It's a nice spring day and the taconite pellets are moving down the CN Iron Range sub from Minntac towards Two Harbors passing Allen Jct. along the way.
Running south along the CN Iron Range sub having just went by the N. Biwabik signals and passing a string of veteran DMIR ore cars that are staged here for the winter. CN 2041 has 145 of the much... (more)
Southbound CN 2041 splits the signals at Noimi Jct. on the Minntac sub with 116 cars of pellets and 29 empties trailing. "We emptied them of pellets on the west side".
Navigating the S-curve CN 2041 north is taking 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.