A trio of Canadian National Dash 8's lead loaded taconite train U789 as climbs the light grade through the South Fairbanks control point on the Iron Range Subdivision in Fairbanks, Minnesota. With... (more)

Southbound at Fairbanks, MN with iron ore and 32 more miles to go heading down for Two Harbors, MN.

A Canadian National SD40-2W and a trio of Dash 8's lead L594, better known as the MRF (Miscellaneous Road Freight), as it pulls into the siding at Fairbanks, Minnesota on the Iron Range Subdivisio... (more)

This shot shows the same train, at nearly the same spot, on the same day as my RailPictures image #844151. The difference is that the train is about 200’ closer to the photographer and has a muc... (more)

CN 2000 splits the signals at Fairbanks, Minnesota on its way to the ore dock at Two Harbors with a load of hot, steaming Taconite pellets. The pellets originated as raw ore at the Minntac Mine be... (more)

Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range EMD SD38AC No. 206 leads a taconite ore train through Fairbanks, Minnesota, on the morning of September 30, 1989. Only fifteen SD38AC locomotives were built by EMD—s... (more)

CN C40-8 2016 leads ore empties North through Fairbanks.

The familiar face of DMIR 409 heads up a rail train at Fairbanks, MN on the CN Iron Range sub and will drop rail heading back north after the clearing of a northbound empty and a southbound loads ... (more)

DMIR 409 and GTW 5934 lead a rail train down the main on the Iron Range Sub at Fairbanks, MN while an empty ore train holds in the siding and M.o.W. workers hold in their warm trucks. It was nice ... (more)

A nice clear cold early spring morning and steaming taconite pellets head for Two Harbors on the CN Iron Range sub.

A nice quiet wait in anticipation of a train coming into view. Then the train comes around the bend and gets closer and closer rising and falling along the hills and sags of the mainline. Pretty s... (more)

And just like that, here comes 2020 roaring towards you. CN 2020 notches up to climb the grade into Fairbanks, MN (M.P. 31.9 along the CN Iron Range Sub)on the way back to Two Harbors, MN nearing ... (more)

CN SD40u 6017 is lifted in the air at Fairbanks for a field traction motor change out.

Climbing the grade near Fairbanks, 146 loads of ore make their way toward Two Harbors under the lead power of four classic, and matching, Canadian National EMDs.

There's not much else that tops fresh tree flocking in the north woods of Minnesota. Loads for Two Harbors blast through Fairbanks as they head south.