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)

Taconite pellets steam towards Two Harbors behind CN 6018, IC 6261 and DM&IR 403 as a sucker hole of sun breaks through and illuminates the train.

A Road Run out of Biwabik shoves empty cars onto the rock track at Minntac. In the distance is part of the mine's expansive open pit iron ore operation, the largest in the United States.

The new job on the former Missabe is the Biwabik Switch. Here the crew gets ready to leave Biwabik Yard with fifty-six empties under the cover of an early morning fog. The crew will head to Minn... (more)

Special Export move by Newtonville Road, with CN 6018 in the lead. With buffer / special coupler cars inbetween, 10 export class 66 locomotivs head most likely to Halifax for shipment by boat. I... (more)