Coming over from their yard at Kelly Lake, BNSF takes the old searchlight signal for CN's Keenan yard as they proceed on the once a week trip up to the Minorca taconite plant with bentonite loads.
A warm for December day has created quite the thick blanket of fog as BNSF 3136 crosses a quiet highway with no crossing gates along the CN Keenan Sub heading for the Minorca mine with bentonite c... (more)
The once-a-week Kelly Lake local and their standard train consisting of 5 cars of bentonite clay heading east on the CN Keenan sub using trackage rights to serve the Minorca mine north of Virginia... (more)
On the return trip back to the home base of Kelly Lake, BNSF 2957 dims the ditch lights to meet a northbound CN freight on the double track section of the CN Missabe sub.
Heading back to their namesake yard, the Kelly Lake local knocks the snow off while rumbling across the large steel Missabe era trestle along the CN Keenan sub with 6 cars in tow after serving the... (more)