Twenty before the sun sets on the first day of June, CN 5244 pulls out from under the loadout pocket at United taconite's Fairlane plant with 138 cars of pellets for dock at Duluth, MN while in th... (more)

After departing Proctor and coming down Proctor Hill into Duluth with a train of taconite pellets from United Taconite, the Proctor Road Switch crew has run around the train and prepares to shove ... (more)

A close call and a case where the story is better than the photo. Under pending darkness and with light snow falling the crew onboard CN 5244 sounds the bell and then lays on the horn for the roa... (more)

Freshly made U.S. Steel Minntac taconite pellets head south down the CN Iron Range Sub in heavy snow bound for Two Harbors and the dock.

The first significant snow event of the season is well underway here on Minnesota's Iron Range. U.S. Steel's Minntac plant is still churning out the taconite pellets and the CN crews are still hau... (more)

After loading out at Fairlane, a loaded ore train speeds down the Missabe for Proctor.

As the snow comes down on the northern Minnesota landscape the taconite pellets continue to come down as well from the Iron Range to Proctor to Duluth to a steel mill. Here CN 5244 charges southb... (more)

Thirty years ago on President's Day weekend, the Fraser Canyon in British Columbia received a road closing blizzard. Trains were affected as well with delays in freight movements. This work train ... (more)

A taconite train from U.S. Steel Minntac for Proctor, MN on a snowy Sunday afternoon

The last hour of sunlight brings a golden hue over the Missabe Sub as this northbound ore empty heads west through the tiny town of Munger.

A cold morning makes for some thick fog at daybreak.

The first official below freezing temperature reading of the fall season brings some heavy early morning fog to Minnesota's Iron Range as a train bound for Minntac to load Blast Furnace Trim (BFT)... (more)

Cold weather railroading at it's finest. It's -27 degrees below zero just before sunrise and the exhaust from the plant is hanging over the small yard while the crew is having issues loading their... (more)

Loaded taconite train makes its way into the Proctor yard under 5 inches of fresh wet and heavy snow.

A recent repaint leads an ore train towards Proctor after a heavy wet snow.