Ridiculous cold morning just as the sun begins to rise, hot taconite pellets create quite a steam cloud as the move south.
With lights out of the yard and onto the Missabe sub for the trip back to Proctor, three BLE motors start pulling.
Under the former DW&P Rainy sub (now the CN Rainy sub) at Munger with ore for Proctor.
Heading to Proctor with ore from United Taconite.
Blue hour arrival at Biwabik to wait for a northbound before heading off into the darkness towards Two Harbors and home.
A pair of Canadian National SD40-2Q's work the unloader at Two Harbors, Minnesota, pulling a cut of loaded ore cars through the shed. The unloaded taconite ore pellets are fed to a conveyor belt w... (more)
CN ES44AC 3960 and GP9RM 7020 lead A417's train past the coal load out at Pedley. A recently loaded coal train can be seen in the distance waiting for a crew to take it west.
Z111's train comes to a stop on the west lead of Jasper's north yard for a crew change.
Lately old age and muscular dystrophy are making it hard to get out there and catch trains, so I've pretty much given up on it. However a parked train (or in this case a Jordan Spreader) is very e... (more)
New CN AC44C6M 3340 cools its heels east of Jasper.
Prince George-Winnipeg train M348 departs the north track at Grant Brook, BC.
M348 pulls onto the North Connecting Track at Harvey heading towards the Robson Sub from the Tete Jaune Sub.
With CN 7054 being removed later that day and the power being CN 4139/4767 the day before, CN 500 is backing up with grain cars with a one day only lashup of CN 7054, CN 4912 & IC 9628.
Grain loads head west over the Mile 216 HBD on the Edson Sub.
Q199 departs Jasper with a rare UP SD70M trailing.
