Quietly moving along the CN Iron Range Sub for loading at the U.S. Steel Minntac plant which is still a little under an hour way yet. These new ore cars and the rebuilt GE's are much quieter, alm... (more)

Summer is past. The leaves are down. And the Dash 8's on the Iron Range of NE Minnesota have come to the end of their era as well.

Empties navigate the S-curve around a former natural ore mine pit at Sparta, MN on the CN Iron Range Sub.

Rounding the bend and shrouded in fog along the CN Iron Range sub.

Racing up to Minntac to load taconite pellets and passing by m.p. 1 on the namesake sub with 6 miles to go until the plant and the east loadout pocket.

This was the last set of Dash 8s roaming the Iron Range sub out of Two Harbors, MN in the CN ore pool. That pool has now dried up and the Dash 8s are no more.

CN 3334 leads the way onto the siding at Biwabik, MN to meet loads that are waiting to head south on the main after they clear the switch at S. Biwabik. This train, that loads at Minntac's east lo... (more)

The 1x1 setup on U790 has CN 3327 as the DP unit shoving 145 ore cars along the Minntac sub as they head up to the mine to load taconite pellets. A bad order setout sits on the siding after appare... (more)

The last triple set of Dash 8s working out of the CN ore pool move across the CN Iron Range sub on a nice fall afternoon.

Well, this is the last set of Dash 8s working out of the CN Two Harbors ore pool. CN 2027, 2031 and CN 2032 will have the honor for a few more days anyway as they are slated to be "retired&qu... (more)

Heading through the early morning fog on the CN Missabe sub. at Wolf, MN.

Three of the remaining six Dash 8s still working for CN hauling iron ore make their way north on the Iron Range Sub through the fall foliage as they go up to Minntac to load.

CN 2004 rounds the bend through the yard at Biwabik and is about to take the N. Biwabik signal as the EOT device follows along on the tail end of U790 as the northern lights do their thing in the ... (more)

Coming up from Two Harbors and closing in on the Ramshaw diamond.

Coming off the Iron Range sub and passing through the west leg of the wye at Iron Jct. and making the turn to get on the CN Missabe sub headed to the Minntac plant.