A trio of EMD's headed south towards Proctor with an loaded ore train.
A cold and early morning departure from Minntac with an empty limestone train back to Proctor, MN.
One of the first snowfalls of the season starts to cover the landscape as this empty limestone train coming from U.S. Steel's Minntac plant starts back down the CN Missabe sub for Proctor, MN.
A northbound limestone train for the Minorca mine makes it's way along the CN Missabe sub at Wolf.
I see some IC at United taconite as IC 6264 pulls 140 loads of taconite pellets out of the yard and head down the CN Missabe sub while IC 6252 in charge of empties to head back to the mine to load... (more)
IC 6264 eases empty ore jennies out of CN's Proctor Yard, bound for the famed Minnesota Iron Range to be reloaded with Taconite pellets.
Coming up from Two Harbors with a few cars of miscellaneous road freight to drop off at CN Keenan yard and then IC 6264 will return back to Two Harbors with a few cars it will pick up.
The crew of this 0700 Proctor switch job have the dynamic brakes howling on their three veteran EMD SD40 products as they fight gravity carefully maneuvering R92181 13 and its heavy train of 132 s... (more)
IC 6264 gets the green signal to head back to Proctor, MN with taconite pellets as IC 6252 will wait for them to clear before heading back to the mine to load more rock.
Three IC SD40-3's pull ore loads south on the CN Missabe sub. on a warm late summer afternoon. It's always nice to find some old EMD's plying the rails in an area where CN has turned to GE C40-8'... (more)
IC 6264 starts the journey from Proctor Yard to the Mesabi Iron Range to load their empty Jennies with Taconite pellets.
Engineer Adamski has taconite loads well in hand as he descends Proctor Hill on a beautiful morning.
There's not much else that tops fresh tree flocking in the north woods of Minnesota. Loads for Two Harbors blast through Fairbanks as they head south.
Student Engineer Adamski has 120 some loads of taconite trailing him as the 0600 PRS screams down Proctor Hill on a beautiful morning.
It's always busy when the largest taconite mine in the U.S. is running at capacity. At this facility, iron-bearing rock called taconite is mined and processed into iron ore pellets. Annual product... (more)
