CN 730 heads back to Largo for another load of crude ore behind C40-8's 2107 & 2111.

Turning off the Missabe sub and approaching United Taconite property with loads of rock for the plant.

Moving from Main 1 over to Main 2, CN 2107 heads back to the mine while passing a mixed freight that's waiting for traffic to clear up ahead on the CN Rainy sub before they can themselves proceed ... (more)

CN 2107 crossing over the St. Louis River.

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.

251’s Last Stand

Although Alco exited the locomotive business in 1969, Canadian subsidiary MLW continued building locomotives for the North American market into the 1980’s. The... (more)

Between snow squalls, CN 2107 leads loaded ore train into Fairlaine.

A trio of Canadian National GE's bring a loaded train down the wye on their way to Hallett.

The CN haulage trains that ran over the BN in the 90's featured some interesting power for me as a young kid. Didn't see alot of Canadian power til these trains started running. Here the westbound... (more)

Under the pending darkness and with light snow falling, an anniversary pair of C40-8's slog 119 ore empties back to the mine from the plant.

15th anniversary sticker; shuttle from Thunderbird Mine to Taconite plant at Forbes (Fairlane)

T-Bird shuttle to United Taconite at Forbes (Fairlane), Minnesota

One hundred forty five classic DMIR ore jennies loaded with taconite pellets made at U.S. Steel Minntac currently southbound on the CN Missabe Sub behind two big GE's heading for Proctor, MN.

With United Taconite temporally in idle mode these C40-8s normally used on raw ore trains to that plant have been seen on other assignments, including limestone trains and moving pellets from U.S.... (more)