A CN northbound stack train only adds to the peak fall color as they travel up the CN Missabe Sub about to turn left onto the CN Rainy Sub for the run to the Canadian border crossing at Rainier, M... (more)

CN 2010 passes one of the newly activated signals they have installed along the CN Iron Range Sub for CTC.

An empty oil train is headed north between Mt Iron Jct and DWP Jct on the CN Missabe Sub with 3 UP engines in charge of a train consisting entirely of new cars having only been built 2-3 months ag... (more)

CN 2131 makes it's way through DWP Jct. then up to Shelton Jct. onto the CN Rainy sub before taking a right turn at T-Bird Jct. up to Largo before backing under United Taconite's coarse crusher to... (more)

Two Bessemer tunnel motors lead the MRF by the searchlights at Fayal.

Built in 1961, dismantled in 2019. Bridge no. 9482 was built to carry millions of tons of natural iron ore from mine pits near Eveleth, MN and included Fayal 1, 2 and 3, Cloquet Annex, Pearsall, ... (more)

After climbing up and over the Laurentian Divide (seen on the horizon) a string of new oil cans led by a relatively new ET44AC continue traveling south down the CN Rainy sub.

Almost 2 miles of colorful containers stretching back from Shelton Jct. thru DWP Jct. to Mtn. Iron Jct. on the CN Missabe Sub this northbound is about to turn onto the CN Rainy Sub for the run up ... (more)

The U792 for Minorca comes through DWP Jct. and will make the left turn at Shelton Jct. for the short trip up the Rainy sub (somewhat visible below the train) to Minorca Jct. and then the mine pro... (more)

A little color is left in northern Minnesota as things change. The leaves are hanging on despite the recent snow and the BLE orange is hanging on despite the addition of C40-8's and AC power ente... (more)

CN SD70M-2 8914 leads a loaded crude oil train south on the Rainy Sub.

Winnipeg-Memphis train M342 heads south on CN's Rainy Subdivision.

After departing the Minorca mine north of Virginia, MN, 145 loads of taconite pellets are still steaming in the cold Minnesota winter air as they travel along towards the dock at Two Harbors, MN.

Two workers give NPR 1761 a good workout running it back and forth along this section of track prior to it being moved off site, having been replaced by another GP9, MRL 115 which will now take ov... (more)

A pair of GP9's that used to be the former Montana Rail Link #115 (now lettered NSHX #115) and former UP #224 (now lettered NPR 1761) sitting quietly at a rock crushing operation on United Taconit... (more)