About to come off the Iron Range sub, CN 2020 takes the signal at east wye and will continue the trip up to Minntac to load taconite pellets.
The calm and quiet of nature is disrupted for a few moments by 598 axels of a CN ore train then it's back to calm and quiet again.
After a brief pause to allow the passing of a southbound container train on the Rainy Sub at the Ramshaw diamond, it's back on the move again along the Iron Range sub for this U790 going to load t... (more)
A little red sticks out amongst a sea of yellow as CN 2028 rounds the bend.
Navigating the S-curve CN 2006 north is taking the turn on what was the former DM&N, then DM&IR and now the CN Iron Range Sub passing by the grade of the former D&IR which was abandoned in 1972.
With a bitter cold end to 2017, a empty taconite train passes through Gilbert, MN as it head toward Mintac for another fresh load of pellets.
Heading back from Two Harbors with empties to be reloaded at the mine on the very tail end of the fall color season in NE Minnesota.
The split second CN 2014 north knocks down the signal at Noimi Jct. as the run to U.S. Steel Minntac continues.
A few minutes after sunrise on a cold autumn morning and BLE 903 is thundering north from Two Harbors with 145 ore cars following kicking up some of the fresh snow that blankets the landscape as t... (more)
