The snowless winter. DMIR 404 leads back to Proctor after dumping limestone at the U.S. Steel Minntac plant. CN uses these DMIR Difco side dumps in cold weather months to help the dumping of produ... (more)

The CN Missabe sub has mostly northbound freight headed for Canada and southbound moves from the mines to Proctor yard.

A light fog still hangs in the early morning air as the sun catches the nose of L568 rounding the curve.

Heading south for Two Harbors, MN as the last light of the day casts an orange glow on the western horizon.

Shoving back into Keenan yard after making a run to Dyno Nobel to switch loads for empties.

With sunset coming ever closer, a couple of EMDs pulling 94 cars of ore now has a fresh crew on board and away they go.

With one of its longest trains in a while, IC 6264 is pulling into CN's Keenan Yard with 7k feet of train trailing behind. Generally, this train brings up a few tank cars, a few loaded centerbeam... (more)

Iron ore pellets head south for Proctor yard while freight heads north for Canada seen here along the CN Missabe sub on a nice spring afternoon.

Iron ore pellets head south for Proctor yard on a nice spring afternoon.

Iron bearing rock passes through Iron Jct. as they head down to United Taconite's processing plant from the mine.

BLE 900 heads south on the CN Missabe sub with taconite pellets for Proctor while a freight heads north for Canada.

One of CN's Jordan spreaders, CN 50936, and three IC SD40-3s head back to Keenan yard after a few hours of work on the Keenan Sub learning the newly rebuilt M.O.W. equipment.

Heading south on the CN Iron Range Sub doing a little plowing on a cold morning.

Taking the west wye at Iron Jct. heading to Two Harbors, MN from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant.

CN 3331, with its throwback circle logo as a nod to the Canadian Northern, leads steaming iron ore pellets south on the Missabe sub heading for Proctor yard.