After delivering limestone to the Minorca mine, IC 6255 is now heading home to Proctor on a nice fall afternoon.

CN 2918 comes south with a mixed freight near the peak of colored leaves season across NE Minnesota. Previously CN 2918 spent some time near here having been assigned to the ore pool moving taconi... (more)

The red signal indicates that there is nothing coming north from Two Harbors for a while, but all eyes were on the sky on this night.

After executing the perfect meet at the former DWP yard at Virginia with it's counterpart L567, DMIR 405 is rolling along towards their next stop for work at Keenan yard before going on to Proctor... (more)

Coming down the Casco Sub at mp 85 with loads of pellets, the other player in moving taconite in NE Minnesota is the BNSF which handles production from U.S. Steel's Keetac plant and Hibbing Taconi... (more)

The Lincoln to Northtown manifest passes by some colorful trees on its way east, brightening up this gloomy fall morning.

Colorful consists on CP are fairly norm now when DPU isn't involved since the CPKC deal happening, today all the power is on the head end in "conventional setup". The new crossovers in Dunn short... (more)

Coming off the CN Missabe Sub at Iron Jct., CN 2025 turns east for the southbound trip down the yard at Two Harbors with taconite pellets.

A pop of CN red amongst a forest of yellows.

Heading back to the mine for more taconite pellets.

Splitting the hills made from former mining activity, CN 2041 is coming north from Two Harbors amid peak fall colors.

Heading for Proctor yard with taconite pellets on a nice fall afternoon.

With the first meet on their trip south complete, BLE 903 gets rolling towards track speed again coming off the siding at Kelsey.

CN 2040 comes at track speed down the main past a whole lot of boxcars in storage here at Biwabik. In its heyday, this yard would have been full of ore cars and switch jobs when the natural ore m... (more)

After finishing their work at Keenan yard, CN 5419 begins to pull south for Proctor as L567 comes to a stop in the fog preparing to do its work at Keenan.