Blasting around the curve at track speed CN 2004 is about to knock the signal down at Nugget while on the move back to Two Harbors with iron ore loads.

A familiar "fish in a barrel", this unit sat by the street for years and was shot by everybody but I thought the sun was particularly good on this date so here it is. I made up a report... (more)

In the last light of the day a UP Coke train heads north on the CN Missabe sub at Fairlane bound for Thunder Bay, ON.

On the Minntac sub heading north to the largest taconite processing facility in the world to load iron ore pellets.

The mine at Minorca isn't as busy as the other 2 mines on the Range, but trains still come and go daily from this plant. A trio of C40's chug along as they pull a train of empties from Two Harbors... (more)

Loads out of Minntac are back on the Two Harbors Sub for the 70 or so miles back to their destination at Two Harbors. The train pokes around the Iron Jct Wye at 10 mph, before getting back up to s... (more)

The Rainy Sub south of Virginia is mainly used for southbound trains bound for the Stevens Point on beyond. The Rainy is old DW&P territory from the Canadian boarder to Duluth. CN still uses alot ... (more)

UPY GP15-1 733 leads a local East through Duluth, heading to Rice's Point Yard.

Making the turn off the CN Missabe sub and about to enter the United Taconite property with loads of raw ore are two clean, 15-year anniversary artwork painted dash8s that were taken out of the CN... (more)

An empty ore train for loading at the Minorca mine heads north at Nugget along the CN Iron Range sub.

Snow continues to fall as blue hour switches to darkness while BLE 906 gets lights to pull iron ore loads from United Taconite and begin the return trip back to Proctor yard.

The St. Paul to Kansas City daily freight train had some unusual motors in the consist. A pair of CP hydrogen locomotives are dead in tow. Each locomotive is painted in a unique paint scheme for t... (more)

Kind of a bummer that the T-birds had CN-AC motors on them last summer. The T-birds work between the mine at Largo and the United Taconite Plant at Fairlane. We were chasing a trio of C40s on a Mi... (more)

Empties at Two Harbors do not leave the way they came in. I believe that's due to the headroom issue at Two Harbors, loads are dumped and then shoved towards an outbound yard. Empties then depart ... (more)

Empties at Two Harbors do not leave the way they came in. I believe that's due to the headroom issue at Two Harbors, loads are dumped and then shoved towards an outbound yard. Empties then depart ... (more)