CN SD40-2 IC6255 is seen leading a eastbound loaded taconite train from Minntac to Two Harbours at Biwabik - 25/03/2012

Empties out of Two Harbors blast thru North Biwabik on the way to MinnTac for another load of pellets.

After holding the main at Biwabik and meeting a set of empties, DMIR SD40T-3 408 wastes no time getting its 145 loads on the move.

On a beautiful fall afternoon, IC #6254 leads empties back to the mine at Minntac.

Looking a little worse for wear DMIR #405 winds its train of empties through the former DM&IR yard at Biwabik. (pronounced BYE WA BIK)

DM&IR 400 is in charge of taconite loads from the Minorca mine while they have a rolling meet in the yard at Biwabik with an empty train heading back to the Minntac mine.

Empties from Two Harbors rolls into Biwabik heading back for the mines.

A displaced BLE unit leads an empty Minntac into the siding at Biwabik for a meet with a loaded train.

On a beautiful July 4th morning, an electric set of EMDs lead a loaded Minntac train towards Two Harbors. Consists like this can be found no where else but the DM&IR.

IC 6250 takes a Minorca empty through the east end of Biwabik.

Loaded pellets head through Biwabik during a brief spring blizzard.

An empty for the Minntac Mine near Iron Mountain is in the siding at Biwabik to meet a loaded rock train that just came out of the Minntac Mine. The rock trains are seasonal trains on the Iron Ran... (more)

A couple of old DM&IR M.o.W. carts rest near the end of the track while a 120 car string of old DM&IR quad sets rest waiting for warmer weather and the return (hopefully) to BFT service.

DM&IR 403 has already gone by heading towards Two Harbors with steaming taconite pellets and the F.R.E.D. is following along in it's tracks.

Familiar faces of GMD's best mainline power from the 1970s and early 1980s sit side-by-side at Biwabik. The Keenan Switch deposits cars in Biwabik Yard before taking coal loads to Minnesota Power'... (more)