Coming down the mountain from U.S. Steel Minntac at m.p. 5 on the CN Minntac sub, CN 2040 leads 145 ore cars filled to capacity on a frost covered afternoon as they head for Two Harbors, MN.
With U.S. Steel continuing to keep idle their Keewatin Taconite plant due to the soft demand caused by the pandemic, they are using their other Iron Range plant, Minntac, to produce pellets for th... (more)
A four pack of IC EMDs scream through South Mt. Iron Minnesota with a load of fresh ore pellets from Mintac bound for Two Harbors.
Leading the pack is an SD40-3 still sporting its Black IC Dea... (more)