A busy day at United Taconite as U717 is waiting to depart back to CN's Proctor yard with 140 loads of iron ore, U730 is finished dumping crude ore for the plant and Keenan yards R901 job is finis... (more)

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 fingers of fall shadows reach out for R901 while coming off the Minntac sub at Wolf as they are heading back to Keenan yard with 12 cars after servicing the Minntac commercial yard.

Heading back to Keenan yard with 12 cars after servicing the Minntac commercial yard.

The Keenan switch crew heads back to their namesake yard with one b.o. ore car that was set out previously.

Coming around the curve awash in fall color the R901 job heads back to Keenan Yard.

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)

Returning home to Keenan yard, Job R901 heads south while a regular freight heads north along the somewhat busy CN Missabe sub.

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 finishing up their work at the Minntac plant, the Keenan Switch job takes the rarely used switch at Noimi Jct. to head north to Virginia to pick up some cars in the former DWP yard before re... (more)

Time to get going as the engineer ramps up the speed.

Having left Keenan yard and getting on the CN Iron Range sub its now off to switch loads for empties at Dyno Nobel on a nice morning.

With work at Minntac completed, a pair of former IC GP's lead Canadian National local R901 as they cruise through the swamp outside of Mountain Iron, Minnesota and head back to Keenan Yard.

The Keenan local crew comes up the former DMIR Hinsdale branch empty handed after their paperwork numbers didn't match the cars being stored at the former Erie Mining property, so they were told t... (more)