After a crew change, CN 2041 is underway again towards Two Harbors, MN on a nice spring day.

Pounding along the Missabe Sub in the snow pulling ore cars.

After building their train in the yard at Keenan, CN 2025 starts the trip to Rainier, MN with heavy snow falling.

Pellet loads crossing over the Whiteface river bridge at Kelsey, MN while slowing for meet in a few hundred yards with a northbound CN container train waiting on them.

A humming and a rumbling down the Missabe sub back to Proctor, MN with limestone empties.

Gliding along the NSM mainline is two somewhat still new to them engines in the form of ex-CSX SD70ACe and one lease unit PRLX 2643, which is an ex-NS SD70M pulling the loads from the mine to the ... (more)

Giving a roll-by to a passing taconite train with a little steam cleaning thrown in for good measure.

Snow is falling as an early spring weather event is happening across northern Minnesota while DMIR 404 and DMIR 408 have everything under control as they storm north up the CN Missabe sub at Iron ... (more)

CN 5337 continues on to Proctor, MN after meeting a NB oil train here at Alborn, MN.

The last little bit of snow hangs on as a trio of -8's lead a taconite train along the CN Missabe sub. In a couple hundred yards they will take a left turn onto the CN Iron Range sub for Two Harb... (more)

Pushing on the rear of a unit train heading north on the CN Missabe sub. Always nice to see a foreign visitor in the midst of CN country.

A trio of -8's lead a mostly empty limestone train back to Proctor, MN on a cold and very windy day.

Not much in the scenery dept. as brown stick season prevails after the winter snow melt but before the green-up of spring. The sun is shining and the trains are running though like this taconite t... (more)

A cold in hell is a common phrase used to describe a rare occurrence or event and since it was bone chilling cold on this day with a air temp of -20 and a wind chill reading making it feel much co... (more)

Snow is falling as Minorca taconite pellets run south on the CN Iron Range sub bound for Two harbors, MN.