With DMIR tunnel motor 406 leading the way, CN U717 nears the end of its journey to Proctor Yard as it rounds the bend in Adolf, Minnesota at the junction with the Superior Subdivision. Steam waft... (more)

DMIR 406 and sister DMIR 409 pull cars loaded with iron ore pellets through the yard at Biwabik, MN on the way down to Two Harbors, MN and the dock. The pellets came from the idled Minorca mine. ... (more)

DMIR 406 heads up one of the two sets of T-Birds which are both at the north end with the 406 currently loading while a GE set waits their turn.

Catching some of the last rays of sun, DMIR 406 begins to slow down for the left turn into the United Taconite plant with loads from the mine.

A trio of EMDs are leaving the coarse crusher with 94 loads and are about to take the light departing Largo and begin the trip to the plant.

With diesel exhaust and pellet steam filling the air, CN loaded iron ore train U717 cruises south through Grand Lake, Minnesota and approaches the Highway 33 overpass. A pair of DMIR tunnel motors... (more)

A trio of EMD’s work a Duluth dock job

Iron ore pellets southbound from the Iron Range to Proctor yard.

With a train of steaming pellets from the Fairlane Taconite Plant in tow, DMIR 406 leads CN U71781-04 as it slowly makes its way into the yard at Proctor, Minnesota to tie the train down where it ... (more)

U717 comes around the S curve at Culver, MN with DMIR 406 in the lead.

With a load of steaming taconite pellets fresh from the Fairlane Taconite plant in tow, a pair of SD40T-3's and a C40-8 hustle U717 across the Cloquet River in Burnett, Minnesota and head towards ... (more)

After meeting a northbound intermodal core train, CN loaded iron ore train U717 pulls out of the siding at the south end of Coons in Saginaw, Minnesota. Steam wafts off the cars as the freshly bak... (more)

BLE 903 leads train U713 south from Mountain Iron to Proctor, passing through Meadowlands Township, MN at Swenson Road.

Train U717 from Fairlane with loads for Duluth, approaching Norway Ridge Road in Forbes, MN.

Blizzard conditions were forecast. Nailed it. DMIR 406 leads an empty pellet train north along the Missabe sub encountering some blowing and drifting snow along the way.