A pair of IC SD40-3s bracket a pair of CN C40-8s leading U714's train south at the north end of Kelsey, MN.

IC SD40-3 6260 is just south of South Fairlane leading train U714 south on the Missabe Sub towards Proctor.

U714's train shoves into the yard at Keenan to clear the mainline before a crew change.

L567's train shoves into the yard at Keenan to make a pickup.

IC SD40-3 6260 is southbound with limestone empties passing the intermediate signal at Mile 48.3 on CN's Missabe Sub.

Heading over the Ramshaw diamond, DMIR 402 and DMIR 404 have 181 cars behind them and are about to tie up traffic for a while as they come of the CN Iron Range Sub and cross Highway 7.

Loaded taconite train bound for Proctor behind three death stars hits the wide open stretch through the bog.

Mostly dumped Difco side dumps return south from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant back to Proctor. CN and Minntac use these old DM&IR lettered Difco's to deliver limestone to plant in the cold winter ... (more)

Zipping through the S curve at Culver with taconite pellets following along.

IC SD40-3 6260 is southbound between Fairlane and Kelsey leading U714's limestone empties back to Proctor.

A rolling steam bank down the Missabe sub behind BLE 900, CN 5338 and IC 6253 and pulling DMIR/Missabe ore cars loaded up at the United Taconite facility. The exhaust plume is from said facility ... (more)

The R901 job out of Keenan usually has about 5 or 6 cars when they come back and usually come back much earlier in the day but today they have 181 cars total and 7500 feet behind them with 174 san... (more)

Looking quite good, IC SD40-3 6251 is northbound on CN's Missabe Sub with loaded limestone train U715.

Along with their normal task of switching the Dyno Nobel facility outside Biwabik, today's R901 Keenan job also had the project of retrieving 174 sand empties from storage on the former Erie Minin... (more)

The last slivers of light illuminate the R901 with it's 732 total axels that are coming off the CN Iron Range Sub and heading south on the CN Missabe Sub at Iron Jct. with sand empties from storag... (more)