DMIR 404 and crew hustle ore loads from U.S. Steel, Minntac along the CN Iron Range Sub at Ramshaw on a great summer morning heading for the docks at Two Harbors, MN.

After meeting an empty train headed for Minntac from Two Harbors, the engineer throttles up DMIR 408 and they begin to pull 144 loaded ore cars from Minntac through Allen Jct. on the journey back ... (more)

Idled for part of the summer, U.S Steel Minntac is now back to full strength and pumping out taconite pellets by the train load. IC 6260 leads 144 cars of fresh made pellets down the hill from th... (more)

Taconite pellets from U.S. Steel's Minntac plant are being hustled through the very small community of Skibo, MN along the CN Iron Range Sub on a great summer morning led by CN 5337 on the way to ... (more)

Taconite pellets from U.S. Steel's Minntac plant are sailing down the CN Iron Range Sub on a great summer morning led by CN 5337. The pellets will be brought to Fairbanks, MN for a crew change an... (more)

Code line and taconite pellets. DMIR 404 leads a EMD quartet and 144 cars of taconite pellets out of Iron Jct. and onto the CN Iron Range Sub heading for Two Harbors, MN with their product made ... (more)

On this day in 1893, at approximately 5:19 p.m., for the first time a load of iron ore mined from the Merritt’s Iron Mountain Mine along the Mesabi Iron Range arrived in Duluth with ten cars pul... (more)

DMIR 405 leads 135 cars of steaming taconite pellets down the hill from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant ( some of which can be seen in the upper right) on the CN Minntac Sub and towards Two Harbors i... (more)

The snow from the morning storm is tapering off now as DM&IR 406 leads 135 loads down the hill from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant in Mountain Iron, MN for the docks in Two Harbors, MN.

An east side loader is fresh out of U.S. Steel Minntac with 137 loads of taconite pellets going past the IRRRB mineland reclaimation project at Mott Pit in Mountain Iron. Named for Fred R. Mott, ... (more)

Friday the 13th and everything looks like it should with blue skies and steaming taconite pellets coming off the hill from U.S. Steel Minntac rolling south for Two Harbors.

It's a cold, early morning as an empty 135 car train rounds the curve and enters Biwabik while on the way north to the U.S. Steel Minntac in Mountain Iron where they will load taconite pellets and... (more)

Loads from U.S. Steel Minntac make their way off the Missabe Subdivision and onto the Iron Range Subdivision at Iron Jct. for the trip to Two Harbors, MN.

It's a cold early morning made evident by the minus 10 degrees reading from the nearby detector and the taconite pellets are steaming an hour into the journey towards Two Harbors.

Sticking out like a sore thumb, the B&LE 904 rolls along surrounded by the frosty white landscape of northern Minnesota while they continue on their journey towards Two Harbors with another instal... (more)