After switching out cars at the Perma Treat Corporation in Durham, CT-1 comes south with four C40-8s bracketing three empty covered hoppers. The train will make a reverse move on Tilcons Reeds Gap... (more)

Providence & Worcester C40-8 4053 leads train CT-1 in a pocket of sun, as it approaches the rock-cut in Durham. This is one of my favorite locations on the Middletown Main.

Less than an hour after sunrise, CN 2029 is just about an hour into their trip to Two Harbors, MN with these steaming pellets made at Minntac and passing through the yard at Biwabik, MN. On the ho... (more)

Train CHFP with a quartet of Providence & Worcester GE C40-8s with 64 loads for Fresh Pond Yard in Queens, NY, bypasses West Haven Station just after sunset on July 8, 2022.

After a mechanical failure with some conveyor belting at Two Harbors, CN 2028 was told to wye the train at Allen Jct. and come back and now they are coming off the CN Iron Range sub using the east... (more)

Catching the last rays of sun as they head north on the CN Rainy Sub bound for the Minorca mine in a few more miles.

Moving from Main 1 over to Main 2, CN 2107 heads back to the mine while passing a mixed freight that's waiting for traffic to clear up ahead on the CN Rainy sub before they can themselves proceed ... (more)

Coming to the end of the CN Iron Range sub, CN 2004 will take the signal and hit the CN Missabe sub heading north bound for Minntac to load taconite pellets.

Ripping along heading up to the Minorca mine to load taconite pellets.

On the last evening of June and right around sunset, Providence & Worcester train CHFP with 96 loads of stone for Fresh Pond Yard in Queens, NY, rolls westbound under the catenary at milepost 68 o... (more)

Heading up the CN Minntac sub to load taconite pellets and passing a sleeping ballast cleaner along the way.

Barking along the CN Iron Range sub with taconite pellets in tow, a trio of Dash 8's greet the early morning sun.

Down from Minntac and now making the turn at Iron Jct. west wye for Two Harbors, MN

After loading pellets at Minntac, the crew was told to spike their train down here at Biwabik and wait for the van as a major weekday track project near Two Harbors on the Iron Range Sub prevents ... (more)

Catching the last sliver of sunlight, the late afternoon/early evening trip from Proctor Yard to Symington (Winnipeg) has an interesting power choice in the fact only ore pool engines are moving t... (more)