Typical Minnesota fall weather and scenery. Dreary, an ore train and colored leaves.
Coming into the yard at Biwabik to put some cars into storage on some unused tracks in the old yard once used for natural ore sorting and staging from area mines.
Through the S curve on the double track section of the CN Missabe sub on the way up to Minntac to load iron ore pellets.
Coming up from Two Harbors and closing in on the Ramshaw diamond.
A half hour out of Minntac and through the S-curve on the Missabe sub bound for Two Harbors yard.
Heading for Two Harbors with iron ore loads in tow.
Having a little trackside snack of raspberries waiting for the train to arrive.
Just before sunset, BLE 900 gets lights out of United Taconite and starts the pull back to Proctor yard.
After a meet with an empty coke train that was heading south, IC 6260 pulls off the siding in the former DWP yard at Virginia to continue north for the Minorca mine with limestone loads.
IC 6260 pulling limestone loads north on the CN Missabe sub in the early morning hours of a summer day.
The show must go on as two iron ore trains meet at Biwabik while the aurora borealis light up the night sky.
BLE 906 leading the way up to United Taconite's Fairlane plant to load iron ore.
A small thunderstorm cools things off and gets the mosquitoes moving while CN 2007 keeps the iron ore pellets moving heading down the CN Iron Range sub just past the Ramshaw diamond.
IC 2719 heads north through the control point S. Fairlane with a few containers and many auto racks trailing behind.
The daily Proctor yard to Ranier, MN freight heads north in the early morning light.
