Taconite loads rolling south for the yard at Two Harbors, MN

An afternoon on duty time out of Two Harbors has the crew passing thru Jones in the early evening as they make their way up to the U.S. Steel plant to load taconite pellets and a nocturnal return ... (more)

Dodging and ducking the clouds and hitting the sucker hole at the right time.

Due to congestion with train traffic ahead, CN 2116 is stopped at Sparta to wait it out before getting green signals after everything clears.

A trio of Dash 8s round the bend heading north with 145 empties for the U.S. Steel Minntac plant west loadout pocket before heading back south for home at Two Harbors.

A loaded taconite train from the Minntac plant gets a roll-by from the crew of the Keenan local job at Biwabik. The taconite pellets are headed to Two Harbors while the local will do their work a... (more)

A snowy trip for the entire 74 miles along the Iron Range Sub is coming to end as CN 2028 is about to cross Highway 7 turning north and getting on the CN Missabe Sub and then the CN Minntac Sub ar... (more)

Snow falling and the wind howling as a trio of dash 8s come crawling along the CN Iron Range Sub with 145 ore cars for loading.

Passing through some snow while the sun is shing, CN 2041 leads as they head up to the U.S. Steel Minntac plant to load taconite pellets.

Coming up from Two Harbors with one meet under their belts way back at Brimson, MN the crew were told to slow down because they were going to wait here at Gilbert for about 45 minutes until an all... (more)

Coming back north to get more marbles to take back south.

The dance between seasons as snow falls while the colors of fall hang on.

A well-timed meet as CN 2000 crew is giving the roll-by as pellet loads zip along at track speed heading down to Two Harbors.

Coming up from Two Harbors on the Iron Range sub to load at the U.S. steel Minntac plant as the sun rises over the landscape.

CN 2016 heading north passing under a tree ablaze in fall color while heading to the U.S. Steel Minntac plant for the loading of taconite pellets.