A trio of standard cab Dash 8's are moving right along as they take control of a train of steaming pellets bound for Two Harbors. The standard cab Dash 8 era on the Iron Range ended not long after... (more)

Pulling through the yard at Biwabik, MN these taconite pellets are heading for the shore of Lake Superior at Two Harbors, MN.

Swinging around the corner off the old DM&N grade and onto the former grade of the D&IR, U791 hits N. Biwabik on the modern-day CN Iron Range sub heading for Two Harbors at 1700 hrs. on a cold win... (more)

The U791 is stopped at m.p. 59 on the CN Iron Range sub as U788 approaches on the siding which will stop briefly to allow a student engineer to get off then climb on the southbound loads for the t... (more)

Breaking trail and taking the siding at Biwabik for a meet with taconite loads already waiting on the main.

The Keenan Local chugs along the main at Biwabik, MN as they head to Dyno Nobel to switch loads for empties.

Summer is past. The leaves are down. And the Dash 8's on the Iron Range of NE Minnesota have come to the end of their era as well.

Southbound ore loads at Biwabik going to Two Harbors, MN and the dock facilities.

All the stored boxcars filling the yard here at Biwabik harken back to the days when this yard had even more tracks with more activity, and it was filled with cars loaded and heaped with natural o... (more)

CN 3334 leads the way onto the siding at Biwabik, MN to meet loads that are waiting to head south on the main after they clear the switch at S. Biwabik. This train, that loads at Minntac's east lo... (more)

A southbound pellet train loaded from Minntac's west pocket meets an empty pellet train heading to Minntac's east pocket to load. The sb has the two engines up front while the nb had a 1x1 setup ... (more)

Heading to serve a local blasting company switching loads for empties.

With the northbound empties clear of the signal at S. Biwabik and streaking past getting the roll-by, the engineer flips the lights on while he waits for the green to appear for them to proceed so... (more)

Well, this is the last set of Dash 8s working out of the CN Two Harbors ore pool. CN 2027, 2031 and CN 2032 will have the honor for a few more days anyway as they are slated to be "retired&qu... (more)

The takeover of the AC44C6Ms into the CN Two Harbors ore pool to replace the Dash 8s (ex-CNW) began with these two.