DMIR 402 leads an empty taconite train through Aurora, MN.
402 begins its journey downhill, bringing loads to the dock.
A taconite pellet train is being unloaded on the famous Duluth Missabe & Iron Range Railroad's Dock 6 in Duluth, MN. As the sun rises at 0700 hrs, the train catches enough light to provide this m... (more)
The Keenan switch job bringing back a healthy cut of sand cars from out of storage on the former Erie Mining Co. property.
Heading over the Ramshaw diamond, DMIR 402 and DMIR 404 have 181 cars behind them and are about to tie up traffic for a while as they come of the CN Iron Range Sub and cross Highway 7.
The R901 job out of Keenan usually has about 5 or 6 cars when they come back and usually come back much earlier in the day but today they have 181 cars total and 7500 feet behind them with 174 san... (more)
Along with their normal task of switching the Dyno Nobel facility outside Biwabik, today's R901 Keenan job also had the project of retrieving 174 sand empties from storage on the former Erie Minin... (more)
The last slivers of light illuminate the R901 with it's 732 total axels that are coming off the CN Iron Range Sub and heading south on the CN Missabe Sub at Iron Jct. with sand empties from storag... (more)
With dust blowing off the empty ore jennies, DMIR 402 brings them back to the mine for loading on a late winter's afternoon.
DMIR 402 leads an empty ore train north from Proctor back to the mines in the Iron Range. Here in Saginaw, the train cruises past the old DMIR depot
DMIR 402 throttles north on the Missabe after letting a northbound freight go around it at Kelsey siding.
A southbound T-Bird train meets a northbound container train on the double track portion of the CN Missabe Sub.
An empty ore train passes under the DWP mainline at Munger en route to United Taconite's Fairlane plant.
Another one of CN's original heritage units, DMIR 402 along with DMIR 404 and DMIR 408 shove back under the coarse crusher at United Taconite to load.
Taking a turn off the Missabe sub at N. Fairlane, DMIR 402, DMIR 404 and DMIR 408 lead taconite bearing rock loads into the United Taconite property where the plant will make taconite pellets.
