After meeting a southbound, this northbound continues it's journey with a final destination at the Minorca mine to load these trailing 135 empty ore cars with taconite pellets.

Black and white in color.

Both of the two remaining DM&IR-painted units operating on home rails where leading ore trains this morning on the Iron Range Subdivision. How often do you see an illuminated class light?

For years mining has taken place in northeastern Minnesota and the DM&IR has served those mines by moving the finished taconite pellet product to the docks of Duluth and Two Harbors, MN where it i... (more)

The snow from winter hangs on into spring as DM&IR 407 leads a nice looking consist south towards Two Harbors with the steaming pellets from the Minirca mine.

It's a good day when you can bag the last Missabe tunnel motor in maroon leading, with sun and steaming pellets trailing. Today was that day. B&LE 900 and DM&IR 407 are along to help out in pull... (more)

A more traditional consist for the former Missabe, before all the Illinois Central units and the bigger CN power came onto the scene. The DM&IR 409, DM&IR 400 and SD38-2 DM&IR 211 pull loads in th... (more)

A classic Missabe consist even if they are all painted into CN colors. DM&IR 409, DM&IR 400 and DM&IR 211 lead pellets from the Minorca mine southward just coming off the Missabe Sub. and taking t... (more)

A neat power set consisting of two SD60Fs sandwiching a C-40-8 rolls their ore train towards Two Harbors during a light snowfall.

A neat power set consisting of two SD60Fs sandwiching a C-40-8 rolls their ore train towards Two Harbors during a light snowfall.

On the last leg of the trip up the Iron Range Subdivision, DM&IR 211 leads the empties back from Two Harbors and will be going to the Minorca Mine for loading again.

Minorca loads head into the sun on a warm fall day led by a matched pair of I.C. Deathstars.

The fresh crew aboard Illinois Central 6252 and 6260 pull their train of taconite pellets from the ArcelorMittal USA Minorca mine through the yard at Virginia, MN and head south for Two Harbors, M... (more)

In a light drizzle CN track crews inspect a switch damaged in a derailment of a loaded ore train north of Two Harbors. The rear 8-10 cars on this train from Minorca derailed and ended up on their ... (more)

Using the 9,000 H.P. to it's fullest, I.C. 6253 pulls 120 ore cars off the former DWP mainline and up the grade into the Minorca taconite plant to load pellets that will in turn head to Two Harbor... (more)