Heading back from the Minorca mine under dark skies and snow falling while crossing over an impressive steel trestle along the CN Keenan Sub.

The Kelly Lake local with their usual Wednesday train of bentonite cars crosses over the Dempsey Creek trestle along the CN Keenan sub as they head west for home to tie up.

Doing some switching of bentonite hoppers and making their outbound train in their namesake yard at Kelly Lake, MN before the day is done.

Coming across the CN Keenan Sub and passing what used to be a small but active yard at Wilpen where the Missabe RR once had natural ore mines in the area that they served and in later years a log ... (more)

Doing some switching in their namesake yard at Kelly Lake, MN before the day is done.

A pair of BN greens work the yard at Kelly Lake as they finish up for the day.

After switching out one gondola and picking two up from a metal recycling business, the Kelly Lake local is heading west about to pass under the former DMIR steel bridge just outside of downtown H... (more)

A pair of GP38-2s amble their way past the former GN depot in Bob Dylan's hometown of Hibbing, MN as they head for their yard west of town at Kelly Lake.

On the way home after switching bentonite hoppers at the Minorca mine the crew now swaps out one gondola and picks up two others from a small siding at a metal scrap yard just outside downtown Hib... (more)

On the way home after switching bentonite hoppers at the Minorca mine and passing by what once was a small stretch of light industrial business along the line.

The Kelly Lake local make some moves to pick up two cars and drop off one car from their train on a siding of a metal recycling business on the east side of town near downtown Hibbing, MN.

The Kelly Lake local passes by some shells of former businesses that once relied on rail service as they head for their yard after a day long trip up to the Minorca mine.

Heading back to their namesake yard, the Kelly Lake local is passing through the small yard at Wilpen on the CN Keenan Sub.

The crew operating as the Kelly Lake local are almost done for the day as they bring their train to rest in their namesake yard and wait for a van back to Superior, WI.

Cruising back to their home yard at Kelly Lake after switching loads of bentonite clay for these empties at the Minorca mine, the namesake local rumbles across the steel trestle over Dempsey Creek... (more)