After cresting the Laurentian Divide north of Virginia, MN along the CN Rainy Sub it's technically all downhill to Canada for these containers.

DMIR 404 leads back to CN's Two Harbors yard with a couple of cars of freight and is taking the east leg of the wye at Iron Jct. to get onto the Iron Range Sub for the trip.

A little frost on the landscape as CN 3338 glides south on the Missabe Sub with rock from the mine to the United Taconite plant.

A pair of DMIR locomotives pull a few cars from CN's yard at Two Harbors and are nearing their end point at CN's Keenan yard on this frosty afternoon. They'll have to slow up a bit to allow this ... (more)

MILW 695B & A team up at the engine facilities at Pigs Eye Yard, St. Paul. They were regularly assigned to hump duties at this time. The TR4 A/B team were built in January 1951.

A pair of DMIR locomotives pull a few cars from CN's yard at Two Harbors and are nearing their end point at CN's Keenan yard on this frosty afternoon.

This northbound CN container train is the only color on the landscape on an otherwise dull day.

A pair of GE B39-8E's lead the Minnesota Commercial's Belt Job as it returns south from interchange and heads towards the yard at Midway with a long train in tow. The train has just passed under t... (more)

It's quiet. Here comes a train. Then it will be quiet again.

Keenan Job R901 heads out down the CN Iron Range Sub for Dyno Nobel, a blasting company serving the mines of NE Minnesota, to switch out empties and loads.

After a set-out and pick-up at CN's Keenan yard, L568 is heading for CN's Proctor yard.

Climbing the grade into Allen Jct. while on the move south towards Two Harbors, MN.

Rolling at track speed on the CN Iron Range Sub heading to CN's Tho Harbors, MN yard and dock facilities.

All loaded out with fresh made iron ore pellets, DMIR 405, DMIR 400 and DMIR 408 are marked up as U717 and are looking for lights to depart United Taconite and head back to CN's Proctor yard.

Canadian National Raw Taconite Ore train U73084 "T-Bird" thunders over the St. Louis River in Forbes, MN enroute from Thunderbird Mine to the Fairlane United Taconite Plant.