Canadian National Local L562 heads south to Brookhaven as they pass through Beauregard, MS., with IC SD40-3 #6250 leading IC GP40-2R #3107

2 tunnel motors and an SD40-3 ease downgrade with an empty limestone train, bound for the port of Duluth to be loaded with Limestone, which is an ingredient in flux iron ore pellets.

Crossing the river on a nice summer's morning.

2 B&LE tunnel motors and a CN widecab deuce lead some steaming taconite fresh from the mine into Proctor yard.

IC 6251 leads a loaded Limestone train past the Alborn Tavern, with the crossing signal mirroring the OLI insignia on 6251's side.

Dumped out and ready to return to the mine to reload. The sun will set before they depart.

Two very different veterans pull vintage Missabe ore cars.

Rounding the bend with steaming taconite pellets in tow.

IC 6253, CN 5349, DMIR 404 and finally CN 2004 backhaul forty-eight loads of pellet chips and fines down from Minntac after delivering forty-eight loads of limestone to the plant.

After a M.O.W. work window recently expired, three classic EMD SD40-3s with DMIR 408 leading now sits and waits for their turn to enter the CN Missabe Sub to head south while a T-Bird shuttle wi... (more)

With tailings piles towering in the background, a pair of IC SD40-3's and a DMIR tunnel motor head south on the Rainy Sub through Virginia, Minnesota and are about to pass under the Route 169 over... (more)

The afternoon PRS crew takes a loaded Utac train down to the dock.

The BLE pair heads north out of Alborn at a rural crossing with empties bound for Fairlane.

Emerging from the fog, DMIR 406 gets on the throttle coming off the double track portion of the CN Missabe sub as they roll towards Proctor, MN with taconite loads from the U.S. Steel Minntac plan... (more)

A pair of BLEs and a CN motor bring this northbound empty through Bear Trap Curve in a light drizzle.