An empty T-Bird train leaves the Cliffs Natural Resources owned United Taconite plant rounding the bend onto the CN Missabe Sub for the 10 mile trip north back to the mine for more rock.

A close call and a case where the story is better than the photo. Under pending darkness and with light snow falling the crew onboard CN 5244 sounds the bell and then lays on the horn for the roa... (more)

Having just left Keenan yard, BLE 902 and crew sit basking in the suns rays at N. Fairlane waiting on a CN land barge that's coming up the CN Missabe Sub. Once it clears its back underway for Pro... (more)

A heavy Winnipeg Symington, MB - BRC Chicago Clearing, IL 346 picks up speed rolling down the Rainy Sub

The many different angles of rail grinding operations can be seen as the fresh steel rusts due to inactivity and the spilled taconite pellets that will probably never become new steel.

DMIR SD40T-3 400 leads a steamy train of ore loads south on the Missabe Sub between South Keenan and North Fairlane.

CN C40-8s 2111, 2107 and 2119 haul 59 empty limestone cars through Fairlane on CN's Missabe Sub.

Anniversary C40-8 leaving UTAC.

DMIR 403 leads cars of taconite rock towards the United Taconite Fairlane plant in Forbes, MN nearly completing the 10 mile trip from the mine near Eveleth, MN. The plant, once owned by the Ford ... (more)

A full moon illuminates a pair of classic searchlight signals and a more modern crossing gate at Forbes along the CN Missabe Sub.

The old searchlight signals at Forbes working to protect train traffic on the CN Missabe Sub main 1 and 2 respectively. Both a northbound and a southbound are currently lined for movement while a... (more)

Damaged in a derailment at Fairbanks, Minnesota in early 2014, CN 6013 was repaired and placed back into ore service. Here it leads a loaded ore train from Minntac past a switch crew that is nursi... (more)

DM&IR ore car 40822 was one of 500 in class U-23 delivered during 1948 from Pullman Standard, five years before the Missabe purchased its first diesels. Still in service for CN, the car still reta... (more)

Loads of raw ore from the T-bird mine make the turn off the north leg at Fairlane as they roll in for processing at United Taconite.

On a unseasonably cold day in northern Minnesota, BNSF 5342 leads a cut of hoppers into the United Taconite property for the loading of pellets. They will then begin the trip to a steel mill in M... (more)