The engineer throttles up his 4 EMD's and accelerates 145 cars of taconite pellets continuing the trip that started at the ArcelorMittal Minorca mine and will end at the yard at Two Harbors.
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.
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)
A quad set of power brings empties from Two Harbors banging across the Ramshaw diamond as they head north to load taconite pellets at the Minorca mine before returning back to Two Harbors.
The meeting place between ore and freight. The Ramshaw diamond is the crossroads between the CN Iron Range Sub and the CN Rainy Sub and it sees a lot of traffic on any given day. The IR Sub is the... (more)