A loaded ore train out of the Minntac Mine at Mount Iron, MN, makes the hard left turn off the Missabe Sub onto the Iron Range Sub for the 74 mile trip to Two Harbors.

CN has been updating the mainline around the Shelton Junction area to help increase train efficiency in the area. With that the signal system is getting updated too. These classic search light sig... (more)

Pairs of ex-CN&W Dash 8's are keeping the T-bird service moving around Keenan. Here both sets are at Largo, as one finishes loading, and the 2nd one wait for it's turn. T-bird trains move raw iron... (more)

DMIR 181 in Missabe' arrowhead scheme waits its next assignment at Keenan Yard on the Missabe Iron Range. This yard is located just southwest of Iron Junction on a branch toward Hibbing, MN just o... (more)

DMIR 400 and IC 6259 hustle T-bird loads south on a puffy cloud filled late afternoon.

A repainted Illinois Central SD70 rolls north into Iron Junction with a long freight.

The Keenan Road Switch heads north on the far track as a T-Bird rolls through Iron Junction headed for Fairlane.

A pair of crusty Zebra Stripe widenosers bring the Keenan Switch down the DMIR with a bunch of empty coal cars.

T-Bird rolling through Iron Junction going to United Taconite.

Not too many places left to see former SP tunnel motors leading trains but chances of seeing one or two are still good on the Iron Range in northern Minnesota. The DMIR tunnel motor class unit num... (more)

A stack/manifest rumbles through Iron Junction while a loaded Minorca train rolls by on the other mainline, steaming in the cold morning air.

One of the few IC deathstar's still running pulls 140 loads through Iron Junction for Two Harbors.

Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range SD38-2 No. 204 heads a southbound taconite ore train at Iron Junction, Minnesota, on September 10, 1989.

A late evening sun highlights the B&LE 909 and DM&IR 408 as they lead a T-bird load near the end of a beautiful day on the range.

DMIR 407,401 with Northshore Mining 1211 along for the ride move through Iron Junction during the late evening.