CN C40-8 2107 and DMIR SD40T-3 400 head back towards Largo for another load of crude ore.

Saskatchewan Potash hammers across the DMIR

Local forest products traffic from International Falls, Fort Frances, Barwick, and Thunder Bay head South on this extra freight.

BLE 900 & DMIR 402 lead 48 loads of limestone

Loaded ore for Two Harbors, MN crosses over the DW&P diamond

The Kelly Lake Local cruises down the Keenan Sub from Hibbing, MN with bentnite clay loads for the Minorca mine north of Virginia, MN.

While the van waits, the CN crew prepares to tie down this BNSF all-rail taconite train after they finished loading at United Taconite. A new BNSF crew will take the train and begin the trip to Me... (more)

A pair of matched ex-C&NW C41-8s lead a loaded crude ore train towards the Fairlane processing plant.

Several of the new ore cars on a Two Harbors bound ore train from Minntac derailed as they rounded the corner from the Missabe Sub. to the Iron Range Sub. One of the power sets from the T-Bird tr... (more)

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

A loaded ore train bound for Two Harbors derailed a number of its new cars on the west wye switch at Iron Junction, causing a major disruption to traffic at the busiest junction in northeastern Mi... (more)

A handful of former CNW/UP Dash 8's have been assigned to the former Missabe and are in use on the T-Birds hauling raw ore between the pit at Largo and the plant near Fairlane.

More snow for northern Minnesota! An empty BFT (Blast Furnace Trim) train with the very old DM&IR regular side ore cars rolls north on the Iron Range Sub about to cross the Ramshaw Diamond with t... (more)

Due to flooding in other parts of the state, CP is detouring some of it's trains on the CN. Here is CP 8572 in charge of one of those detours as they run track speed southbound down the CN Rainy ... (more)

Fire and Ice. The Loram RG 309 works it's way down the CN Rainy Subdivision on a cold and frosty morning doing what it does best, grinding rail.