Loads and empties meet at Biwabik with an exchange of pleasantries between crews.

CN 5483 rolls south and will be coming to a stop shortly at the Keenan Road crossing for a crew change while a CN freight rolls north along the double track portion of the CN Missabe Sub.

CN 2040 underway as darkness is upon them.

The fresh white falling snow can't make CN 3061 and all it's filth and road grime look any cleaner as it travels north with their monster train of containers heading for Canada.

Heavy snow is falling as CN 2040 makes it's way north having just crossed over the Ramshaw diamond in route to the Minorca Taconite plant for loading.

Heavy snow is falling as the 1500 T-Bird pulls up to the signal at the United Taconite coarse crusher loadout.

With the return of the cold weather, CN has resumed using the Difco side dump cars for limestone service to the U.S. Steel Minntac plant. Here a mixed bag of power comes off the Minntac Sub and d... (more)

The crew running as the Keenan Switch job on this day must have grabbed some "best available" power at Keenan yard to use to bring these bentonite cars up and switch out the commercial y... (more)

Steaming taconite pellets blend into the fog that's rolling across the yard as IC 6254 begins to pull out of United Taconite and head down the Missabe sub for Proctor, MN.

It really didn't seem to matter that rain was falling, the wind was howling and the temperature was 45 degrees. DMIR 215 and DMIR 403 were paired up at Proctor, MN doing work in 2021. It was a goo... (more)

DSS&A RS-1 No. 101 compliments the fall colors as they cross over the Sucker River heading up to the siding at Palmers in a few hundred yards before running around the train and heading back towar... (more)

Under darkening skies, IC 6252 has just departed United Taconite and is underway hauling pellets towards CN's Proctor yard on the CN Missabe sub.

BLE 906 leads the MRF (Misc. Road Freight) local up from Two Harbors, MN bound for CN's Keenan yard. They will set out engines and cars and pick up engines and cars before returning back to Two Ha... (more)

After calling to depart Fairlane for Largo, DMIR 405 has received favorable signals and is indeed departing Fairlane to head back north to Largo to load these empties at the mine.

The thick early morning fog still lingers on this cold morning as a Minntac ID rolls south through the yard at Biwabik with steaming pellets still creating a neat rolling fog bank.