DMIR 401 and 409 motor south through Iron Junction on a loaded T-Bird. This was just 3 months before the 401 was totaled in a head-on-collision near Two Harbors.
I was told that DMIR 212 had been working Two Harbors for quite some time, but when I was at Iron Junction it had been stuck onto a T-Bird. Even though it is no longer maroon and gold, it is still... (more)
On this trip the T-Bird trains met at Iron Junction as seen by all the dust as the rear end of the load disappears. These 2 train sets work daily moving raw iron ore for United Taconite from their... (more)