Another steaming taconite train loaded at U.S. Steel's Minntac plant make its way south down the CN Missabe sub for Proctor yard on a cold just below freezing temperature morning here in northern ... (more)

Signals to depart the yard and head down to Proctor with taconite pellets out of the United Taconite plant.

Storming up the Missabe Sub passing the now abandoned former DM&IR dispatcher/m.o.w. building at Iron Jct. an IC SD40-3 duo heads back to the mine.

Heading into the United Taconite Fairlane plant with rock from the mine as the sun sets on National Train Day Eve.

As snow falls across the landscape on Easter night, the sound of two SD40-3's in the shape of IC 6254 and IC 6253 rumble by while pulling empties north along the CN Missabe sub.

An empty limestone train from Minntac cruises south past the signal at the south end of the siding in Kelsey, Minnesota on CN's Missabe Sub. A quartet of locomotives powers the train of side dump ... (more)

The thermometer on my truck said -32F and the detector only 3 miles away gave a reading of 3 degrees colder but the frigid temps aren't hindering CN's ore related business on the Iron Range as a q... (more)

Steaming taconite pellets blend into the fog that's rolling across the yard as IC 6254 begins to pull out of United Taconite and head down the Missabe sub for Proctor, MN.

After howling up the grade out of Virginia, MN , IC 6254 steps off the CN Rainy sub and onto the line to the Minorca mine to deliver the daily train of limestone.

Interesting freight move on the former Missabe with 6 units to head back to Proctor.

Getting ready to depart United Taconite for Proctor with fresh baked taconite pellets that will be bound for the dock at Duluth, MN.

Rolling southbound on the CN Missabe sub with 138 loads of taconite pellets trailing behind.

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)

A little bit of everything and all EMD at the same time. Illinois Central, Bessemer and Lake Erie, Illinois Central in death star black and Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range all represented on this... (more)

This days local with a trailing GT GP38-2 has four loaded centerbeams as it heads towards Virginia.