A quiet and foggy Saturday morning finds newly placed Great Northern caboose X-259 (built 1948) sitting on rails beside the city of Bemidji’s Great Northern Depot which was James J. Hill’s las... (more)
CTRR 36 pulls a long cut of cars out of the yard at the Sappi mill (out of sight behind the trees) thus providing a rare catch of the former UP MP15 with cars on the bridge over the St. Louis Rive... (more)
Shuffling cars around for the Sappi mill.
DMIR 404 coming off the siding at Coons along the CN Missabe sub as the trip to Proctor yard continues.
Revenue moving south down the CN Rainy sub.
Light snow falls as BLE 903 gets underway back to Proctor yard after loading and now leaving United Taconite with ore.
The two local jobs, one from Keenan yard doing work spotting boxcars for storage and then serving a blasting company, and the other from Two Harbors bringing interchange to Keenan yard cross paths... (more)
Ore from the Minorca mine moves south as the sun begins to rise over the trees.
One of the final moves of their day is moving a string of loaded logs cars from one area of the yard to another. Once spotted, they will head for the office and park their ride until the evening s... (more)
CTRR 36 switching cars around as the Sappi mill that they serve runs in the background.
Coming up the BNSF Lakes sub passing by the Sappi mill as they make their way to Hibbing Taconite to load pellets.
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.