A trio of Dash 8s and 145 ore cars loaded with still steaming iron ore pellets quietly glide along the CN Iron Range sub at m.p. 65 heading for Two Harbors, MN on another Canadian wildfire smoke c... (more)

A trio of BLEs navigate the crossover switches at Iron Jct. going from main 1 over to main 2 as they head back to Proctor with iron ore pellets from Minntac.

CN B730 with 205 potash loads as it prepares to tie down on the Freight Track. It will be refueled and will not leave Montreal until about eighteen hours later.

CN B730 has 205 potash loads as it heads east with four GEs spread throughout the train.

Early morning run from Proctor yard to deliver limestone to the Minorca mine using a cut of CN's newest ore cars.

Navigating the S-curve, CN 2007 north is making the turn on what was the former DM&N, then DM&IR and now the CN Iron Range Sub passing by the grade of the former D&IR which was abandoned in 1972.

Why two crossovers so close together? I wonder. Photo by unknown. From my collection.

Running southbound on BN. Photo by Mike Dolenski. From my collection.

A pre-dawn before the sun comes up run down the CN Missabe sub heading for Proctor yard.

A trio of BLEs with 139 ore cars loaded with pellets departs the Minntac mine property for the run back to Proctor, MN.

Running up the CN Rainy Sub for Ranier, MN.

Tiny boards. CN 323 is returning from Vermont light power. Leader CN 3940 has unusually tiny numbeboards.

CN ES44AC's 2921 + 2822 haul freight from Symington Yard in Manitoba to MacMillan Yard in Ontario east along the Caramat Subdivision passing Caramat Lake at Caramat, Ontario!

CN operates 205 car, 30000 ton Canpotex export potash trains between the mines in Saskatchewan and Saint John, New Brunswick several times a week a distance of well over 2200 miles! This one loade... (more)

Vancouver Thornton, BC to Brampton Intermodal, ON stacks head east across the Caramat Sub