Iron ore pellets fresh out of the furnaces of U.S. Steel Minntac's taconite plant steam as they head south for CN's yard at Proctor, MN.

Heading back to CN's facilities at Proctor with iron ore from U.S. Steel Minntac.

Departing with loads of iron ore pellets.

Pulling U.S. Steel made iron ore pellets south down the Missabe Sub for Proctor yard.

The CN Missabe sub has mostly northbound freight headed for Canada and southbound moves from the mines to Proctor yard.

Four EMDs and 145 loads of iron ore headed to Proctor yard on a spring afternoon.

A quad set of EMDs bring Minntac made taconite pellets down the CN Missabe sub, and they are heading for Proctor yard and eventually CN Dock 6.

A quad EMD set, and ore cars loaded up with iron ore pellets, humming along.

Iron ore pellets head south for Proctor yard while freight heads north for Canada seen here along the CN Missabe sub on a nice spring afternoon.

Iron ore pellets head south for Proctor yard on a nice spring afternoon.

Iron ore pellets move south on the CN Minntac Sub at Wolf, MN behind CN 3315 and 3316. These pellets are going to Proctor yard and eventually CN Dock 6 in Duluth, MN for loading onto a boat.

BLE 900 heads south on the CN Missabe sub with taconite pellets for Proctor while a freight heads north for Canada.

A quad set of EMDs bring Minntac made taconite pellets down from the plant and they are heading for Proctor yard and eventually CN Dock 6.

Three IC EMD SD40-3s sound nice as they throttle up after having to stop and wait for some traffic up ahead that has now cleared.

With CN almost exclusively running AC44C6Ms in the ore pool out of both Proctor and Two Harbors, it was nice to hear and see these veteran mighty marble movers called into service to run from Proc... (more)