A loaded T-Bird train is half way to Fairlane on their short trip from Largo to Fairlane. 2 T-bird trains run many time a day between the Thunderbird Mine at Largo and the Processing Plant at Fair... (more)

Pairs of ex-CN&W Dash 8's are keeping the T-bird service moving around Keenan. Here both sets are at Largo, as one finishes loading, and the 2nd one wait for it's turn. T-bird trains move raw iron... (more)

Pairs of ex-CN&W Dash 8's are keeping the T-bird service moving around Keenan. Here both sets are at Largo, as one finishes loading, and the 2nd one wait for it's turn. T-bird trains move raw iron... (more)

T-Bird empties pass by the Missabe searchlights at Fairlane, powered by a standard cab Dash 8 and a Tunnel Motor.

T-Bird loads head south with a standard cab Dash 8 and a Tunnel Motor.

The Keenan Switch handles 19 cars of iron nuggets through the appropriately named "Nugget" control point.

The snow has subsided but now the cold wind is blowing in from Canada and the temperature is dropping quickly giving the photographing of a U-730 with a relatively clean, matched pair of anniversa... (more)

Battle of Light. The signals at Noimi Jct. battle to protect the CN Minntac Sub from an oncoming train. The signals won and the train headed up the CN Missabe Sub.

After loading the train, the crew sits back and enjoys the last rays of sun while they wait for the work block on the Missabe Sub to expire.

A pair of Dash 8 CN Anniversary units provide a little color to an otherwise gloomy northern Minnesota November afternoon.

Recrewing at Shelton Junction, after loading at United Taconite are a pair of standard cab C40-8s.

A T-Bird crew change is taking place at Shelton Jct. / Largo after loading at United Taconite. On the right side is the Laurentian Aggregates rock crushing operation with it's GP9 visible and the ... (more)

CN 2112 is all loaded out and a new crew has arrived to keep the ore moving from United Taconite north Fairlane crusher to their processing plant 10 miles away. This mine, some of which is in the... (more)

Heavy snow falls as the first crude ore train from United Taconite's new south pit arrives at the Fairlane processing plant. Disclaimer: Happy April 1st. Just an usual move captured. No new pit o... (more)

Heavy snow falls as the first crude ore train from United Taconite's new south pit arrives at the Fairlane processing plant. Disclaimer: Happy April 1st. Just an usual move captured. No new pit ... (more)