Racing around the corner at Biwabik, MN heading for Two Harbors with fresh made taconite pellets.

Racing clouds that seemingly came out of no where, a fresh BLE #900 slows for a meet at Jones.

A quartet of tunnels chugs past the searchlights protecting the south switch at Biwabik with an empty string of jennies bound for Minntac.

A loaded ore train out of the Minntac Mine at Mount Iron, MN, has a good roll on them as they pass thru Biwabik enroute back to Two harbors. The train has almost 16,000 tons of iron ore pellets bo... (more)

DMIR 409, DMIR 403, BLE 904, and DMIR 408 hustle 145 cars of iron ore pellets south to Two Harbors shown passing through the CN Biwabik yard on a nice but cool spring morning.

DMIR 403 leading taconite loads from Minntac bound for Two Harbors in snow but more importantly in 2015.

The crew from the Keenan Switch Job dismounts and gives a roll by to IC 6250 leading a U-789 taconite train south through the yard on a fog filled day. Obstructed by the fog and steam is a northb... (more)

Black, white and CN all over as a northbound empty taconite train takes the siding at S. Biwabik to meet a counterpart southbound loaded taconite train that will arrive shortly. CN 6024 (SD40-2u)... (more)

Empties for Minntac pound through Biwabik on an absolutely gorgeous fall day. In the background a train for BFT for Two Harbors sits.

While CN 2104 and CN 5244 idle away while waiting for an assignment, a southbound pellet train rolls through on it's way from U.S. Steel, Minntac to Two Harbors.

Idling away on a Saturday night in the CN Biwabik yard. Local law enforcement was approaching and in turn providing a little background lighting. After some questioning it seems there wasn't a ... (more)

Idling away on a Saturday night in the CN Biwabik yard.

A train of loaded taconite pellets passes the former DMIR roundhouse at Biwabik on its way to Proctor. At the time of this photo the DMIR had been owned by Canadian National for only a few months.

Little pieces of the Missabe Road are still to be found albeit they are getting harder and harder to find. Here is an old Adlake lantern used on a short spur to an industry long gone that was onc... (more)

They look good anywhere, don't they? A large horse of a different color hangs out deep in CN territory holding the air on a 195 car empty ore train. The train is an "E-Rail" running be... (more)