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)
Returning home to Keenan yard, Job R901 heads south while a regular freight heads north along the somewhat busy CN Missabe sub.
Heading to serve a local blasting company switching loads for empties.
The R901 job out of Keenan yard slices through some early morning fog along the CN Minntac sub.
The local out of CN's Keenan yard heads out of the fog along the Minntac sub while traveling up to the plant for work.
Departed Keenan yard at short time ago heading north with ex-DM&E hoppers loaded with clay in tow for the commercial yard at U.S. Steel Minntac.
After finishing up their work at the Minntac plant, the Keenan Switch job takes the rarely used switch at Noimi Jct. to head north to Virginia to pick up some cars in the former DWP yard before re... (more)
Coming into the yard at Biwabik to put some cars into storage on some unused tracks in the old yard once used for natural ore sorting and staging from area mines.
The R901 crew uses the north leg of the wye on the south end of CN's Keenan yard for headroom while switching cars around and after the switch is thrown the engineer shoves back into the yard.
Time to get going as the engineer ramps up the speed.
Having left Keenan yard and getting on the CN Iron Range sub its now off to switch loads for empties at Dyno Nobel on a nice morning.
GTW 6223 doing some switching chores on the south end of CN's Keenan Yard.
The Keenan local, R901, coming back to their namesake yard with the usual empty tanks from a blasting company they serve along the CN Iron Range sub.
The two local jobs, one from Keenan yard doing work spotting boxcars for storage and then serving a blasting company, and the other from Two Harbors bringing interchange to Keenan yard cross paths... (more)
A light snow falls as GTW 6223 leads back to Keenan yard after switching hoppers at the U.S. Steel Minntac taconite plant.
