A cold day and hot taconite pellets collide as they mingle on the trip down the CN Missabe sub to Proctor yard.

A cold morning as evident by the heat distortion off the locomotives and the exhaust from the Minntac taconite plant located about 12 miles back.

A little snow is falling as DMIR 409 heads north with limestone loads for the Minorca taconite plant.

Hot pellets from the Cleveland-Cliffs United Taconite plant roll south towards the yard at Proctor on a nice fall day.

Hot pellets from the Cleveland-Cliffs United Taconite plant roll across the big steel bridge over Cloquet river passing below a giant white pine as they keep moving on towards the yard at Proctor,... (more)

CCGX SD40-3 5309 sits patienly outside of Mosaic Potash's Esterhazy facility waiting for it's next assignment.

The Wilson local returns to it's namesake town after working industries between Wilson and the yard at Rocky Mount, NC on a beautiful late January afternoon along the former ACL mainline.

A fresh load of steaming taconite pellets makes its way towards Duluth MN.

QGRY 3334, QGRY 4016 & QGRY 4015 (the latter two recently delivered ex-BNSF SD70MACs) back up to a loaded grain train which will soon be heading towards Quebec City.

While in conversation with an NS employee about Taylor's transition from CP to NS several years ago; irony presents an opportunity.

Taconite bearing rock rounds the bend just south of Iron Jct. MN on a cold but clear winter day.

A few miles into the trip and the steam is rolling off the hot taconite pellets as they travel through the minus 15-degree air on the way back to Proctor, MN.

CN/GTW gray ghost 5950 works a hump job on the East end of Kirk Yard in Gary.

DMIR 404 and IC 6251 are now a set assigned to mine shuttle service from the Cleveland Cliffs United Taconite Thunderbird mine down to their Fairlane plant.

A CSX SD40-3 is in charge of a high and wide load coming down the rold Columbia, Newberry & Laurens Railroad in 2013.