The former DW&P Depot near the end of Chestnut Street in Virginia, MN basks in the evening sun on the shore of Silver Lake. The three-story depot was built in 1913 on pilings and concrete and made... (more)

CN 8018, CN 8851 and CN 5782 idling away the night on the head end of a Herzog ballast train parked on the siding here at Virginia, MN.

CN 8018, CN 8851 and CN 5782 lead a Herzog ballast train down the CN Iron Range Sub main here at Biwabik, MN.

Now with a fresh crew on board, CN 8018 waits for traffic to pass by on the main here at S. Virginia. The Herzog ballast train will drop the rock along the CN Iron Range Sub once they get moving.... (more)

CN 3020, with a special guest second out in the form of CCGX 1508, on train M347 heading north on the CN Missabe Sub.

Wearing a unique throwback logo that really stands out, CN 3331 leads taconite loads down to Proctor yard.

That new train smell? A very fresh SD75IACC leads M357 north as it heads to the border crossing at Ranier, MN and cross into Canada.

After waiting for a northbound empty ore train to pass, CN 3319 is on the move back to the coarse crusher loadout at Untied Taconite to reload rock to take down to the plant.

A northbound empty iron ore train steps onto the Minntac Sub at Wolf coming off the Missabe sub and the Iron Range sub previously before loading at the Minntac west loadout pocket then retracing t... (more)

When these "new" AC44C6Ms took over in the CN ore pool, there was a plan to use them in a 1X1 fashion instead of the traditional way with all the power up front. Only trains that load on... (more)

CN 2263 comes around the corner and hits a sliver of early morning sunlight as it pulls 102 CN hoppers that will be put into storage on the Hinsdale branch very shortly once they come to a stop at... (more)

It's an early morning while Canadian wildfire smoke covers the area at 0630 as CN 2263 pulls 102 empty all matched CN grain cars that the crew will put into storage on the Hinsdale branch.

Pellet loads from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant glide down the Iron Range sub at Biwabik, MN.

DMIR 406 and sister DMIR 409 pull cars loaded with iron ore pellets through the yard at Biwabik, MN on the way down to Two Harbors, MN and the dock. The pellets came from the idled Minorca mine. ... (more)

The Keenan Switch crew is pulling 50 ore cars up the grade to the idled Minorca mine to spot them for loading from the pellet pile on the plant site.