Track speed in the fresh snow. A short train hustles along to service a local blasting company.

DMIR 403, still wearing the Missabe maroon, looks good in the fresh snow that fell on northern Minnesota earlier in the day. The train will load at U.S. Steel, Minntac before returning to Two Harb... (more)

Coming north up the CN Iron Range Sub from Two Harbors, IC 6260 goes by one of a very few remaining searchlight signals left along the line.

A trio of tunnelmotors bring empties back from Two Harbors and past the few remaining signals ( long out of service ) that once protected the south Evtac Thunderbird mine spur along the CN Iron Ra... (more)

A pair of BLE motors lead a Miscellaneous Road Freight (MRF) from Two Harbors, MN with a stop coming shortly at the CN Keenan yard. Todays freight includes a dead SD40-2W, some empty bentonite ho... (more)

It's smooth sailing for the crew on board U-791 south from U.S. Steel Minntac traveling to Two Harbors with 145 cars of taconite pellets on this fine summer morning.

CN 5318 rolls north passing the old searchlight signal at m.p. 68.5 along the CN Iron Range Sub as they head for U.S. Steel's Minntac plant to load the 145 ore cars with fresh made taconite pellet... (more)

The MRF heads back west from the power plant at Laskin with some empties.

What a difference a day makes. Twenty four hours earlier northern Minnesota's Iron Range was being pummeled by heavy snow and strong winds during the first snow event of the season and now the ski... (more)

The first significant snow event of the season is well underway here on Minnesota's Iron Range. Train crews are running and the railroad's support staff is helping out as much as they can to keep... (more)

BLE 906 heads to Two Harbors, MN with 142 cars of taconite pellets behind them as they cross the former Duluth Missabe and Northern Railroad (DM&N) then the Duluth Missabe and Iron Range Railroad ... (more)

Looking south on the old Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range railroad laid tracks that once served the Thunderbird South coarse crusher loadout which came online in 1976 to help feed the Fairlane pelle... (more)

A loaded ore train out of Minntac Mine hammers east near sunset. With 145 loads in tow, these 4 SD40's make quick work of the grade coming out of Ramshaw. The train is seen passing the absolute si... (more)

As the sunset nears on the Iron Range, a loaded ore train pounds 145 cars up to track speed leaving Ramshaw. Lots of old school stuff left along the old Missabe with the code line, signals, and po... (more)

Seeing 4 tunnel motors in use on a Class 1 in 2015 is something to see. Here 4 tunnels pound 145 loads out of Ramshaw with ore out of the Minorca Mine North of Virginia. This old school power stay... (more)