March 12th and it's minus 15 degrees on this fine late winter morning as CN 5337 leads three other EMD products and 58 empty DMIR difco sidedumps down from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant about to cr... (more)
Heading into the low sun angle of a December winter afternoon, CN 5244 leads the miscellaneous road freight coming up from Two Harbors, MN to be dropped off at CN's Keenan yard.
The MRF (Miscellaneous Road Freight) rolls north to Keenan with interchange traffic including a Northshore Mining locomotive going back for warranty work while a CN snowfighter heads south to get ... (more)
A few miles into the southbound trip down the CN Missabe sub back to Proctor with fresh pellet loads and a quick look over the shoulder reveals exhaust plumes that United Taconite is still running... (more)