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.

The Keenan local is bringing a few more boxcars for temporary storage at Biwabik before continuing on to serve a local company with the trailing tank cars.

A short 1 car train heads to United Taconite to dump this car after it was set out and repairs were made to it. Once dumped, it will return to Keenan yard before being returned to the rest of the ... (more)

The R901 job out of Keenan yard slices through some early morning fog along the CN Minntac sub.

Departed Keenan yard at short time ago heading north with ex-DM&E hoppers loaded with clay in tow for the commercial yard at U.S. Steel Minntac.

After spotting their boxcars onto the storage tracks with the others already there, the crew of the R901 job gives a roll by to the crew of the L594 job which is coming up from Two Harbors with so... (more)

The Keenan local rounds the bend on the running track with a cut of boxcars the crew will tie down and leave here in storage.

Friday the 13th finds R901 rolling through the fall colors as they head towards Biwabik with boxcars for storage.

After switching the commercial yard at Minntac, the R901 crew is heading back south on the Minntac Sub and taking the rare left turn at Noimi Jct. headed to the former DW&P yard at Virginia to pic... (more)

And then sometimes the train comes into view long hood forward. Oh well. They were pulling five DME hoppers though.

On this day the R901 job based out of CN's Keenan yard was tasked with going up to the Mountain Iron yard and retrieving the Plasser & Theurer RM802 High-Production Ballast Undercutting/Cleaning M... (more)

After switching the Minntac commercial yard, it's back to Keenan yard for the R901 crew and these empty bentonite hoppers.

No rest for the weary on this Christmas morning ( note the engineers Santa hat ) as the Keenan switch job is sitting on the siding at Biwabik waiting for an empty pellet train coming up from Two H... (more)

A Friday the 13th 2020 CN ore train. Because nothing is normal this year.

IC 3120 and GTW 4906 return from switching at Dyno Noble headed back to Keenan yard crossing over the former Duluth Missabe and Northern (DM&N) then the DMIR and now the CN bridge along the CN Iro... (more)