A Canadian National SD40-2W and a trio of Dash 8's lead L594, better known as the MRF (Miscellaneous Road Freight), as it gets back on the move approaching Iron Junction, Minnesota. The train had ... (more)

A trio of standard cab Dash 8's roll out their final miles before retirement. CN 2004, 2040 and 2010 have a train of empties well in hand as they roll north on the approach to Ramshaw in Iron Junc... (more)

We managed to find a lone thunderstorm here, and all hell broke loose for about 15 minutes. Lucky for us, this Minntac load showed up afterward. Steam from the cold bath covers the tracks as the t... (more)

Led by an SD40-2Q, Canadian National's U791 rounds the bend as it rolls through Iron Junction, Minnesota and past a DMIR searchlight signal that guards the junction. With a load of taconite pellet... (more)

A trio of C40-8's lead a steaming train of taconite loads from Minntac on the U789 as and heads towards Two Harbors. The train is getting on the Iron Range Subdivision at Iron Junction, Minnesota ... (more)

A pair of CN GP40-2W's bring a local south through Iron Junction

CN C40-8 2004 leads ore empties North into Iron Junction. The days of these former CNW GEs up here are numbered,

With a short brake in the clouds, we catch Duluth Missabe and Iron Range, DM&IR SD40-3 414 - 412, with a load of taconite heading to Two Harbors docks about to enter Iron Juction, Minnesota. Septe... (more)

DM&IR SD38AC 206 and SD38-2 211 with a loaded T-bird at Iron Junction, Minnesota. September 30, 2006. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Loads out of Minntac are back on the Two Harbors Sub for the 70 or so miles back to their destination at Two Harbors. The train pokes around the Iron Jct Wye at 10 mph, before getting back up to s... (more)

BLE 909 rolls an empty limestone train south between Iron Jct. & Keenan Jct. passing under highway 37. BLE 909 was built as an SD45T-2 in February 1973 as SSW 6890. BLE was acquired by the CN and ... (more)

CN 5349 leads an empty taconite train around the bend at Iron Junction.

A trio of C40-8's lead empty Canadian National ore train U792 from Two Harbors as it approaches Iron Junction, Minnesota. This train will take the north leg of the wye to get on to the Missabe ... (more)

A pair of CN Dash 8's lead empty raw ore shuttle U730 as it heads north approaching Iron Junction, Minnesota where it will head to the Thunderbird Mine for another load. The train has just passed ... (more)

With a Bessemer & Lake Erie tunnel motor and a CN Anniversary Dash 8 on the point, CN U731 rounds the bend as it rolls through Iron Junction, Minnesota and heads towards the Fairlane Taconite Plan... (more)