After climbing up and over the Laurentian Divide (seen on the horizon) a string of new oil cans led by a relatively new ET44AC continue traveling south down the CN Rainy sub.

Almost 2 miles of colorful containers stretching back from Shelton Jct. thru DWP Jct. to Mtn. Iron Jct. on the CN Missabe Sub this northbound is about to turn onto the CN Rainy Sub for the run up ... (more)

The lead unit of a loaded Herzog ballast train rumbles and rattles the steel bridge over the St. Louis river as they head north on the CN Missabe sub.

After suffering mechanical failure to their second unit a few days prior, the Keenan Switch job is running with a solo unit as they head up to spot this colorful group of trailing cars for loading... (more)

Southbound taconite rock loads from the mine heading to the processing plant meet a loaded ballast train heading north while both rattle the steel bridge over the St. Louis river on the CN Missabe... (more)

Some overnight snow still lingers on the ground at Biwabik as a pellet train from U.S. Steel Minntac glides thru passing a string of boxcars in storage and some M.O.W. workers getting ready to hea... (more)

On a page taken, but altered slightly, from the U.S. Postal Service playbook that states "Neither snow, nor rain, nor gloom of night, stays this crew from the swift completion of their appoin... (more)

The split second CN 2014 north knocks down the signal at Noimi Jct. as the run to U.S. Steel Minntac continues.

A trio of GE's lead 139 cars of taconite pellets through the yard at Biwabik on their way to the dock at Two Harbors, MN.

All is quiet along the CN Minntac Sub at Noimi Jct.

After delivering it's cargo of limestone to the U.S. Steel Minntac taconite plant, the empty leaves the property and heads back to the yard at Proctor.

The U792 for Minorca comes through DWP Jct. and will make the left turn at Shelton Jct. for the short trip up the Rainy sub (somewhat visible below the train) to Minorca Jct. and then the mine pro... (more)

DMIR 402, DMIR 404 and IC 6252 pull 130 loads of taconite pellets leaving the U.S. Steel Minntac property via the CN Minntac sub heading south for the CN Missabe sub that will take them on a sever... (more)

A quiet evening at Duluth's Rices Point. A GP 38-2 idles in CP's yard while the BBC Mississippi unloads it's cargo of windmill towers.

After serving the U.S. Steel Minntac plant by pulling empties and dropping off loads of bentonite, the next stop for the Keenan switch is the small yard at Mountain Iron where they shove back and ... (more)