Steaming taconite pellets head south while a thunder storm brews along the Missabe Sub.

U717's train is getting up to track speed having departed United Taconite at Fairlane only a few minutes ago.

DMIR SD40T-3 405 gets 141 loads of iron ore on the move out of UTAC at Fairlane, about to enter the Missabe Sub for a run to Proctor.

BLE SD40T-3s 909, 904 and 906 lead a set of limestone empties south on the Missabe Sub at Fairlane.

All still wearing their orange paint, BLE SD40T-3s 909, 904 and 906 charge south with train U718 passing L568's local at Virginia.

DMIR SD40T-3 407 is starting to get pretty rough around the edges since its departure from its home shop at Proctor, MN. Here it is sitting idling between assignments at CN's Symington Yard in Win... (more)

BLE 903 leads ore empties North through virginia.

BLE 903 leads ore empties North through Iron Junction.

BLE 903 leads ore empties North through Biwabik.

The engineer of BLE 904 puts the throttle in the 8th notch and his EMD veterans billow clouds of spent diesel fuel in an effort to accelerate 57 blast furnace trim loads towards Two Harbors.

One rail, two sails. DMIR 404 dumps Minntac pellets on Dock 6, high above the Walter J. McCarthy which was loading nearly 60,000 tons of ore destined for Gary, IN while the CN owned Great Lakes Fl... (more)

The leaves are gone but the EMD's aren't -- for now. 13,000 horsepower sourced from three SD40-types and a solo C40-8 slug up Proctor Hill and around Bachelor's Curve with a load of Minntac limest... (more)

PTC enforcements are never good (from a crews perspective) but a glitch overspeed enforcement just around the corner bought us enough time for the sun to come out, revealing a rainbow above the DM... (more)

The infamous BLE trio of 906, 904, and 909 takes a set of empty limestone down Proctor Hill.

DMIR 408 leads a loaded limestone train passing through Sax along Highway 7 during the heart of golden hour.