With the United Taconite plant and the end of their train in the background, IC 6254 with sisters DMIR 404 and DMIR 409 pull 138 loads of taconite pellets in the old Missabe era ore cars and proc... (more)

CN 6024 running as U-716 north pulls into the United Taconite Fairlane plant at Forbes for the purpose of loading 144 ore cars with taconite pellets before heading back to the yard at Proctor.

After taking about 18 hours to load their train, BLE SD40T-3 900, IC SD40-3 6253 and CN SD40u 6006 head south on the Missabe Sub. While loading at Fairlane, something let go at the load out causin... (more)

Limestone empties head south on CN's Missabe Sub.

Minorca-Proctor limestone empty U718 heads south through Fairlane on CN's Missabe Sub.

A very clean CN SD40-2W 5337 leads an empty limestone train south on the Missabe Sub.

Cutting through the cold winter's air with hot taconite pellets from Minntac bound for Proctor.

The crew of M-341 proudly displays the American flag on the nose of their locomotive as Independence Day is celebrated across the United States.

A trio of EMD power lead 136 cars of pellets south down the CN Missabe Sub for Proctor on a clear winter day. It looks like these EMD's days are numbered as CN has began replacing these older EMD... (more)

CN 2119 takes the switch into the Fairlane taconite plant with loads of rock from the mine.

DMIR 409 rumbles south on the CN Missabe Sub after departing U.S. Steel Minntac. They will encounter several northbound CN freights along their way back home to Proctor, MN and the yard.

It's minus 25 below zero and the sun is not quite above the trees yet but a road crossing provides enough of a clearing to illuminate the head end of this T-Bird train as it makes it's way south f... (more)

Zero dark thirty and a minus 26 degrees air temperature as the engineer pulls empties up to the signal to wait for his conductor to drive up and climb into the warm cab where they will tone up the... (more)

Deceiving winter afternoon sunlight bathes a T-Bird train as it travels between the mine down to the plant. Yes, its sunny but it's still below zero cold.

From The Land Of Sky Blue Waters. A T-Bird train travels from the mine to the plant on a cold morning in northern Minnesota.