Just underway down the CN Missabe sub for a quiet and uneventful trip to the yard at Proctor.

Southbound down the CN Rainy Sub about to cross through the diamond at Shelton Jct. these stacks and auto racks are gliding quietly along behind a SD75I and C44-9W power set.

BLE 906 and DMIR 409 pause and wait for clearance from the mine operations before they shove under the coarse crusher loadout and begin the process of loading.

IC 6253 and sister IC 6254 are paired up to move rock from the mine to the plant to keep Cliffs United Taconite operations humming along. Here they are departing Largo with loads while the snow fa... (more)

BLE 909 leads the way back to Proctor with limestone empties while spring snows fall.

After dropping off an extra crew member at the Keenan Road crossing, twenty thousand tons of taconite pellets begin to leave Minnesota's Iron Range for a trip down to Convent, LA approximately 140... (more)

A train. In the snow.

Pulling off the CN Missabe sub and heading into the United taconite property with rock from the mine with a good-looking pair of DMIR locomotives and 114 DMIR ore cars.

The Keenan local heads through the yard at Biwabik, MN and passes by the still standing DMIR roundhouse on their way to doing some switching at a local blasting company.

After coming down from Ranier, MN L568 shoves into CN's Keenan yard to do some planned work. When the setouts and pickups are done, it's off to Proctor, MN.

After a quick crew change it was time to get the train back underway. The old girls were barking.

Roaring down the double track section of the CN Missabe sub about to hit the single-track portion at N. Fairlane as the trip south back to Proctor, MN continues for this empty limestone train.

Heading through the landscape with some of last remaining snows still visible trackside. Plenty of it the shaded wooded areas but the open spaces susceptible to the warm sun are becoming snow fre... (more)

A nice-looking pair of BLE motors and a long string of 114 ore cars leave the yard track at the United Taconite plant behind and head back to the mine bathed in that warm afternoon light.

DMIR 400 thunders over the Whiteface River at Kelsey, MN with taconite loads bound for Proctor, MN.