Northshore Mining's 0700 crew has their pair of SD9043MACs in full dynamic as they descend the 1.5 percent grade toward Lake Superior. The train is skirting the west side of Silver Bay's golf cour... (more)

On a otherwise quiet and tranquil late winter afternoon, NSM 653 breaks that quiet and tranquility momentarily as it and two other SD40-3's chase the sun to the horizon working up hill out of the ... (more)

In the last light of a cold winter's day, NSM 651 pushes hard on a loaded tailings train traveling inland the seven miles from the plant to the tailing pond to unload and then return to the plant ... (more)

A trio of former Alstom SD40's head east through the searchlights in Silver Bay.

A 15-car train of ore tailings clears Highway 61 as SD40-3 651 leads and 653 shoves hard on the steep grade out of the plant. The mining company was working on their normal tailings loadout up on ... (more)

Raw ore to NSM's processing plant is almost at its' destination.

Off to dump tailings.

Burning diesel on the NSM mainline and climbing out of the Lake Superior basin with empties for the mine 47 miles inland at Babbitt, MN.

Pulling through the yard at North Shore Mining's taconite processing plant at Silver Bay we hold while NSM 1235 is about to pull loads around the building and then begin to shove them through the ... (more)

A 30-car tailings train with an SD40-3 on either end (you can see the other unit between the cars on the right) prepares to ease under the loadout at Silver Bay.

Fill'er Up. Two leased GEs take on fuel at Northshore Mining's Silver Bay yard prior to taking 131 empty ore cars back to the mine at Babbitt.

NSM 1235 takes a break from spotting ore loads at the dumper along the shore of Lake Superior.

The early morning departure from the mine at Babbitt and the two hour run to the processing plant at Silver Bay is almost over for these two new leased CREX engines that Northshore Mining is testi... (more)

CREX 1204, CREX 1201, NSM 654 team up their dynamic brakes to ease 150 loads of ore towards the processing plant

NSM 660 a former CN/WC SD40-3 leads a short train up the steep grade from the processing plant back to the yard. This move is seldom seen and even more seldom photographed.