A pair of anniversary Dash8's lead a mine shuttle train south down the CN Missabe sub.

Taconite pellets move south for Two Harbors passing through the different colors of the changing seasons.

Skirting the city of Virginia, MN while coming down CN's Rainy Sub after delivering limestone to the Minorca Taconite facility three BLE's are heading back to Proctor yard still a few hours away y... (more)

Hauling taconite pellets down from United Taconite on Minnesota's Iron Range to Proctor yard with three IC's.

Matched Dash 8's pull rock loads from United Taconite's Thunderbird north pit down the Missabe sub and will soon be making the left turn to deliver into United Taconite's Fairlane plant property.

After working the rod and ball track at United Taconite it was then a straight shot up to work the commercial yard at the Minntac taconite plant and now it's time to head back to Keenan yard.

A trio of BLE's (BLE 900, BLE 903, BLE 909) make their way back to the yard at Proctor after delivering and dumping limestone up at the Minntac taconite plant.

After dumping limestone at Minntac, a trio of BLE's come down from the plant with their train in tow.

Bring taconite rock from the mine down towards the plant.

Oil cans roll down the Rainy Sub late afternoon on New Year's Eve.

Humming along through a winter day with the yard at Two Harbors the destination for these steaming taconite pellets.

Taconite pellets bound for Two Harbors make their way along the Missabe sub and will very shortly make the left turn onto the Iron Range sub for the remainder of the seventy-four-mile trip into to... (more)

About a half hour after the sun set for the day, DMIR 400 is pulling up and out from the plant with its train of steaming marbles in tow while CN 2107 rounds the bend after dumping its train of ta... (more)

After a brief pause to allow the passing of a southbound container train on the Rainy Sub at the Ramshaw diamond, it's back on the move again along the Iron Range sub for this U790 going to load t... (more)

A black and white landscape with some CN red passing through hauling steaming pellets down from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant bound for Two Harbors.