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In this opulent scene harkening back to when the mammoth Missabe Yellowstones thundered across the Cloquet River on this magnificent trestle, the IC 6264 thunders southward in the third notch.
End sarcasm.
Loaded stone for Minntac wheels around the MP 26 curve behind a Deathstar sandwich. 6251 is a fan favorite from out-of-towners as it is the last one with a white frame stripe.
Burnett Falls is located only minutes from where I now live. It is a gentle hike up and only took about 12 minutes to reach. When we were walking back down, we told others who asked, it was a 45 minute treacherous hike up a mountain side. Then, after witnessing their initial surprise, we revealed the truth. This is a place to visit again in order to get a distinctly different perspective and shot
Bessemer & Lake Erie SD40T-3 No. 909 kicks up fresh snow while wheeling train U710 through the big curve at Burnett on its way to Minntac.
CN U716 rounds the bend at Burnett, Minnesota with empty ore jennies for Fairlane. At Burnett, County Road 7 meets the Missabe Sub and paces it all the way north into the Iron Range.
An air temperature of -29F doesn't stop the steaming DMIR 409 from hustling 139 ore cars for Minntac around the curve at Milepost 26 on the Missabe Sub.
With the impending doom of CN’s aging fleet of six-axle 645 powered EMDs and GE C40s on the horizon, I was invited to shoot them in action by good friend, Steven Welch. To say this trip was awesome would be an understatement. This guy’s like a railroad photography Sherpa! His ability to introduce us to so many off the beaten path, and extremely photogenic locations, was awe inspiring! I’ve always admired his photography and unique eye for ordinary locations, so to have the opportunity to shoot along side him made for a truly unforgettable trip! We shot before sunrise and well after dark for four straight days and he never let off the gas.
Thanks buddy!
CN U719 rounds the bend in Burnett, Minnesota on a late October afternoon with three B&LE tunnel motors and a train full of limestone for Minorca.
A loaded pellet train from Minntac crosses the Cloquet River in Burnett, Minnesota behind a trio of 400-series SD40-3s. The bridge over the Cloquet is actually a pair of spans, built in 1906 and 1924, the latter of which was built to accommodate the northbound main and is now the only span in active service at this location.
Canadian National L568, the daily manifest from Rainer to Proctor, rolls south on the Misabbe Sub along Highway 7 in Burnett, MN. L568 featured four EMDs this sunny summer morning as it often does.
The three remaining former Bessemer & Lake Erie tunnel motors on the iron range have been lashed together, creating the pumpkin trio. Here the 906, 904 and 909 have a loaded limestone train rolling north toward the mines through late afternoon shadows at Burnett, Minnesota - September 26, 2022.
CN 5318, a SD40u, and a C40-8 lead an empty taconite train back north to the Fairlane processing plant on the Missabe Subdivision.
Exhaust backlit by the rising morning sun spews into the northwoods as a tunnel motor trio easily muscle their ore empties around MP 26.
It's morning in Burnett as a classic pair of SD40-2Ws rolls south with train L568, the International Falls local.
A long CN freight curves along the Missabe at milepost 26 with fading evening sunlight. Two SD60s are along for the ride northwards to Ranier. This train got the light to head north on the Missabe Subdivision after a loaded taconite pellet train cleared and settled down in Proctor. I was initially set up further to the southeast, but the sun was quickly sinking and the shadows were too much to overcome. Went for this angle at Burnett instead.
Bessemer & Lake Erie SD40T-3 No. 909 and company catch the last bit of sunlight as they round the curve at MP 26 with stone loads bound for MinnTac.
IC 6261 is the leader of a trio of SD40-3s and CN U717, a train of loaded taconite, and approaches Center Line Road in Burnett, MN.
CN U718 crosses the Cloquet River in Burnett, Michigan on a 1924 steel bridge that once carried the northbound main over the river.
This is the full view of the falls I posted previously where I just shot the close up abstract of the log standing up in the falls (2 Photos ago). After some serious dodging and burning and a 4 shot HDR merge, I have gotten it to an acceptable level and figured I would post it so you can see the full falls. Kris. Video link below!