With the tail end of the 138 car train still rattling the old Missabe era steel bridge over the Cloquet river, this U-711 pellet train continues it's trip south towards Proctor, MN.
Canadian National EMD SD40-2W No. 5338 and three other classic CN-owned locomotives lead ore empties across the Cloquet River near Burnett, Minn.
Steaming and speeding through Burnett at 1/20th in a vintage DM&IR ore jennie with a load of hot taconite pellets bound for the dock in Duluth. Note the leading (right) truck has a spring that is... (more)
On a clear and cool morning, a taconite train from Minnesota's Iron Range rumbles over the impressive Cloquet River bridge on the way to Proctor, MN.
Detouring due to bridge work on DWP a southbound unit sulpher train was passing Burnett siding running on DMIR track
57 loaded side dumps full of limestone scurry along the Missabe behind a trio of big 60s.
Three tunnel motors lead a train of limestone back to one of the taconite plants.
A loaded ore train from U.S. Steel's Minntac plant in Minnesota to CN's dock at Escanaba, Michigan rolls south at M.P. 25 on the CN Missabe Sub. on a nice late winter afternoon.
A trio of Bessemer tunnel motors (906, 900, 909) roll an empty limestone train south across the Cloquet River. Winter is slowly releasing its grip on Northeastern Minnesota but not quite enough to... (more)
DMIR SD40T-3s 403 and 404 speed north with an empty ore train for Fairlane.
Ore loads head south at Mile 25 of CN's Missabe Sub.
A nice trio of EMDs slalom through the S curves south of Alborn.
A Tunnel and two SD40-2W's roll south towards Proctor in some sweet morning light.
Beautiful code blue conditions with fresh snow as this loaded ore train rumbles across the impressive Cloquet River Bridge.
