As the thick cloud cover clears away, DMIR 400, DMIR 406 and DMIR 409 call to depart Minntac for Two Harbors with favorable signals for the start of the journey they drop down the hill at m.p. 5 o... (more)
It's a cold morning hauling hot taconite pellets as IC 6254 emerges from the shadows heading south for Proctor, MN.
The clouds cleared just in time as three DMIR SD40-3's and 145 Missabe ore cars loaded with taconite pellets roar by at track speed.
After switching the Minntac commercial yard, it's back to Keenan yard for the R901 crew and these empty bentonite hoppers.
Heading back to their yard after picking up rock loads from Laurentian Aggregates.
Having to pause here at Allen Jct. for a meet, the signals are now green and it's back on the throttle towards Two Harbors, MN.
Hot marbles heading south on a frosty morning.
A CN freight rolls south through the woods.
Loads south meeting empties north on the curve at Biwabik with a fall color backdrop.
A trio of Dash 8's with one hundred forty-five loads of marbles destined for Two Harbors roll through peak fall color.
It was a nice peaceful wait for the train to cross over the river.
On the way up to the Minorca mine with limestone loads as the first significant snowfall of the season is happening.
After delivering limestone to the Minntac plant that turns into a backhaul of blast furnace trim with CN 2004 leading the way south to Proctor, MN.
An SD60 leading a colorful train of boxcars down from Ranier, MN with a stop and Keenan yard and a destination of Proctor, MN.
Coming back north to get more marbles to take back south.
