Heading for Two Harbors with iron ore loads in tow.
Cutting through the fog and snowless landscape as they travel down to Two Harbors, MN with Minntac made marbles.
Obligatory train in the snow photo as the summer season begins. A trio of Dash 8s and 145 ore cars quietly move along the CN Iron Range Sub while snow falls.
The snow is falling as an empty for the Minorca mine glides along.
Snow falling and the wind howling as a trio of dash 8s come crawling along the CN Iron Range Sub with 145 ore cars for loading.
Mountain Iron-Two Harbors train U791 slowly pulls onto the Iron Range Sub at East Wye.
U791's iron ore pellets from Minntac begin their trip down the Iron Range Sub.
Navigating the S-curve CN 2006 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.
The skies are about to open up again at any minute dropping a mixture of snow, sleet, and rain and the while the wind is howling. All this is just fine for the northbound crew on these empties as ... (more)
Following an empty ore train, CN 2006 makes it's way north with some miscellaneous road freight from Two Harbors and is heading to Keenan yard where it will be set out for another train to take it... (more)
CN 2006 taking ore loads south through Saginaw.
CN 2006 taking ore loads south.
As a light and dreary Minnesota Great Lakes rain trickles down, a southbound Canadian National intermodal on the Rainy Sub crosses over a southbound tactonite train on the Missabe Sub... Sadly the... (more)
CN C40-8 2008 rests at Proctor waiting for its next assignment.
CN 2006 plies the rails of the CN Iron Range sub heading south with Minntac taconite pellets for Two Harbors, MN.