CN 2027 emerges from behind a curtain of fall colors across the landscape.

Northbound from Two Harbors, MN, CN 2007 is running track speed along the CN Iron Range sub thru the yard at Biwabik, MN as they continue on towards U.S. Steel Minntac to load. The string of vint... (more)

No rest for the weary on this Christmas morning ( note the engineers Santa hat ) as the Keenan switch job is sitting on the siding at Biwabik waiting for an empty pellet train coming up from Two H... (more)

A fog filled morning with the red CN nose as really the only color around on this southbound taconite train.

With the backdrop of an old mine dump showing the fading colors of the fall season , CN 2027 rolls though the yard at Biwabik heading towards Two Harbors, MN with 145 cars of taconite pellets.

Now that U.S. Steel's Minntac plant is back to running at full capacity train meets between loads and empties between the world's largest taconite plant and Two Harbors are again possible. It's s... (more)

CN 2001 runs south down the Iron Range sub and through the yard at Biwabik as a fast moving early morning thunderstorm approaches from the north.

A contractor is loading recently built track sections on a flatbed trailer as CN 2001 rounds the curve with taconite pellets that could possibly be made into future rail on this busy early morning... (more)

A brief break in the fog that's rolling across the yard affords the crew of CN 2020 some better vision.

A northbound empty taconite train swings through the yard at Biwabik, MN on their way to load pellets at the U.S. Steel Minntac facility.

CN 2040 is back underway north after a rolling meet with taconite loads heading south on the CN Iron Range sub at Biwabik, MN.

The world of modernization is closing in on the Ex Duluth Missabe and Iron Range main lines of Northern Minnesota. The DMIR's maroon locomotives that once ruled these rails have transitioned to Ca... (more)

After meeting it's counterpart CN 2006 and their loads, CN 2040 with their empties knocks down the signal at N. Biwabik as they continue on their way north on the way up the CN Iron Sub.

CN 2006 is about to knock down the signal at N. Biwabik as they continue on their way south down the CN Iron Range Sub. This photo is an updated one to a recently submitted photo from Greg Mross... (more)

DMIR 163 brings a loaded train of taconite thru Biwabik, MN in September of 1987. Only one track is left in this area now.