Twenty minutes after sunrise with Canadian wildfire smoke filling the air and a little fog holding on, CN 2010 makes its way north on the CN Iron Range sub.
Coming up from Two Harbors and closing in on the Ramshaw diamond.
A small thunderstorm cools things off and gets the mosquitoes moving while CN 2007 keeps the iron ore pellets moving heading down the CN Iron Range sub just past the Ramshaw diamond.
A frosty morning as iron ore moves towards Two Harbors.
Time to get going as the engineer ramps up the speed.
CN 3309 and CN 3331 and a train made up of three different sets of passenger cars (some to Pokegama for Duluth, some for the Friends of 261 in the Twin Cities and some for Homewood) make their sou... (more)
Snow falls as DMIR 409 leads the Two Harbors yard to Keenan yard transfer.
Repainted BLE 900 leads ore empties North through Fayal.
CN 2033 leads a Northbound ID past the abandoned Thunderbird South mine area.
The local job that runs from Two Harbors to CN's Keenan yard today has three SD9043MACs in tow that were on lease to Northshore Mining's RR while they waited for their SD70ACes to arrive to be use... (more)
Burning diesel on a cold winter morning.
Obligatory train in the snow photo as the summer season begins. A trio of Dash 8s and 145 ore cars quietly move along the CN Iron Range Sub while snow falls.
In a winter wonderland comes five hundred ninety-eight axels.
A nice day and a clean Dash 8 leading empties that are heading to the mine to load.
CN 2010 leads a loaded ID South through the snow at Fayal.