The lead unit of a loaded Herzog ballast train rumbles and rattles the steel bridge over the St. Louis river as they head north on the CN Missabe sub.

Southbound taconite rock loads from the mine heading to the processing plant meet a loaded ballast train heading north while both rattle the steel bridge over the St. Louis river on the CN Missabe... (more)

A pair of CN C40-8's lead raw iron ore train U730 as they come off the Missabe Sub on to the lead into the Fairlane Taconite Processing Plant.

A CN SD40-2W leads U714 through the North Fairlane control point on the Missabe Sub with a train of empty side dump cars to be loaded in Duluth.

A CN barn leads CN U730, a train of empty side dump cars, through Forbes, Minnesota towards Duluth where the cars will be loaded with limestone for Minntac.

DMIR 405 and two CN SD40-2W's are just completing loading of their train or iron ore taconite pellets at the Fairlane Processing Plant. Once loading is complete the train will be recrewed for its ... (more)

Crude iron ore train U730 comes around the bend in Forbes behind a C40-8 as it heads towards the Fairlane Processing Plant.

Ridiculously cold weather (-34 plus a wind chill at the time of this photo) across northern Minnesota as polar vortex envelopes the region but the trains are still moving albeit it takes a little ... (more)

CN installed this equipment and it's designed to detect uneven track (soft spots) that might cause loaded ore cars to derail. There is this old ore car that works out of Proctor and a new car wit... (more)

After just departing United Taconite in the frigid -15 degree weather, IC 6251 charges down the former DMIR trackage with ore loads destined for the docks of Duluth, MN. IC 6251 still wears its or... (more)

After making the trip north from Proctor, IC 6251 leads another IC SD40-3 and a CN-painted, DMIR tunnel motor into the United Taconite loadout at Fairlane.

Running south on the CN Missabe sub back to the yard at Proctor with a string of empty DMIR Difco side dumps that were used to deliver limestone to the U.S. Steel Minntac plant at Mountain Iron, M... (more)

After loading their train, BLE 900 takes the signals out of the yard at United Taconite to enter the CN Missabe Sub for the trip back to Proctor, MN.

Loaded out with 138 cars of steaming taconite pellets behind them, the conductor dials up RTC to ask for signals off the running track at United Taconite to head back to Proctor down the CN Missab... (more)

With the United Taconite plant and the end of their train in the background, IC 6254 with sisters DMIR 404 and DMIR 409 pull 138 loads of taconite pellets in the old Missabe era ore cars and proc... (more)