Testing and evaluating track on the CN Keenan Sub at Wilpen.

A pair of GTW locos make their way along to do some switching at a local blasting company's yard.

CN checking some of their infrastructure with their former passenger RDC-1 car on the CN Keenan Sub. CN 1501 is checking the siding at Wilpen. Note the remains of a DM&IR branch line that once ser... (more)

CN 50936, a newly refurbished Jordan Spreader, is working the CN Keenan Sub with three IC SD40-3's pushing. They have cleared to the end of the line at Emmert and will now do the siding here at Wi... (more)

CN 50936, a newly refurbished Jordan Spreader, is working the CN Keenan Sub with three IC SD40-3's pushing. They have cleared to the end of the line at Emmert and will now do the siding here at Wi... (more)

Coming across the CN Keenan Sub and passing what used to be a small but active yard at Wilpen where the Missabe RR once had natural ore mines in the area that they served and in later years a log ... (more)

After switching out one gondola and picking two up from a metal recycling business, the Kelly Lake local is heading west about to pass under the former DMIR steel bridge just outside of downtown H... (more)

A pair of GP38-2s amble their way past the former GN depot in Bob Dylan's hometown of Hibbing, MN as they head for their yard west of town at Kelly Lake.

On the way home after switching bentonite hoppers at the Minorca mine the crew now swaps out one gondola and picks up two others from a small siding at a metal scrap yard just outside downtown Hib... (more)

On the way home after switching bentonite hoppers at the Minorca mine and passing by what once was a small stretch of light industrial business along the line.

The Kelly Lake local make some moves to pick up two cars and drop off one car from their train on a siding of a metal recycling business on the east side of town near downtown Hibbing, MN.

The Kelly Lake local passes by some shells of former businesses that once relied on rail service as they head for their yard after a day long trip up to the Minorca mine.

A loaded taconite train coming from Hibbing Taconite is almost to track speed as they roll down the Casco Sub just south of Hibbing, MN.

The once-a-week Kelly Lake local and their standard train consisting of 5 cars of bentonite clay heading east on the CN Keenan sub using trackage rights to serve the Minorca mine north of Virginia... (more)

Activating four sets of crossing signals, two of which are still the old Griswolds, this all rail taconite crawls through downtown Hibbing, MN at 10 mph. In another couple miles they will be out o... (more)