Sticking out like a sore thumb on a snow day R901, the Keenan local, brings over some cars for switching at the Viking explosives plant on the Keenan sub. Snow in switches and other delays would ... (more)

Freshly painted and washed SD38s power a mining engineer train that included passenger cars from the WC, Missabe and Duluth museum. BN's "Range Rocket" local holds the siding in the distance and w... (more)

A very rare visitor to Minnesota's Iron Range and today there were four of them. A quad set of Ferromex GE's charge east at Wilpen, MN with 120 cars for loading at United Taconite's Fairlane pla... (more)

The Kelly Lake local makes tracks and kicks up fresh snow as they use trackage rights heading over on the once a week trip down the CN Keenan Sub to deliver betonite clay to the Minorca mine on Mi... (more)

Working in less than ideal conditions but at least working a logger puts the finishing touches on a load of pulp wood just as the Keenan Switch crew arrives to take the loaded cars away and leave ... (more)

In between snow squalls, the BNSF 9685 runs through what remains of the small yard at Wilpen. In it's heyday, Wilpen was used more for staging natural ore loads and empties from the various local ... (more)