Coming up from Two Harbors and closing in on the Ramshaw diamond.
A half hour out of Minntac and through the S-curve on the Missabe sub bound for Two Harbors yard.
Heading for Two Harbors with iron ore loads in tow.
Providence and Worcester FPCH trundles over Astoria with empty stone cars bound for Connecticut. The train runs from Fresh Pond Yard in Queens to Cedar Hill Yard in Connecticut bringing back empty... (more)
The show must go on as two iron ore trains meet at Biwabik while the aurora borealis light up the night sky.
A small thunderstorm cools things off and gets the mosquitoes moving while CN 2007 keeps the iron ore pellets moving heading down the CN Iron Range sub just past the Ramshaw diamond.
A trio of Dash 8s and 145 ore cars loaded with still steaming iron ore pellets quietly glide along the CN Iron Range sub at m.p. 65 heading for Two Harbors, MN on another Canadian wildfire smoke c... (more)
Navigating the S-curve, CN 2007 north is making the turn on what was the former DM&N, then DM&IR and now the CN Iron Range Sub passing by the grade of the former D&IR which was abandoned in 1972.
The rain finally let up for a bit as we catch the northbound empties CSX V319-19 heading north through Wildwood on the CSX Chattanooga Sub. During that time the C40-8 class were on borrow times as... (more)
CN 2000 leads an empty U788 going through Aurora Minnesota on the Iron Range Sub.
BNSF 8604 leads into Cicero Yard off the Indiana Harbor Belt.
CN 2025 barking upgrade through Allen Jct. on the way to the yard and dock facilities at Two Harbors.
Easy on Sunday morning as iron ore pellets head for Two Harbors.
"Daylight CHFP, But in Reverse"
On the afternoon of May 5, 2024, Providence & Worcester GE C40-8 #4050 trails at the end of what appears to be a daylight "CHFP" st... (more)
A nice afternoon as CN 2020 heads north to load iron ore.
