A northbound train from Proctor heads up the CN Missabe sub bound for the United Taconite plant to load the trailing ore cars with marbles on National Train Day Eve.

CN 2306 and CN 2621 pull an empty string of oil cans north through the former DWP yard at Virginia, MN and they continue the trip to Canada on National Train Day Eve.

CN 2107 crossing over the St. Louis River.

The familiar face of DMIR 409 heads up a rail train at Fairbanks, MN on the CN Iron Range sub and will drop rail heading back north after the clearing of a northbound empty and a southbound loads ... (more)

A nice but cold spring day finds CN 3000 coming down from the U.S Steel Minntac plant with 100 taconite loads heading for the CN Keenan yard. Once there this crew will tie onto another 88 cars and... (more)

On a typical spring day with dark skies, cold winds and mixed precipitation, CN 2033 slows while coming into the curve at Biwabik on the running track to wait for a northbound that will keep on mo... (more)

Pulling freight through the snow crossing over the St. Louis River on the CN Rainy sub.

BLE duo pulling 114 cars of taconite rock from the mine heading towards the plant entering the N. Fairlane switch off the CN Missabe sub and onto plant property shortly.

BLE duo pulling 114 cars of taconite rock from the mine heading towards the plant about 10 miles away on a cold spring morning.

The almost fluorescent green of the new season's leaves really contrasts the dark storm clouds at 2000 hrs. as CN 2000 rolls 145 cars of steaming taconite pellets between the old mine dumps locate... (more)

There is no rumbling to be heard as DMIR 406 crosses over the stout former Duluth Missabe and Northern (DM&N) concrete bridge. This bridge gets plenty of tonnage in a day as this is the CN Iron R... (more)

BLE 906 leads the L567 (Proctor to Ranier) freight north on the Missabe sub with a planned stop at Keenan yard shortly to drop off the trailing unit and do some work before continuing onward.

A nice spring snow falls on BLE 909 as they head off the Minntac sub shortly and will then run down the Missabe sub back to Proctor with these empty limestone cars.

A nice spring evening deserves a flashback to the winter of 2021 and a cold February afternoon with a temperature of minus 20 and cold NW wind blowing. KSC 5000 leads the still steaming taconite ... (more)

U.S. Steel Minntac made taconite pellets head to Proctor, MN behind DMIR 409. Just imagine how good her maroon paint would look in this low winter afternoon light.