A trio of classic EMD's haul a loaded iron ore taconite train as it comes through Iron Junction on CN's Missabe Sub.

A trio of classic EMD's are doing every bit of track speed on the CN Missabe Sub in Zim, Minnesota as they haul a heavy train of taconite pellets towards Duluth.

A trio of SD40 variants (leader being ex IC) bring ore loads south through Culver.

Light power move

The days are getting shorter and the leaves are starting to turn color as summer gives way to fall and it seems the power desk at CN are in that fall mood already as a colorful lash-up rolls throu... (more)

A quad set of power brings empties from Two Harbors banging across the Ramshaw diamond as they head north to load taconite pellets at the Minorca mine before returning back to Two Harbors.

The ore carrier Presque Isle is moored between the docks in Two Harbors as an SD40-3 shoves empty cars into the outgoing yard on a cold and blustery spring day. The vessel is waiting for a Coast G... (more)

A nice trio of EMDs slalom through the S curves south of Alborn.

An IC-BLE-IC lash handles a loaded tac train across the Whiteface River.

Between CN and BNSF northern Minnesota is a haven for veteran EMD second generation diesels. Here seven EMDs lift limestone up Proctor Hill (three SD40-2W, one SD60, two SD40-3s and an SD40T-3). ... (more)

A combined Proctor Roadswitch and limestone power seven-unit consist powers up Proctor Hill just after a snow squall had moved through the area.

Three former IC (ex-BN) SD40-3s lift 134 ore empties out of Proctor after a fresh snow.

The two Proctor Roadswitch Jobs meet in Duluth. The morning jobs arrives at Dock 6 with ore loads while the night job handles commercial traffic for the mines.

Southbound ore loads have two ex-IC (BN) SD40-3s sandwiching a straight-air-equipped ex-GTW GP38-2, which normally spends its time as the yard engine at Keenan.

MRF bound for Keenan rattles across the new diamond, in which the Missabe's Iron Range Sub crosses the DWP's Rainy Sub.