NS 22H has just entered the Mon Line and is passing CP Isle where the Island Connector diverges from Main 1. The setting sun highlights both the train and the Pittsburgh skyline in the distance. ... (more)

A loaded coal train, 746, rolls past the depot as they make their way east (south) on the Sandusky District. The 110-car train is bound for the Duke Energy Plant in Belews Creek, NC. The train has... (more)

The daily Crete, VA, to Bellevue, OH, yard manifest train rolls north on the NS Sandusky District near Waldo. The train is sporting the mixed bag of power, including the veterans unit. The train i... (more)

Due to Interchange with Norfolk Southern, KCSs I-ATDA used to be the carrier train of special power of NS to Texas. NS 4000 is a AC44C6M' rebuilt from Dash 9-40C locomotives. 4000 and 4001 are the... (more)

The daylight is gone as Canadian National Loaded Taconite train U78981 for Two Harbors passes through Wolf, MN, coming off the Minntac Sub.

Canadian National empty crude ore "T-Bird" U73082 departs from the Fairlane United Taconite Plant after shuttling the ore from Thunderbird Mine.

With only moments of daylight left to spare, the Tennessee Alabama & Georgia heritage unit leads NS I69 across the massive Ohio Connecting Bridge in Pittsburgh, PA. Thanks to a late tip I learned... (more)

Modernized Machine ready to make revenue

The T-bird trains run back and forth many times a day for United Taconite. They move raw ore from their mine near Largo to their processing plant at Fairlane. These trains don't go far in distance... (more)

I am surprised the CN lets these taconite loaders weigh down the trains in the fashion they do. This Fairlane train out of the United Taconite loadout is filled to the gills. Now as the train gets... (more)

A Fairlane empty is just north of Kelsey on the Missabe Sub. Rebuild GEs seem to be the new norm now for all the Iron Range trains working out of Proctor and Two Harbors in mid-2025.

An empty ore train bound for the United Taconite Plant at Fairlane passes this nice greenhouse near MP 52 on the Missabe Sub. The ACs have really taken over the Iron Range now; while nice and new,... (more)

The CN Missabe Sub crosses the Cloquet River near MP 26. This 440-foot-long and roughly 40-foot-high bridge is one of the few big bridges in the Iron Range area. Here a limestone train heads north... (more)

Seen from high atop Bruner’s Cut, a pair of new AC44C6M rebuilds descend Old Fort Mountain with loaded DKPX coal train 744 for Plant Marshall.

A heavy 351 roars upgrade at Efland behind a trio of road units.