A trio of standard cab C40-8s lead empty CN ore train U79082 into the siding between Gilbert and Biwabik Minnesota to meet a loaded ore train bound for Two Harbors.

CN 2040 charges north up the CN Iron Range sub on a dreary afternoon to load taconite pellets.

CN 2006 sports remnants of a spring snowfall on its nose as they head back for Two Harbors, MN on a cloudy dreary afternoon.

Empties north from Two Harbors, MN to U.S. Steel Minntac and then back to Two Harbors, MN. Load, dump, repeat.

Running back to Two Harbors with some hot commodity.

On a dark and foggy evening there are no trains coming because the signals say so.

A loaded pellet train from U.S. Steel Minntac heads towards Two Harbors on the CN Iron Range Sub passing through some old mine dumps on Thanksgiving morning.

Under warm evening sun an empty taconite trains heads back to the Minorca Taconite plant for another load. BLE 909, DMIR 406, CN 6013 and DMIR 408.

With a bitter cold end to 2017, a empty taconite train passes through Gilbert, MN as it head toward Mintac for another fresh load of pellets.

An empty CN ore train in Gilbert, MN on the CN Iron Range Sub.

DMIR 403 pulling ore empties north from Two Harbors back to a mine for reloading. Shortly after this shot over two years ago she suffered a cracked block but was repaired and departed the MEI sho... (more)

First the collar goes up, then the leaves that pass then comes the snow. CN 2020 runs north through some falling snow for a date with U.S. Steel Minntac's east pocket to load approximately 15,000 ... (more)

The Keenan Switch crew spotted 4 loads at a local blasting company and now returns with four empties back to it's namesake yard.

Heading back from Two Harbors with empties to be reloaded at the mine on the very tail end of the fall color season in NE Minnesota.

Chasing the setting sun along the CN Iron Range Sub a trio of GE's with 145 ore cars trailing continue towards U.S. Steel's Minntac plant to load out more taconite pellets.