With the return of the cold weather, CN has resumed using the Difco side dump cars for limestone service to the U.S. Steel Minntac plant. Here a mixed bag of power comes off the Minntac Sub and d... (more)
Steaming taconite pellets blend into the fog that's rolling across the yard as IC 6254 begins to pull out of United Taconite and head down the Missabe sub for Proctor, MN.
This ex. Southern Pacific SD45T-2, rebuilt as an SD40T-3 and now running as DM&IR #405 is passing through Iron Jct., Minnesota with a train of raw taconite ore. They are headed to the Fairlane pe... (more)