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)
A little switching in Biwabik on a Sunday morning after bringing a couple cars over from Keenan Yard. The R901 job will now head back light power to Keenan with more work to take care of.
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.
Had to head out to retrieve a bad order set-out and bring it back to CN's Keenan yard, GTW 6223 is close to completing the assignment as they come off the Iron Range Sub east wye and are a about a... (more)
Testing and evaluating track on the CN Keenan Sub at Wilpen.
Clearing snow on the CN Iron Range Sub, a Deathstar was leading two other IC units pushing a Jordan spreader along the rails.
A rare call to action on the Ely branch/Hinsdale sub at Hoyt Lakes, MN finds R901 pulling a couple sand hoppers out of storage from the Cliffs Erie property (formerly LTV) and bringing them back t... (more)
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.
Moving a cut of grain cars around Keenan yard. This power would be the outbound when the train leaves for Canada with 10k feet of matched CN hoppers for the fall grain rush.
A pair of GTW locos make their way along to do some switching at a local blasting company's yard.
As the temperatures drops and fall is on the way into NE Minnesota, maybe this refurbished Jordan spreader will see action this winter as well.
The Keenan Local job is pulling a ballast undercutting and cleaning machine down the Minntac sub and heading back to their namesake yard after pulling it from a storage track.
Bringing a cut of sand hoppers out of storage and re-entering the CN Iron Range sub at Nugget for the trip back to Keenan yard.
The Keenan Switch crew is pulling 50 ore cars up the grade to the idled Minorca mine to spot them for loading from the pellet pile on the plant site.
