The daily Proctor yard to Ranier, MN freight heads north in the early morning light.
CPKC G95 approaching the island of Montreal on Saturday morning with gons and hoppers from Delson.
CN 324 is heading to Vermont with CN 5778, CN 2309 and 55 cars.
Empty ethanol train B77419 heads past the "wall" on the Magnolia cutoff along the Potomac River with CN leaders.
Empty ethanol train B77419 heads west at the confluence of the Potomac River's two branches with a CN leader. About 7 trains went through this area in a little over an hour and this train was bri... (more)
A trio of Dash 8s and 145 ore cars loaded with still steaming iron ore pellets quietly glide along the CN Iron Range sub at m.p. 65 heading for Two Harbors, MN on another Canadian wildfire smoke c... (more)
A trio of BLEs navigate the crossover switches at Iron Jct. going from main 1 over to main 2 as they head back to Proctor with iron ore pellets from Minntac.
CN B730 with 205 potash loads as it prepares to tie down on the Freight Track. It will be refueled and will not leave Montreal until about eighteen hours later.
CN B730 has 205 potash loads as it heads east with four GEs spread throughout the train.
Early morning run from Proctor yard to deliver limestone to the Minorca mine using a cut of CN's newest ore cars.
Navigating the S-curve, CN 2007 north is making the turn on what was the former DM&N, then DM&IR and now the CN Iron Range Sub passing by the grade of the former D&IR which was abandoned in 1972.
Why two crossovers so close together? I wonder. Photo by unknown. From my collection.
Running southbound on BN. Photo by Mike Dolenski. From my collection.
A pre-dawn before the sun comes up run down the CN Missabe sub heading for Proctor yard.
A trio of BLEs with 139 ore cars loaded with pellets departs the Minntac mine property for the run back to Proctor, MN.
