A T-Bird train runs down the Missabe Sub. towards United Taconite's Fairlane plant. The operation continues the same today but the Missabe units are no more. Missabe 212 has been repainted into C... (more)
A classic Missabe shot of a maroon pair of DM&IR engines working on a T-Bird train on a cold northern Minnesota winter morning. Both of these units have since been retired by CN.
DM&IR 403 leads 136 loads of iron ore pellets over the St. Louis River bridge after leaving Minntac.
A loaded T-bird train at Forbes MN in late afternoon.
DM&IR 215 rounds the final curve and begins the approach to United Taconite's Fairlane plant with 98 loads of raw taconite for processing.
Nothing screams Missabe like a pair of Illinois Central SD40-2's leading a train from Minntac down the Missabe Subdivision as the iron ore pellets steam away in the cold air of a Minnesota aftern... (more)
One of only a few remaining maroon units on the former Missabe, DM&IR 215 leads a train of 98 empties and 2 idler cars and takes the green signal out of United Taconite and will head back to the c... (more)
B&LE 909, assigned to the former Missabe, leads the MRF down from Keenan bound for Proctor. Some of the goodies bound for Proctor are some nearly sixty year old ore cars that where recently refur... (more)
DM&IR 215 leads a train of raw taconite southbound and will end up at the United Taconite pellet plant.
After leaving United Taconite's Thunderbird crusher DM&IR 210 and I.C. 6260 use their combined horsepower to muscle a train of raw taconite towards the Fairlane pellet plant.
DMIR 215 leads crude ore loads to Fairlane Taconite plant.
Temp read -25 below zero with wind chill much lower as T-bird loads pull into Fairlane Taconite plant.
The Missabe.
Back when the Iron Range was worth shooting... while still possible, much harder today.
