What a pair. In a fairly rare occurrence for this job, BLE 906 and BLE 909 are paired up as one set of power for the T-Bird mine shuttles moving rock from the mine to the plant. They look good in... (more)

Come for the nice selection of EMD's still operating across CN's ore roads in NE Minnesota, stay for the weather.

A pair of Dash 8's lead a loaded raw ore shuttle into the evening sun as it approaches Wolf, Minnesota and heads towards the Fairlane taconite plant. In the distance behind the train, the conducto... (more)

Cold and clear sailing back to Proctor, MN for these four EMD vets and fifty-eight limestone empties.

After a quick trackside crew change, CN 2028, with its 145 cars of steaming taconite pellets in tow, responds to the engineer's throttle commands and starts pulling for Two Harbors.

Southbound for Proctor with steaming hot taconite pellets on a cold winter afternoon.

Heading back to the mine to reload with taconite bearing rock all the while the snow falls.

A cold day in....northern Minnesota finds BLE 906 and crew coming to the end of the Minntac sub with an empty limestone train bound for Proctor yard after a few hours traveling south down the Miss... (more)

Hitting the CN Minntac sub with limestone for U.S. Steel's Minntac taconite plant.

Coming off the CN Missabe sub and onto the CN Minntac sub at Wolf pulling 54 carloads of limestone for the U.S. Steel Minntac plant.

No matter the weather, well to be honest ridiculous cold really hampers train movements but anything else CN says supply chain disruptions be damned while snow falls as this Q119 container train g... (more)

A loaded taconite train from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant makes the very rare left turn at Noimi Jct. to begin the trip north to the Canadian border then across Canada to Prine Rupert for export t... (more)

One of the first snowfalls of the season starts to cover the landscape as this empty limestone train coming from U.S. Steel's Minntac plant starts back down the CN Missabe sub for Proctor, MN.

Emerging from the fog.

Short winter days and low afternoon sun as a T-Bird heads back to the mine to reload.