Cutting through the fog on a winter morning.

A pair of bigger newer non straight air equipped AC GEs move taconite rock in the summer months on this job.

As the sun sets on another day, CN 2107 has departed Largo and is the process of tying up vehicle traffic as they cross Highway 7 traveling south with rock from the mine heading to the plant.

Heading south from the mine to the plant with rock that will be processed into taconite pellets.

The taconite pellets go by as they head back to Proctor while the empty T-Bird waits to depart.

Sunny day along the Missabe.

One T-Bird is all loaded up and waiting to depart while the other T-Bird waits patiently for their to load at the crusher. Sitting in the background is North Shore Track Services GP9 115 (former M... (more)

DMIR 408 and BLE 903 move taconite bearing rock from the mine down to the plant on a nice winter afternoon.

Making their way north on the CN Missabe sub.

The pair of dash 8s look good in the winter light.

Coming out of United Taconite and crossing over to Main 1 for the trip back north to the mine to reload.

Asking for and receiving the necessary lights to leave the plant's yard and head back to the mine's course crusher to reload taconite rock before returning and doing it all over again.

Today the snow is falling, the wind is blowing and it's 22 degrees which is a far cry from 48 hours ago when it was sunny and 72. A T-Bird rumbles and rattles the old steel bridge spanning the sw... (more)

Quite the change from forty-eight hours ago when the snow was almost gone and the temperature was 72 degrees with sun. Fast forward and it's 22 degrees with snow falling and the wind is howling as... (more)

A T-Bird mine shuttle train rolls over the swollen Elbow Creek as they south.