No getting up at before the sun, no standing in lines, no coupons, no traffic (except for trains), no crowds, no masks. Black Friday CN style with IC 6251, one of the original heritage units, lea... (more)

A trio of former DMIR units pull these 114 DMIR cars down the Missabe sub passing this deer stand along the way.

A nice late fall afternoon and 3 matching former DMIR engines with 114 DMIR ore cars are hauling rocks to the plant from the mine.

CN 2131 cuts through the heavy snow that's falling across northern Minnesota.

Running down the CN Missabe sub with three IC units leading DMIR ore cars on a nice late fall afternoon.

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.

DMIR 404, DMIR 408 and IC 6252 pull 114 cars of taconite rock south down the Missabe sub at Wolf headed for the United Taconite plant to make into taconite pellets.

DMIR 408, DMIR 404 and DMIR 402 pull 114 cars of taconite rock south down the Missabe sub for the United Taconite to make into taconite pellets.

IC 6252, IC 6251 and IC 6261 lead raw taconite down the Missabe sub through the small community of Iron Jct., MN coming from the mine heading towards the United Taconite processing plant at Forbes... (more)

DMIR 402, DMIR 404, and DMIR 408 (yes three former DMIR tunnel motors together pulling vintage DMIR ore cars in 2020) lead raw taconite down the Missabe sub from the mine heading towards the proce... (more)

The first snow of the season falls across northern Minnesota as a T-Bird train hauls 112 cars of taconite rock south towards the plant.

A TBird mine shuttle train with two veterans providing the power in the form of IC 6255 and DMIR 404 and a string of old DMIR ore cars following along passes through Wolf on the return trip to the... (more)

It seems that lately the CN power desk has been assigning anything and everything for power on the T-Bird job. Today is this pair of GE ET44AC units ( CN 3023, CN 3042) this spring and winter was... (more)

The latest pair to the CN ore pool are these two ES44AC units replacing a pair of Dash 8's. Here they are after a crew change waiting for the mine to green light them allowing them to shove back u... (more)

A CN crude ore train using two BNSF horsepower payback units pulls 118 cars south towards the Fairlane plant and meets it's empty counterpart with two CN Dash 8's heading back to the mine at the h... (more)