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)