DMIR 406 leads an empty limestone train southbound through Forbes Minnesota on a beautiful fall day out on the Iron Range of Minnesota.

I see some IC at United taconite as IC 6264 pulls 140 loads of taconite pellets out of the yard and head down the CN Missabe sub while IC 6252 in charge of empties to head back to the mine to load... (more)

Limestone loads from Proctor head up the CN Missabe for USS Minntac led by BNSF 9247 which is being used paying horsepower back to CN.

BNSF locomotives working on CN for horsepower payback handle an ore train at United Taconite while the plant's contract switcher moves a car.

CN is temporarily receiving a number of Union Pacific and BNSF locomotives for horsepower payback and two of those BNSF units have found their way to northern Minnesota to be used for the T-Bird s... (more)

CN has assigned a number of horsepower payback BNSF and UP AC units to northeastern Minnesota on the former DM&IR. Here two BNSF units power a crude (unprocessed) ore train dumping at the Fairlane... (more)

After waiting for a pellet train to depart and now having favorable signals themselves, IC 6252 with 118 X 2 departs the Fairlane plant and heads back to the mine at Thunderbird north to load more... (more)

A 138 car string of veteran DMIR ore cars led by a trio of SD40-3's pull off the yard track at United Taconite and make the south turn on the CN Missabe Sub headed back to Proctor, MN while IC 625... (more)

IC 6264 gets the green signal to head back to Proctor, MN with taconite pellets as IC 6252 will wait for them to clear before heading back to the mine to load more rock.

Always nice to see trains being led by DMIR engines pulling DMIR ore cars on the Missabe Sub in NE Minnesota. Never mind the CN paint or the trailing Dash 8, that SD40-3 still sounded good as it ... (more)

A trio of EMD's and 138 veteran DMIR ore jennies make their way south on the CN Missabe Sub with pellet loads from U.S. Steel Minntac to the yard at Proctor, MN.

A nice matched set of tunnel motor bodies ease a loaded ore train toward the Fairlane processing plant near Forbes, Minnesota on the former DM&IR. Finding a matched set like this is fairly hard (D... (more)

A loaded taconite train is getting ready to depart the United Taconite Fairlane Plant and head south toward Proctor. Shortly afterwards an empty T-bird will head back north toward the Thunderbird... (more)

Canadian National 3821 races north through Forbes on a warm summer evening.

A southbound T-Bird train crosses over the fast flowing St. Louis river as they near the Fairlane plant with taconite rock. The detector indicated 25 degrees which explains the ice beginning to fo... (more)