Loads and empties meet at Biwabik with an exchange of pleasantries between crews.

The thick early morning fog still lingers on this cold morning as a Minntac ID rolls south through the yard at Biwabik with steaming pellets still creating a neat rolling fog bank.

A nice summer afternoon at N. Biwabik along the CN Iron Range sub with pellet loads and empties going in opposite directions.

CN 2020 leads ore loads South through Biwabik.

Loaded and empty ore trains meet at Biwabik, each with a trio of CN C40-8s.

A nice quiet summer evening finds northbound CN 2031 throttling up at N. Biwabik after sitting and on the siding waiting for southbound loads to pass. After the dust, diesel exhaust, wheels squea... (more)

CN 2028 rounds the curve at Biwabik on the way north. Using your best horse racing call/voice makes it more interesting.

Giving the friendly roll-by at N. Biwabik two taconite trains meet on a pleasant July afternoon.

Thundering north on the trip from Two Harbors, MN along the CN Iron Range sub passing through the mostly empty yard at Biwabik, MN.

Loaded taconite train traversing the S curve at N Biwabik on the way south to Two Harbors, MN

Hot, humid and hazy as CN 2025 rolls along pulling steaming pellets from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant. The Canadian wildfire smoke has been thick the last several weeks across northern Minnesota, ... (more)

CN 2031 north and their empties prepare to give a roll-by to CN 2026 south with their loads at north Biwabik.

Empties from Two Harbors take the siding at Biwabik and will wait briefly for their counterpart loads that will be coming shortly.

Pellets from the Minorca mine (the pit is coincidently located behind the train about a mile but the processing plant is located north of Virginia, MN off the CN Rainy sub about an hour behind the... (more)

A local passes the small yard at Biwabik.