leads a Southbound ore train towards Proctor and eventually the ore dock in Duluth.

Crossing atop a frozen Whiteface River that's currently living up to its name, loaded Minntac pellets cruise south down the former DMIR Missabe Sub at Kelsey beneath crystal clear blue skies. This... (more)

Ore loads cross the Whiteface River on a snowy afternoon in the Iron Range.

Always nice to see one leading since there are only three former DMIR 400-series tunnel motors currently working for CN in northeastern Minnesota.

Under angry skies, CN 5349 leads an empty limestone train out of Kelsey with a BLE SD40T-3 second out.

BLE 903 and company hustle south through Kelsey with ore loads out of United Taconite in Forbes.

DMIR 409, DMIR 404 and DMIR 402 pull loads of taconite pellets down the Missabe sub at Kelsey, MN. Elevation is rare at this location but thanks to a CN front end loader crew doing snow removal a... (more)

A pair of SD40-2W's and a C40-8 lead U714 as it crosses the Whiteface River in Kelsey, Minnesota with an empty train of Difco side dump cars in tow.

A C40-8 leads a local freight south on the Missabe Sub as it crosses over the frozen Whiteface River in Kelsey, Minnesota.

Loaded iron ore train CN U717 crosses over the Whiteface River in Kelsey, Minnesota behind a trio of EMD's.

A trio of EMD SD40 locomotives haul U717 through the Control point at South Kelsey. The ore train pounded south on the mainline while a northbound manifest freight held in the siding.