A few leaves hang on defiantly as freshly baked still warm iron ore pellets steam away as they descend down the Minntac sub on a cold Minnesota firearms deer season opener morning.
After loading iron ore, U789 rolls back south going through the S-curve swinging around the corner off the old DM&N grade and onto the former grade of the D&IR at N. Biwabik about five minutes aft... (more)
Still hot and steaming iron ore pellets head for Two Harbors behind two big GE AC44C6M units and 145 ore cars making up 592 axels traveling along as a light mist falls across the area.