A pair of bigger newer non straight air equipped AC GEs move taconite rock in the summer months on this job.

An afternoon on duty time out of Two Harbors has the crew passing thru Jones in the early evening as they make their way up to the U.S. Steel plant to load taconite pellets and a nocturnal return ... (more)

Heading south along the CN Iron Range about to fly over the Ramshaw diamond with steaming taconite pellets bound for Two Harbors.

Heading north along the CN Missabe Sub to load taconite pellets at the Cleveland-Cliffs owned United Taconite plant.

CN C40-8 2032 leads a Southbound ID around the s-curve at Wolf.

Canadian National empty iron ore train U712 heads north through Alborn, Minnesota as it makes its way to Minntac for loading. A C40-8, SD40-2, and SD40-2W power the train as it rolls past an old I... (more)

Repainted IC SD40-3 6253 leads the Rainer local South through the Zim/Sax bog.

CN 3023 leads limestone up the Missabe sub about to get on the Minntac Sub here at Wolf for the final few miles into the U.S. Steel Minntac plant. Neat to see a CN heritage unit pulling DMIR ore c... (more)

B&LE tunnel motor 906 leads the Two Harbors MRF South through Iron Junction.

With 35mins left of sunlight, IC 6251 takes a quartet of SD40 products out of Burnett with limestone loads.

After being shopped for two weeks, to our surprise, we see IC 6251 shove a limestone set underneath I-35. After getting signals, we race up the line to watch the quartet of SD40s crawl uphill in s... (more)

With the demand for light ever increasing, limestone loads crawl into Munger with a quartet of SD40 products, the leader still sporting its Illinois Central paint. After being out of service for t... (more)

Repainted DMIR tunnel motor leads ore loads South into the yard in Proctor.

Repainted DMIR tunnel motor leads ore loads South through Munger.

CN SD60 5419 leads the Southbound Rainer local through Munger.