Miami Canal is one of the more popular photo locations along this route, but most traffic now goes around on company-owned bypass rails. This portion remains part of the FEC-owned K-Branch.
A quad EMD set, and ore cars loaded up with iron ore pellets, humming along.
Catching some of the last rays of sun, DMIR 406 begins to slow down for the left turn into the United Taconite plant with loads from the mine.
CN 2006 escaped the Two Harbors pool and is southbound on the approach to Proctor Yard with empty limestone. BLE 904 and IC 6253 follow.
Amid the urban sprawl that NC is becoming, and in a horrible traffic jam we found a nice field and a southbound freight, bound for Fayetteville in the late afternoon sun.
FPT has come back from dropping at the mill and will take these cars and put them in the wye instead of the siding because there is active steam this weekend. Cane 4 is creeping up behind them as... (more)
