A pair of CN GP40-2W's bring a local south through Iron Junction

CN C40-8 2004 leads ore empties North into Iron Junction. The days of these former CNW GEs up here are numbered,

With a short brake in the clouds, we catch Duluth Missabe and Iron Range, DM&IR SD40-3 414 - 412, with a load of taconite heading to Two Harbors docks about to enter Iron Juction, Minnesota. Septe... (more)

DM&IR SD38AC 206 and SD38-2 211 with a loaded T-bird at Iron Junction, Minnesota. September 30, 2006. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Loads out of Minntac are back on the Two Harbors Sub for the 70 or so miles back to their destination at Two Harbors. The train pokes around the Iron Jct Wye at 10 mph, before getting back up to s... (more)

BLE 909 rolls an empty limestone train south between Iron Jct. & Keenan Jct. passing under highway 37. BLE 909 was built as an SD45T-2 in February 1973 as SSW 6890. BLE was acquired by the CN and ... (more)

CN 5349 leads an empty taconite train around the bend at Iron Junction.

A trio of C40-8's lead empty Canadian National ore train U792 from Two Harbors as it approaches Iron Junction, Minnesota. This train will take the north leg of the wye to get on to the Missabe ... (more)

A pair of CN Dash 8's lead empty raw ore shuttle U730 as it heads north approaching Iron Junction, Minnesota where it will head to the Thunderbird Mine for another load. The train has just passed ... (more)

With a Bessemer & Lake Erie tunnel motor and a CN Anniversary Dash 8 on the point, CN U731 rounds the bend as it rolls through Iron Junction, Minnesota and heads towards the Fairlane Taconite Plan... (more)

Led by Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range EMD SD18 No. 185, a Missabe taconite ore train rolls southbound toward the docks on Lake Superior just south of Iron Junction, Minnesota, on September 21, 1991.

Heading south along the CN Iron Range about to fly over the Ramshaw diamond with steaming taconite pellets bound for Two Harbors.

B&LE tunnel motor 906 leads the Two Harbors MRF South through Iron Junction.

A unit grain train is seen headed North through Iron Junction. Canadian National routes their Northbound "core" trains over the Missabe Subdivision sharing the rail with the ore an limes... (more)

A loaded Thunderbird mine shuttle is seen heading to the Fairlane plant at Iron Junction. The shuttles operate on a four-hour cycle, bringing raw ore from the mine at Thunderbird in Virginia to th... (more)