Twenty before the sun sets on the first day of June, CN 5244 pulls out from under the loadout pocket at United taconite's Fairlane plant with 138 cars of pellets for dock at Duluth, MN while in th... (more)

After departing Proctor and coming down Proctor Hill into Duluth with a train of taconite pellets from United Taconite, the Proctor Road Switch crew has run around the train and prepares to shove ... (more)

A close call and a case where the story is better than the photo. Under pending darkness and with light snow falling the crew onboard CN 5244 sounds the bell and then lays on the horn for the roa... (more)

145 loads of ore pass alongside Highland Lake en route to Two Harbors, Minn., from Minntac in Mount Iron, Minn., under the lead power of four Canadian National EMDs.

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.

CN's uniquely built former DMIR ore cars roll through Hoyt Lake on CN's Iron Range Subdivision to Two Harbors, Minn., slicing between a pair of searchlight signals.

A loaded ore train heads for Two Harbors with a fleet of Canadian National EMDs doing the honors. The train is passing searchlight signals still in use on this section of CN's Iron Range Subdivisi... (more)

Freshly made U.S. Steel Minntac taconite pellets head south down the CN Iron Range Sub in heavy snow bound for Two Harbors and the dock.

The first significant snow event of the season is well underway here on Minnesota's Iron Range. U.S. Steel's Minntac plant is still churning out the taconite pellets and the CN crews are still hau... (more)

After loading out at Fairlane, a loaded ore train speeds down the Missabe for Proctor.

A quartet of Canadian National EMD's lead a 146-loads of ore toward Two Harbors, Minn., from Mountain Iron, Minn., on May 1, 2016. Spring hasn't yet sprung on the Iron Range, although temperatures... (more)

As the snow comes down on the northern Minnesota landscape the taconite pellets continue to come down as well from the Iron Range to Proctor to Duluth to a steel mill. Here CN 5244 charges southb... (more)

Thirty years ago on President's Day weekend, the Fraser Canyon in British Columbia received a road closing blizzard. Trains were affected as well with delays in freight movements. This work train ... (more)

A taconite train from U.S. Steel Minntac for Proctor, MN on a snowy Sunday afternoon

The last hour of sunlight brings a golden hue over the Missabe Sub as this northbound ore empty heads west through the tiny town of Munger.