Another train of raw taconite rock from the mine to the plant for processing into pellets to make steel.

Heavy snow falls while a T-Bird taconite rock train makes it's way south after a crew change.

After meeting their counterpart empties at Keenan, CN 2111 gets back on the move with crude ore loads.

A loaded T-Bird heads for processing at Fairlane.

CN 2111 and IC 6250 speed south on main 1 through Keenan, MN with a loaded "T-Bird".

Loaded crude ore proceeds south towards the processing plant at the Forbes (Fairlane), MN.

CN's recent acquisitions meet at Iron

Southbound T-bird heads for Fairlane.

Loaded crude ore train rolls south for the Fairlane processing plant on a pleasant spring day.

Dust flies as two T-Bird raw iron ore trains pass at speed between the mine and processing plant. CN uses pairs of former C&NW GEs in this service, one of the few assignments on the former DM&IR t... (more)

A T-Bird with 120 loads of raw taconite rock takes the switch at north Fairlane and so begins the approach into United Taconite on a snowy Sunday afternoon.

A pair of former C&NW (UP) GEs power a loaded raw ore train across Highway 7 en route to the Fairlane processing plant.

How high's the water, mama? Well, it's eight feet high and risin'. A few days after the historic rain that fell across NE Minnesota, the sun is out and it's business as usual as a T-Bird train c... (more)

A T-Bird train carring raw ore from the mine towards the plant crosses over the yet unfrozen St. Louis river during a snowfall.

A pair of Dash 8's lead taconite rock from the mine to the plant in the midst of the first significant snowfall of the season in northern Minnesota.