CN 2029 leads a Southbound ID near Wales Junction.

CN 2031 leads a Southbound ID through Ramshaw.

CN 2040 leads a Southbound ID through Highland.

CN C40-8 2131 holds near Plainfield with a Southbound rail train. It's rare to see these units anywhere but the former Missabe lines in Minnesota these days.

Going back to Proctor yard with limestone empties.

Leaving the mine and heading to the processing plant with taconite rock.

The T-Bird trains were alittle mix of old and new on our trip this time in 2020. This one had old SD40 and C40 combo, while the other T-Bird had a pair of newer AC-GE's. These trains run from the ... (more)

An empty ore train out of Two Harbors is about 78 miles into their trip north to the Minntac Plant near Mountain Iron, MN. These trains make the 168 mile round trip to and from Two Harbors many ti... (more)

CSX Waterville, Maine to Selkirk, New York manifest train M427 is seen heading down the Stony Brook Branch in North Chelmsford. The crew will drop the Ayer cut of cars in Graniteville before runni... (more)

A northbound CN freight rumbles and bumbles along up the CN Missabe sub passing through the control points of S. and N. Fairlane while heading to Canada as the northern lights dance in the sky abo... (more)

Three dash 8s take a loaded train south into Two Harbors.

A T-Bird has pulled up and called the CN RTC desk looking for lights to leave the plant and head back to the mine to reload. Seems to be lights all around.

MEC C40-8 7594 on Track 1 passing closed Ayer Tower. Will be heading back to the yard through the east leg of Hill Yard in Ayer. The yard switcher has dropped some empties for an outbound train.

Reduced to being a lowly yard switcher this GE is idling out front of the old Clinchfield HQ. Somewhere there's on the site there's a shot of the unit in stealth scheme.

Back in the day when the Santa Train was not so glamorous the consist threads it way southward through bare trees in murky weather. Only the train changes.