L571 heads North on the CN Dearborn Sub crossing the Conrail Shared Assets at Penford Jct. This is the old DT&I crossing the Pennsylvania RR. One of the Edison Arches can be seen on the south side... (more)

CN 6018 leads CN L571 from Flat Rock to Dearborn Michigan under the old DT&I Arches at Eureka Rd in Taylor MI.

Led by an SD40-2Q, Canadian National's U791 rounds the bend as it rolls through Iron Junction, Minnesota and past a DMIR searchlight signal that guards the junction. With a load of taconite pellet... (more)

CN 6018 leads CN L571 from Flat Rock to Dearborn Michigan under the old DT&I Arches in Allen Park Michigan.

A pair of Canadian National SD40-2Q's work the unloader at Two Harbors, Minnesota, pulling a cut of loaded ore cars through the shed. The unloaded taconite ore pellets are fed to a conveyor belt w... (more)

Every year I take campers from my church to Camp House, near Brimson, MN. It's a former Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range camp that was created for the families of railroad employees. It eventually was... (more)

With another load of taconite pellets, CN U791 heads towards Two Harbors behind two EMD's and a GE, passing by a DMIR searchlight signal at Spruce.

The Proctor Road Switch crew shoves their train out onto the CN dock 6 for dumping. In the foreground of the docks is Wade Stadium. The stadium was built in 1941 and holds 4,200 people and is th... (more)

CN 6018's crew in conjunction with the dock crew are about at the half way point of dumping their train of taconite pellets. Across the bay, BNSF is doing the same thing but with coal at the MER... (more)

CN 6018 begins to shove 145 ore cars loaded with taconite pellets onto the CN dock 6 for dumping.

It would seem that a car on L594's train has sprung a leak! Nevertheless, CN SD40u 6018 and BLE SD40T-3s 901 and 907 have their short train up to track speed heading south on CN's Iron Range Sub.

CN L506 is tied down at MP 429 on the Minneapolis Sub with an SD40u (SD40-2Q) and a C44-9WL. CN 6018 was picked up by this train at Northtown about a week earlier after it underwent an overhaul at... (more)

A northbound U788 from Two Harbors, MN to U.S. Steel's Minntac plant at Mountain Iron rolls along the CN Iron Range Sub near Gilbert on a nice mid-summer afternoon.

A trio of light units roll past the first ship of the season, the Cason J. Callaway (also owned by CN). The piles of ore are high and ice will likely hamper the start of this shipping season.

A Roadswitch job spots ore cars on the top of Dock 6 while the large 1000-footer Edgar B. Speer is in position to load (the ship is also owned by CN through its purchase of Great Lakes Transportat... (more)