A CN crude ore train using two BNSF horsepower payback units pulls 118 cars south towards the Fairlane plant and meets it's empty counterpart with two CN Dash 8's heading back to the mine at the h... (more)

Coming up from Two Harbors with a few cars of miscellaneous road freight to drop off at CN Keenan yard and then IC 6264 will return back to Two Harbors with a few cars it will pick up.

After delivery limestone to US Steel Minntac, CN 2948 heads back down the CN Missabe Sub for Proctor, MN.

BNSF 6320 waits for a green light from the mine control room before shoving under the coarse crusher to load.

A CN crude ore train using two BNSF horsepower payback units pulls 118 cars south towards the Fairlane plant on a nice spring afternoon.

A BNSF All-Rail taconite train heads south on the CN Missabe Sub with a CN crew in charge heading for Keenan yard after loading at USS Minntac. Once at Keenan a BNSF crew will take over and head ... (more)

Limestone loads from Proctor head up the CN Missabe for USS Minntac led by BNSF 9247 which is being used paying horsepower back to CN.

Power for the switching duties at the mostly quiet Blandin Paper Mill sits tucked inside a somewhat secure fenced area on mill property.

Rarely seen in these parts, CN GP38-2W 4791 runs south down the CN Iron Range Sub for Two Harbors with CN's TEST cars in tow.

A few more feet into the yard and the CN crew will park their train and be done for the day after spending most of shift loading and weighing 130 cars of taconite pellets at the USS Minntac plant.... (more)

Descending from the USS Minntac plant with 130 loads of pellets the CN crew is heading for CN Keenan yard with this BNSF all-rail train that is going to a final destination at Granite City Works b... (more)

A BNSF All-Rail UALLKES0-01T cruises through Wilpen heading to Keenan yard where a CN crew will take it to load 130 cars at USS Minntac then return it back to Keenan where a BNSF crew will re-take... (more)

CN 2032 north passes through the small location/community of Sparta, MN. At one time there was a four track yard here with several branches off the main to serve natural ore pits in the area. To... (more)

CN is temporarily receiving a number of Union Pacific and BNSF locomotives for horsepower payback and two of those BNSF units have found their way to northern Minnesota to be used for the T-Bird s... (more)

CN is temporarily receiving a number of Union Pacific and BNSF locomotives for horsepower payback and two of those BNSF units have found their way to northern Minnesota to be used for limestone tr... (more)