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)

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.

Cutting through the morning fog as the Dash 8s and 145 ore cars travel north on the CN Iron Range Sub.

Heading back to Proctor on a late fall afternoon after delivering limestone loads to the Minorca mine earlier in the day.

The peak of colored leaves has come and is now gone across NE Minnesota. On this day near the peak, CN 2040 called RTC to depart Minntac only to come down and around the corner in full sun and th... (more)

The first snow of the season falls as an empty pellet ID heads north through Sparta heading to load at U.S. Steel Minntac.

With the purge of the former UP/CNW Dash 8s from the ore pool on CN's roster beginning it was fitting that the GEs would take over where the Dash 8s did when they first arrived ala the T-Bird job.... (more)

The Keenan local job brings in some more boxcars for storage here at Biwabik. Along with the boxcars they also have some tank cars on the tail end of their train which they spot at a local blasti... (more)