A rare call to action on the Ely branch/Hinsdale sub at Hoyt Lakes, MN finds R901 pulling a couple sand hoppers out of storage from the Cliffs Erie property (formerly LTV) and bringing them back t... (more)

Pretty Spiffy Erie Mining Baldwin at Hoyt Lakes

Bringing a cut of sand hoppers out of storage and re-entering the CN Iron Range sub at Nugget for the trip back to Keenan yard.

CN 2263 shoves 102 CN grain cars into storage on the Hinsdale Branch. This branch was used by the DM&IR to access Erie Mining Co. when they were in operation up until final owner LTV Steel went ba... (more)

CN 2263 comes around the corner and hits a sliver of early morning sunlight as it pulls 102 CN hoppers that will be put into storage on the Hinsdale branch very shortly once they come to a stop at... (more)

After retrieving 7 stored sand cars, CN 3238 heads past m.p. 2 on the Hinsdale Sub as they make their way back out to the CN Iron Range Sub at cp Nugget.

With a down day at United Taconite, the usual T-Bird power and crew was used to retrieve 7 sand cars from storage on the former Erie Mining, LTV Mining now Cliffs Erie property. Before the other c... (more)

With a down day at United Taconite, the usual T-Bird power and crew was used to retrieve 7 sand cars from storage on the former Erie Mining, LTV Mining now Cliffs Erie property and are seen headin... (more)

CN's local from Two Harbors passing through Nugget on the way to Keenan yard.

Coming up from Two Harbors, CN 2039 runs through the Nugget control point on the CN Iron Range Sub as they travel to the Minntac mine to load iron ore pellets.

LTV/Erie RS-11 7205 works a mine train at their facility in Hoyt Lakes, MN. in September of 1987. These units were seldom photographed as they stayed near the mine and rarely ventured out on the m... (more)

Blasting around the curve at track speed CN 2004 is about to knock the signal down at Nugget while on the move back to Two Harbors with iron ore loads.

An empty ore train for loading at the Minorca mine heads north at Nugget along the CN Iron Range sub.

The Keenan local crew comes up the former DMIR Hinsdale branch empty handed after their paperwork numbers didn't match the cars being stored at the former Erie Mining property, so they were told t... (more)

CN C40-8 2029 leads ore loads South through Allen Junction.