After loading pellets at Minntac, the crew was told to spike their train down here at Biwabik and wait for the van as a major weekday track project near Two Harbors on the Iron Range Sub prevents ... (more)

Catching the last sliver of sunlight, the late afternoon/early evening trip from Proctor Yard to Symington (Winnipeg) has an interesting power choice in the fact only ore pool engines are moving t... (more)

CN C40-8 2040 leads limestone loads North up the grade at Spirit Mountain.

Slogging along the CN Missabe Sub as darkness sets in and snow is falling.

CN C40-8 2004 leads a ore train South past a parked Dash 8 in Mountain Iron.

A cold refreshing image back when it was below zero and code blue on New Year's Day compared to the 90 degrees with a dew point at 72 degrees on this last day of spring in NE Minnesota.

A mixed freight from Proctor, MN to Canada with Dash 8 CN 2020 and a trio of tunnel motors in the form of BLE 903, DMIR 409 and DMIR 405 charge north through Fairlane along the CN Missabe sub late... (more)

A trio of Dash 8's navigate the S curve leading into N. Biwabik on a nice spring morning.

A trio of former CNW standard cabs lead 145 cars of taconite pellets south in the early morning hours on a late spring day.

The rising sun catches the tops of the plumes of steam billowing out of the trio of C40-8's leading 145 empties for Minntac on a -34F degree morning.

The weekly Providence & Worcester stone train, more commonly known as CHFP, which runs to Fresh Pond Yard in Queens, NY, makes its way westbound with 95 loads past West Haven Station on Metro-Nort... (more)

CN C40-8 2016 leads ore empties North through Fairbanks.

Heading back from Dodge City, this Cimarron Valley train passes some field sprinklers with its freshly painted D8 leading and a B40 still in CSX colors.

A loaded train of crushed raw taconite (blast furnace trim) makes its way across the Whiteface River in Kelsey, MN with a nice mix of power.

Loaded limestone makes its way into Fairlane behind a pair of CN C40-8's and an SD40-2W. In Chicagoland, CN is sending these old CNW Dash 8's to scrap at an alarming rate, but a good number of the... (more)