The Keenan switch job had the rare task today of picking up 6 loads and a switch engine from the idled Mesabi Nugget plant. Steel Dynamics, the parent company of Mesabi Nugget and Mining Resourc... (more)

After knifing the diamond at Ramshaw, the evening Keenan Switch power hustles off light towards Hinsdale to get their train finding one last patch of sun.

OK, they're not painted in Maroon, but just when you thought the current power situation on the former DMIR couldn't get any cooler, these things show up! CN GP40-2L(W)s 9544 and 9433 prepare to h... (more)

The 0600 Keenan Switch heads home with 14 clay cars.

The 0600 Keenan Switch returns home with a few cars behind a nice pair of wide-cab GP40-2s.

The MRF heads back towards Keenan with 4 propane empties and a buffer

The Keenan Switch returns to its namesake with empty bentonite hoppers from Minntac.

A northbound core train passes by the Keenan Switch.

Snow falls as a healthy consist leads the MRF south towards Proctor (only two units on-line, the rest headed to Proctor for balance of power or repairs/inspections). Leading the train was CN GP40-... (more)

An impressive collection of power on the head-end of the L594 as it rolls over the Whiteface river at Kelsey, MN on it's way to Proctor from the Iron Range. Leading the train was CN GP40-2W 9544 f... (more)

An impressive collection of power on the head-end of the L594 as it rolls through a curve at Culver, MN on it's way to Proctor from the Iron Range. Leading the train was CN GP40-2W 9544 followed b... (more)

The Missabe local heads south in light snow with an amazing 11 units on the point. One half of the husband-wife snowman couple seemed impressed by the consist as well. Leading the train was CN GP4... (more)

CN 9544 and GTW GP38-2 4915 shuffle cars around Hawthorne preparing M337 and M393's trains.

This CN train will leave Taylor for Wisconsin Rapids around 1:00pm.