A cold and early morning departure from Minntac with an empty limestone train back to Proctor, MN.

An empty T-Bird shuttle in the process of going between the plant and the mine to reload passing through Iron Jct.

Mixed freight coming down from Canada.

Finished loading at the U.S. Steel Minntac plant at Mountain Iron, MN, UP 8155 led all-rail U724 with still steaming taconite pellets will snake its way south to a destination at Convent, LA some ... (more)

Coming off the CN Missabe sub and onto the CN Minntac sub at Wolf pulling 54 carloads of limestone for the U.S. Steel Minntac plant.

Coming into Virginia, MN the heavy snow falling almost obscures the steaming taconite pellets from the Minorca mine as they begin the trip south for an end trip destination at Two Harbors, MN.

No matter the weather, well to be honest ridiculous cold really hampers train movements but anything else CN says supply chain disruptions be damned while snow falls as this Q119 container train g... (more)

The MRF (Miscellaneous Road Freight) rolls north to Keenan with interchange traffic including a Northshore Mining locomotive going back for warranty work while a CN snowfighter heads south to get ... (more)

A loaded taconite train from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant makes the very rare left turn at Noimi Jct. to begin the trip north to the Canadian border then across Canada to Prine Rupert for export t... (more)

A nice quartet leading an empty limestone train back to Proctor on a sunny afternoon.

One of the first snowfalls of the season starts to cover the landscape as this empty limestone train coming from U.S. Steel's Minntac plant starts back down the CN Missabe sub for Proctor, MN.

Running up main 2 on the CN Missabe returning to the mine for reloading.

Let there be light! New lights have been added recently to this scene as plans are continuing to take shape for a park to be built around the Bruce Mine headframe near Chisholm, MN. CN donated a q... (more)

Always more interesting switching cars in heavy fog so the Keenan car man helps out.

Emerging from the fog.