After coming up the CN Missabe sub, doing the CN Minntac sub and then going up the CN Rainy sub to Minorca Jct., WC 300 is now plowing south down the CN Rainy sub about to cross the CN Iron Range ... (more)

WC 300 throwing snow and creating a cool cloud effect in the trees as it and three IC SD40-3's roar up the Missabe sub between Keenan and Iron Jct.

WC 300 throwing snow as it and three IC SD40-3's roar around the corner at M.P. 26 on the Missabe sub.

CN decided that some snow removal was necessary along the Missabe Sub between Proctor and Shelton Jct., so WC 300 was teamed up with IC 6260, IC 6251 and IC 6252 to go out and tackle the snow. Unf... (more)

It looks calm and pleasant, but it was a cold and windy day as temps were below zero and wind gusts were howling as these loads of taconite pellets make their way down to Two Harbors, MN.

Minorca mine loaded U793 rips through the s-curve leading into N. Biwabik but will soon slow and come to a stop for a crew change at Biwabik.

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.

Loaded all rail train of taconite pellets bound for Convent, LA leaves northern Minnesota behind.

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.

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)

An all-rail loaded at United Taconite races down the CN Missabe sub in the low afternoon light of the late fall season. This train has a final destination of Convent, LA.

A nice afternoon along the Missabe.

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)