A busy day at United Taconite as U717 is waiting to depart back to CN's Proctor yard with 140 loads of iron ore, U730 is finished dumping crude ore for the plant and Keenan yards R901 job is finis... (more)
A handful of old EMDs await some time in the shop at Prince George South.
The fingers of fall shadows reach out for R901 while coming off the Minntac sub at Wolf as they are heading back to Keenan yard with 12 cars after servicing the Minntac commercial yard.
Heading back to Keenan yard with 12 cars after servicing the Minntac commercial yard.
The Keenan Local job is pulling a ballast undercutting and cleaning machine down the Minntac sub and heading back to their namesake yard after pulling it from a storage track.
The Keenan Switch crew is pulling 50 ore cars up the grade to the idled Minorca mine to spot them for loading from the pellet pile on the plant site.
The Keenan Switch crew is pulling 50 ore cars from the yard and going up to the idled Minorca mine to spot them for loading from the pellet pile on the plant site.
The R901 job is tasked with spotting cars on a section of track that is still vintage Missabe complete with DM&IR date nails from the 40's, 50, and 60's evident in the ties along with jointed rail... (more)
Leaving Keenan yard on the way to spot hoppers at Gross-Nelson to be loaded with crushed rock.
Returning back to Keenan yard with 6 DME hoppers after switching the commercial yard at the U.S. Steel Minntac plant.
The Keenan switch crew heads back to their namesake yard with one b.o. ore car that was set out previously.
Coming around the curve awash in fall color the R901 job heads back to Keenan Yard.
All the stored boxcars filling the yard here at Biwabik harken back to the days when this yard had even more tracks with more activity, and it was filled with cars loaded and heaped with natural o... (more)
Returning home to Keenan yard, Job R901 heads south while a regular freight heads north along the somewhat busy CN Missabe sub.
IC GP40-2R 3140 idles outside of CN's diesel shop at Walker Yard.
