It's an early morning while Canadian wildfire smoke covers the area at 0630 as CN 2263 pulls 102 empty all matched CN grain cars that the crew will put into storage on the Hinsdale branch.
DMIR 406 and sister DMIR 409 pull cars loaded with iron ore pellets through the yard at Biwabik, MN on the way down to Two Harbors, MN and the dock. The pellets came from the idled Minorca mine. ... (more)
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)