Two tunnel motors bookend a SD40 on Minntac empties on a fine Winter afternoon on the ole DMIR.
Minntac empties pound the diamond at Ramshaw, heading for another load of taconite in the endless parade of trains on the old Missabe.
IC 6251 is about to pound the diamond with the DWP at Ramshaw with 140 loads for Two Harbors.
One of CN's core trains heads down the Rainy Sub towards Duluth in late afternoon sun.
A CN core train pops out of the north woods on its way down the Rainy Sub towards Duluth. The train consisted of four units, two of which were mid train DPU.
An empty from Two Harbors takes the diamond at Ramshaw on their way to Minntac.
One of CN's core trains heads down the Rainy Sub towards Duluth. The train consisted of four units, two of which were mid train DPU.
Heading into the sun at Ramshaw.
The one train of the day in full sun was the one that counted: a pair of DMIR SD45T-2's thunder west toward Iron Jct.
DMIR 203+317 ; Manifest to Two Harbours; Minolta maxxum 7 + Fuji P100F
One of only a handful of ex-DM&IR painted locomotives now in the CN colors (as of this date) leads a taconite empty into Iron Jct.
A Northbound CN Maifest hammers over the DMIR diamond at Ramshaw, MN
Eastbound Minntac loads east of Ramshaw at 9:44 AM.
