An extra yard job heads down the Mission Spur with a string of grain
CN's Thunder Bay yard power heads down the Mission Spur with grain to fill the local G3 elevator. They are in the process of yarding the train at Mission Yard where Cando will take over for the fi... (more)
Why two crossovers so close together? I wonder. Photo by unknown. From my collection.
CN 5337 spots cars for dumping on top of CN dock 6 while a boat loads iron ore pellets.
Preparing to shove back loads of iron ore pellets onto CN dock 6 to fill the waiting boat. A lot will change to this scene in the coming years as the trees grow higher, the older EMDs go away and ... (more)
GTW 4616 and CN 5341 head back to Kirk Yard after working at the Port of Chicago earlier in the day.
Heading back from Two Harbors, the MRF (miscellaneous road freight) has three lease returns from Northshore Mining in tow as well as a few cars of general freight. The lease units are probably cu... (more)
CN 5349 leads U716 north at Burnett.
CN SD40-2W's 5270 + 5320 sandwich DMIR SD40-3 403 with CN's Thunder Bay yard power. The grain season has just started in the port city with CPKC & CN bringing the first grain trains in of the seas... (more)
A Canadian National SD40-2W and a trio of Dash 8's lead L594, better known as the MRF (Miscellaneous Road Freight), as it pulls into the siding at Fairbanks, Minnesota on the Iron Range Subdivisio... (more)
A classic CN EMD SD40-2W and 2 NS motors leads a G889 grain train out of the Mississippi River Valley towards Waterloo, and eventually Alden, IA.
CN leads a westbound grain train through the Skoonka Tunnels (also known as the Honeymoon Tunnels) along the Thompson River west of Spences Bridge, BC showing off its as delivered "zebra"... (more)
CN SD40-2Ws 5326 and 5357 cross over from the north to the south track at Bissell heading out to Acheson with local train L519.
CN SD40-2Ws 5321 and 5284 work the Pulldown job at the west end of CN's Walker Yard in Edmonton.
Sailing southbound on the CN Missabe sub with taconite pellets heading to Proctor yard.