A cold morning makes for some thick fog at daybreak.

The first official below freezing temperature reading of the fall season brings some heavy early morning fog to Minnesota's Iron Range as a train bound for Minntac to load Blast Furnace Trim (BFT)... (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.

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)

The sun has risen further into the sky warming the air to only -20 degrees now. Much better than the -30 degrees at daybreak only a few hours ago. The DM&IR 400 leads loads of fresh baked (at ro... (more)

As the DM&IR name is faded out and into the history books by CN, a Wisconsin Central lock shows up on the former Missabe Road to protect the signal box at Ramshaw where the DW&P Rainy Sub crossed ... (more)

It's Easter Sunday and the colors of CN stand out against the early spring landscape of northern Minnesota as 135 loads of taconite pellets roll southbound down the Iron Range Subdivision for Two ... (more)

Illinois Central 6251 makes it's way across the Iron Range as the sun makes it's way over the horizon. This train will head to U.S. Steel Minntac for loading the 135 trailing cars with taconite p... (more)

MRF bound for Keenan rattles across the new diamond, in which the Missabe's Iron Range Sub crosses the DWP's Rainy Sub.

More snow for northern Minnesota! An empty BFT (Blast Furnace Trim) train with the very old DM&IR regular side ore cars rolls north on the Iron Range Sub about to cross the Ramshaw Diamond with t... (more)

The MRF returns from Two Harbors with five cars of product from switching out the Louisiana Pacific board plant on the outskirts of town. They will head into Keenan Yard to pick up more cars befo... (more)

It's a good day when you can bag the last Missabe tunnel motor in maroon leading, with sun and steaming pellets trailing. Today was that day. B&LE 900 and DM&IR 407 are along to help out in pull... (more)

A trio of SD40's pull hard on the loads of taconite pellets as they begin the trip south on the CN Iron Range Subdivision bound for Two Harbors. I.C 6251, DM&IR 405 and I.C. 6252 with the honors ... (more)

A west loader bound for Minntac is coming through Ramshaw on a great spring day that has barely a cloud in the sky. The nice day would soon end for this crew though when after arriving at Minntac... (more)