A few minutes and a few miles into the trip back to Two Harbors with iron ore from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant.

An unusual winter that saw very little snow fall across NE Minnesota, today was an exception rather than the norm with heavy snow falling as CN 2016 takes the siding at Biwabik for a meet.

Tonight's Berkshire & Eastern power lined up and ready to go.

An import coal train passes through Devine Junction in Columbia, South Carolina in 2012. NS 8761 was later be rebuilt into C40-8.5W 8513.

4005 & 4008 switch ballast cars in Safford

Three Dash 8s and 140 new cars head north about to cross the CN Rainy sub at the Ramshaw diamond.

CN 2026 leads the way with 140 almost brand new only about a week in service and made by FreightCar America-Mexico ore cars trailing as they head to U.S. Steel Minntac to load and return to Two Ha... (more)

CN 2026 leads a string of almost brand-new ore cars north near Gilbert, MN as they head to load at the Minntac taconite plant.

After a crew change at Linwood, NS 203 is back on the move South making track speed through Salisbury.

Hotshot NS 203 blasts South through Thomasville after midnight enroute for Atlanta with a CN C40-8 on the point.

An early morning with wildfire smoke already visible in the air finds CN 2039 heading up the Minntac sub near m.p. 5 with empties that they'll start loading in about a half hour.

CN 2039 roars north with ore empties as a ground level railfan has just captured the action.

A little snow falling as this empty ID from Two Harbors heads for U.S. Steel Minntac to load the trailing ore cars.

Coming up from Two Harbors and across the CN Iron Range Sub it's now down the Missabe Sub for Proctor then down the hill to Duluth and back to the North Shore Scenic Railroad depot for this passen... (more)

Rolling toward Los Angeles is a Union Pacific double-stack train being pulled by UP Dash 8-40C 9129, teamed with a pair of SD60s and two more Dash 9-40Cs. (Ontario, California – March 1988)