A trio of BLE orange hustle 48 loads of limestone north along the CN Missabe sub heading for the Minorca mine near Virginia, MN.

Wildfire smoke in the air and wildflower color in the foreground, CN 2041 starts its way back down to the Two Harbors yard and dock.

Two very different veterans pull vintage Missabe ore cars.

Rounding the bend with steaming taconite pellets in tow.

IC 6253, CN 5349, DMIR 404 and finally CN 2004 backhaul forty-eight loads of pellet chips and fines down from Minntac after delivering forty-eight loads of limestone to the plant.

A TBird mine shuttle with a BLE duo as power heads south on a nice spring morning with rock for the plant.

An empty limestone train heads south down the Missabe back to Proctor, MN.

A lengthy ballast train returns off the CN Iron Range Sub here at East Wye after dumping further south down by Two Harbors, MN as CN continues to rehab the route from the mines of the Iron Range t... (more)

BLE 906 and sister 909 make a nice-looking combo as they glide down from the mine to the plant working a mine shuttle job.

After a mechanical failure with some conveyor belting at Two Harbors, CN 2028 was told to wye the train at Allen Jct. and come back and now they are coming off the CN Iron Range sub using the east... (more)

Coming to the end of the CN Iron Range sub, CN 2004 will take the signal and hit the CN Missabe sub heading north bound for Minntac to load taconite pellets.

Coming off the CN Iron Range sub and shortly getting onto the CN Missabe sub, DMIR 406 leads with a long string of ballast cars in tow that they will shove into Keenan yard.

Storming up the Missabe Sub passing the now abandoned former DM&IR dispatcher/m.o.w. building at Iron Jct. an IC SD40-3 duo heads back to the mine.

Down from Minntac and now making the turn at Iron Jct. west wye for Two Harbors, MN

A BLE duo pulls taconite rock south on the CN Missabe sub.