Heading north on the CN Missabe Sub to load iron ore pellets on Christmas Eve.

Quietly gliding along the CN Iron Range Sub these rebuilt GE's and new ore cars are much stealthier than the SD40's and the cars they used to pull through here but it's the red CN nose that makes ... (more)

Quietly moving along the CN Iron Range Sub for loading at the U.S. Steel Minntac plant which is still a little under an hour way yet. These new ore cars and the rebuilt GE's are much quieter, alm... (more)

Heading up the Missabe Sub for the Minntac Sub to load iron ore pellets at the U.S. Steel Minntac plant.

CN 3308 climbs the grade into the Minntac mine property with about 4 more miles and a half hour to go before they are positioned under the west loadout pocket to begin loading iron ore pellets.

A white winter wonderland landscape while the new rebuilds and the new ore cars are getting that used look to them already hauling taconite pellets from the mines down to the ore dock at Two Harbo... (more)

Shiny new rebuilds move marbles from the Minorca mine and are about to take a right turn at Shelton Jct. as they head down to Two Harbors, MN.

Steaming taconite pellets move south down the CN Rainy sub after loading at the Minorca mine just outside Virginia, MN.

A rebuilt AC44C6M shows off it's shiny paint scheme at Hamilton.

Made up of mainly new Richardson grain cars, G815's train is tied down in track 5 at Jasper.

Richardson grain loads wait for a new crew in track #5.

Pyramid Mountain towers over CN AC44C6M 3308.

G815's train is tied down in track #5 at Jasper behind AC44C6M 3308.

CN's Aldershot-Mac Yard turn heads back home with new CN AC44C6M 3308 leading the train out onto the Halton Sub at Snider West.

Last light at Caramat... CN M313 skirts the shores of Caramat Lake on the Caramat Sub at Caramat, Ontario!