In honor of Star Wars Day, here's IC 6260 on the headend of a string of ore cars being loaded on the siding at Biwabik, MN. These loads are the result of reclaimed taconite pellets that were suck... (more)

CN 3338 is the DPU on these ore loads pushing through S. Biwabik as they travel to Two Harbors, MN.

After a meet with a northbound, CN 3318 is ramping back up to track speed to pull these iron ore loads down to the yard at Two Harbors for stockpile until the shipping season resumes.

The DP from an east loadout at Minntac hits N. Biwabik as it heads south for Two Harbors, MN while a northbound empty sits in the siding giving the roll-by before proceeding.

A trio of standard cab Dash 8's are moving right along as they take control of a train of steaming pellets bound for Two Harbors. The standard cab Dash 8 era on the Iron Range ended not long after... (more)

Pulling through the yard at Biwabik, MN these taconite pellets are heading for the shore of Lake Superior at Two Harbors, MN.

Swinging around the corner off the old DM&N grade and onto the former grade of the D&IR, U791 hits N. Biwabik on the modern-day CN Iron Range sub heading for Two Harbors at 1700 hrs. on a cold win... (more)

The U791 is stopped at m.p. 59 on the CN Iron Range sub as U788 approaches on the siding which will stop briefly to allow a student engineer to get off then climb on the southbound loads for the t... (more)

Breaking trail and taking the siding at Biwabik for a meet with taconite loads already waiting on the main.

The Keenan Local chugs along the main at Biwabik, MN as they head to Dyno Nobel to switch loads for empties.

Summer is past. The leaves are down. And the Dash 8's on the Iron Range of NE Minnesota have come to the end of their era as well.

Southbound ore loads at Biwabik going to Two Harbors, MN and the dock facilities.

All the stored boxcars filling the yard here at Biwabik harken back to the days when this yard had even more tracks with more activity, and it was filled with cars loaded and heaped with natural o... (more)

CN 3334 leads the way onto the siding at Biwabik, MN to meet loads that are waiting to head south on the main after they clear the switch at S. Biwabik. This train, that loads at Minntac's east lo... (more)

A southbound pellet train loaded from Minntac's west pocket meets an empty pellet train heading to Minntac's east pocket to load. The sb has the two engines up front while the nb had a 1x1 setup ... (more)