Loaded crude ore train rolls south for the Fairlane processing plant on a pleasant spring day.

The Keenan Switch returns to its namesake with empty bentonite hoppers from Minntac.

A northbound core train passes by the Keenan Switch.

Dust flies as two T-Bird raw iron ore trains pass at speed between the mine and processing plant. CN uses pairs of former C&NW GEs in this service, one of the few assignments on the former DM&IR t... (more)

IC 6252 leads the empties off the CN Iron Range Sub at Iron Jct. in the last light of the day. They will load the train at the west load-out at U.S. Steel Minntac and head back to Two Harbors und... (more)

After coming up from Two Harbors and delivering cars and power to Keenan yard, the MRF (misc. road freight) heads back towards Two Harbors with five units and three loads. The loads will go to Nor... (more)

No reflection shots will be had today. A stealthy and healthy Q-116 quietly rolls along the still snow covered landscape of northern Minnesota as the white stuff continues to fall.

DM&IR 403 leads 145 loads of pellets from the Minorca mine back to Two Harbors just before crossing the Ramshaw diamond during the last light of the day.

The crew on board will probably need that broom for the switches when they arrive at the U.S. Steel Minntac taconite plant's commercial yard with 16 hoppers of bentonite clay and begin swapping lo... (more)

Heavy snow continues to fall as a CN land barge peeks it's nose out from the trees as it continues it's trek southbound on the Rainy Sub. near the Ramshaw diamond where they pound cross the CN Iro... (more)

A single unit up front and a DPU unit on the rear with fairly close to two miles of containers in the middle as Q-116 rolls southbound down the CN Rainy Sub on a clear late winter's morning

Just about to pull onto the Missabe Sub, this empty tac train led by everyones favorite engine winds its way around the last leg of the Iron Range Sub.

Another CN manifest follows the signals as it cuts through the darkness of a Minnesota night rolling northbound on the Missabe Sub after a fresh snowfall.

A freight led by WC 6006 sits at the Keenan Road crossing waiting for a new crew to arrive who will then take this train further south along the CN system. The WC 6006 is a former Algoma Central ... (more)

Under a light snowfall the Kelly Lake local makes their way down the CN Keenan Sub, using the established trackage rights they have here, to deliver these bentonite clay filled hoppers to the Mino... (more)