After cresting the Laurentian Divide north of Virginia, MN along the CN Rainy Sub it's technically all downhill to Canada for these containers.

This northbound CN container train is the only color on the landscape on an otherwise dull day.

CN 3847 is almost into Canada passing the bevy of security features at speeds of less than ten miles per hour on the single-track lift bridge, built in 1908, which crosses the Rainy River between ... (more)

Another quarter mile and this crew will come to a stop ending their trip from CN's Pokegama yard to Ranier, MN. As soon as they get off the train, a Canadian crew will jump on board and cross the... (more)

Shoving the containers over the border and into Canada.

Pushing a northbound container train heading for the Canadian border is a CN locomotive not wearing CN colors.

The first snows of the season fall as some fall color hangs on across the landscape while a CN container train rolls north for Cananda.

The DPU of a southbound container train crossing over the Cloquet River near the small town of Twig, MN.

A stack train heading south on the CN Rainy sub crosses over the Cloquet River near Twig, MN on a hot and muggy morning. Disclosure-there were many many mosquitos killed in the taking of this pho... (more)

A southbound stack slows down coming to a stop at the light to wait for a northbound on the busy CN Rainy sub. This is the first lengthy siding at 10,100 ft. north of where the CN Rainy sub and t... (more)

CN 3008, the Illinois Central heritage scheme, is northbound on the CN Missabe Sub at iron Jct. MN as the DP unit on this Q train headed for Ranier and the crossing over the Canadian border and po... (more)

CN 3008, the Illinois Central heritage scheme, is northbound on the CN Rainy Sub at Virginia, MN as the DP unit on this Q train headed for Ranier and the crossing over the Canadian border and poin... (more)

Train horns to the left, train horns to the right, here we are at the Ramshaw diamond. A southbound container train at track speed heads down the Rainy sub while GTW 4906 holds back on the Iron R... (more)

It never fails... 4.7hpt & you get stuck behind the herd! BNSF 7947, 4517, 6666 & 8025 leads this Q-train that took nearly 4hrs to getup the hill!

A brand new GEVO leads a stack train west out of Chicago.