A week ago it was 10 degrees and snowing, today it was 70 degrees and sunny. The snowmelt was fast this spring across NE Minnesota and took less than a week so the rivers are high and moving fast... (more)
Leaving the mine and heading to the processing plant with taconite rock.
A T-Bird has pulled up and called the CN RTC desk looking for lights to leave the plant and head back to the mine to reload. Seems to be lights all around.
Before departing back to the mine to reload, DMIR 400 has to wait for a pellet loader out of Proctor to clear first.
A cold morning as evident by the heat distortion off the locomotives and the exhaust from the Minntac taconite plant located about 12 miles back.
Taconite bearing rock rounds the bend just south of Iron Jct. MN on a cold but clear winter day.
DMIR 404 and IC 6251 are now a set assigned to mine shuttle service from the Cleveland Cliffs United Taconite Thunderbird mine down to their Fairlane plant.
A pair of anniversary Dash8's lead a mine shuttle train south down the CN Missabe sub.
Matched Dash 8's pull rock loads from United Taconite's Thunderbird north pit down the Missabe sub and will soon be making the left turn to deliver into United Taconite's Fairlane plant property.
Bring taconite rock from the mine down towards the plant.
A fog and frosty last day of 2022 as a matched pair of anniversary dash 8's move taconite bearing rock from the mine to the plant.
A nice afternoon along the Missabe.
Snow falls and flies around as this train travels back to the mine to reload.
Heavy snow is falling as CN 2107 approaches the road crossing at Highway 7.
It was a nice peaceful wait for the train to cross over the river.
