CN train U714 enters the tiny bit of TWC territory left on CN's Missabe Sub at Mile 51.

Pacing a dirty SD70M-2 heading north.

BLE and DMIR SD40T-3s 900 and 404 trundle south with 141 loads of taconite for Proctor.

CN SD40-2(W) 5335 leads limestone loads for Minntac northward.

BLE 909, CN 5349 and DMIR 406 team up to haul 141 loads of taconite towards Proctor and eventually the docks at Duluth.

U711's loads head into TWC territory behind BLE SD40T-3 909.

Creating their own fog trail, U717's BLE 909 and DMIR 404 struggle south with 141 loads of fresh taconite.

Having copied a warrant earlier, CN 5411 proceeds into TWC territory at Mile 51 on CN's Missabe Sub.

U717 is just out of Utac as it steams along Highway 7 at the slight bend in the Missabe Subdivision at Sax, MN. Power is BLE 904, DM&IR 403, and CN 6017.

Everything in this shot besides the rails will be gone in 5 years.

CN and BNSF team up to move taconite pellets from U.S. Steel Minntac to Allouez, Wisconsin with these shuttle trains made up of CN power and lots of BNSF ore cars. This is the first train of the ... (more)

In 2005, when James Schultz and I both worked at the LSRM, he introduced me to railroad photography. A few years later he left for the IC&E, and now he is back in town, this time as one of the you... (more)

Young hogger James Schultz has 140 Uni-Tac loads thundering at track speed towards Alborn and a crew change.

A hot CN intermodal runs track speed down the Missabe Sub. on an early fall morning.

U-715 speeds south at track speed through Sax, MN with maroon DMIR 215 leading. The clouds would increase as the train continued south, leaving the bright blue skies seen here behind.