Burning diesel on a cold winter morning.

Moving limestone from Proctor up the CN Missabe Sub heading to deliver at Minntac.

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

An afternoon on duty time out of Two Harbors has the crew passing thru Jones in the early evening as they make their way up to the U.S. Steel plant to load taconite pellets and a nocturnal return ... (more)

Heading south along the CN Iron Range about to fly over the Ramshaw diamond with steaming taconite pellets bound for Two Harbors.

Heading north along the CN Missabe Sub to load taconite pellets at the Cleveland-Cliffs owned United Taconite plant.

About an hour before thunderstorms would arrive on this hot 95-degree afternoon, BNSF 4678 passes by the Kansas City Union Depot with a string of grain cars.

Sitting at what was once the largest passenger and freight station in the world with 32 tracks for service, RPCX 738 and some passenger cars sit on the few remaining tracks that barely see service... (more)

CN 3023 leads limestone up the Missabe sub about to get on the Minntac Sub here at Wolf for the final few miles into the U.S. Steel Minntac plant. Neat to see a CN heritage unit pulling DMIR ore c... (more)

On a 95-degree hot afternoon, a BNSF Z Train heads west by the KC Union Station.

The DMIR 409 leading an empty pellet train up to Minntac to load. The EMD veteran was called into service when one of the Dash 8 units had an issue and was pulled out of the lineup.

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.

They came up from Proctor yard in the middle of the night with limestone loads for the Minntac plant and after dumping said loads they spotted their empties at the rock track and picked up the loa... (more)

Humid enough to create that steaming pellets effect on this early morning departure from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant as they travel back to Two Harbors, MN.

After a mechanical failure to the third member of the typical Dash 8 trio power set used out of Two Harbors, the decision was made to use veteran DMIR 409 to lead a pellet id up to Minntac. She st... (more)