With a Dash 8 leading a pair of SD40's, Canadian National U713 rolls south through the bog at Zim, Minnesota as it heads south on the Missabe with a loaded ore train from Minntac bound for Proctor... (more)

A trio of BLE Tunnel Motors heading north with limestone bound for Minorca.

CN 5426 leads a southbound in the early morning at Zim.

An IC sandwich heads southbound in some wild storm light.

Another steaming taconite train loaded at U.S. Steel's Minntac plant make its way south down the CN Missabe sub for Proctor yard on a cold just below freezing temperature morning here in northern ... (more)

CN 2025 leads ore loads South near Zim.

The gritty face of a taconite hauler.

A cold trip across the frozen landscape that is the Zim/Sax bog in NE Minnesota. These still steaming taconite pellets from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant are destined for Convent, LA approximately... (more)

A northbound train from Proctor heads up the CN Missabe sub bound for the United Taconite plant to load the trailing ore cars with marbles on National Train Day Eve.

BLE 906 leads the L567 (Proctor to Ranier) freight north on the Missabe sub with a planned stop at Keenan yard shortly to drop off the trailing unit and do some work before continuing onward.

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

As the early morning sun rises, we are pacing alongside former DMIR Tunnel Motor 408 as it cruises northbound on the Missabe Sub towards Zim, Minnesota with a train of ore empties in tow for loadi... (more)

M347 thunders north on the Missabe Subdivision after having PTC issues. Heavy snow begins to fall, quite the foreign visitor for the Iron Range territory leads. CN 3023, the EJ&E heritage leads th... (more)

A trio of SD40's and old DMIR ore cars loaded to the brim with steaming taconite pellets rolling down the Missabe sub bound for Proctor, MN.

Pellet steam billows off the train of taconite pellets as two DMIR SD40T-3's and an IC SD40-3 cruise south through Zim, Minnesota as they lead U717 towards Proctor.