On a snowy afternoon across northern Minnesota, CN 2111 leads the way south with rock from the mine heading to the plant keeping the money moving for Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. CN has recently pulled ... (more)

With less than ideal conditions to perform the work in, the Keenan Switch job now heads back to their namesake yard after switching the commercial yard at the U.S. Steel Minntac plant.

Pounding along the Missabe Sub in the snow pulling ore cars.

On the return trip back to the home base of Kelly Lake, BNSF 2957 dims the ditch lights to meet a northbound CN freight on the double track section of the CN Missabe sub.

CN 3035 is rumbling north up the Missabe sub knocking down the signal at Wolf along main two taking a right turn for them heading towards Shelton Jct. and the Rainy sub bound for Canada. This sig... (more)

Rounding the bend and coming up on the outside it's CN 2119 passing CN 2180 near M.P. 65.3 on the CN Missabe sub under less than ideal weather conditions. CN 2119 was light power heading to their... (more)

A pair of CN Dash 8's lead a raw ore shuttle at Wolf, Minnesota between the T Bird Mine and the Fairlane Taconite Processing Plant. As the train approaches Wolf Junction, it crosses through the mi... (more)

A "mega train" two car ore train splits the signals coming off the CN Minntac sub about to head down the CN Missabe sub.

After traffic has cleared on the both the Missabe sub and the Minntac sub it's now green signals for BNSF 4002 to pull 130 ore cars up to U.S. Steel Minntac to load.

CN 2025 leads 145 DMIR ore jennies up main two heading for the Minorca mine to load while BNSF 4002 leads 130 BNSF ore cars up main one for the Minntac mine to load. The BNSF train will hold at th... (more)

Pushing on the rear of a 130 taconite train bound for the U.S. Steel Minntac plant was this still looking good somewhat rare Executive MAC. Disclaimer: because it was in DP the ditch lights were ... (more)

Southbound CN 2041 splits the signals at Noimi Jct. on the Minntac sub with 116 cars of pellets and 29 empties trailing. "We emptied them of pellets on the west side".

A Friday the 13th 2020 CN ore train. Because nothing is normal this year.

DMIR 404, DMIR 408 and IC 6252 pull 114 cars of taconite rock south down the Missabe sub at Wolf headed for the United Taconite plant to make into taconite pellets.

Giving a good old fashioned roll-by in a snowstorm. The crew of the Keenan switch job watches and listens for anything unusual while giving a roll-by to a loaded taconite train heading south on t... (more)