An empty taconite train is seen returning from Two Harbors on the Iron Range Subdivision. The train is about to cross the former DW&P (now CN Rainey Sub) at the diamond in Ramshaw. The former CNW ... (more)

A Canadian National taconite pellet train is seen dumping loads on 1918-built Dock 6. This historic ore dock is located in Saint Louis Bay on Lake Superior. The train originated at the Fairlane pl... (more)

A taconite pellet train is being unloaded on the famous Duluth Missabe & Iron Range Railroad's Dock 6 in Duluth, MN. As the sun rises at 0700 hrs, the train catches enough light to provide this m... (more)

A quartet of C40-8's have conquered Proctor Hill with a train of Difco's loaded with limestone for Minntac.

A quartet of ex-Chicago Northwestern C40-8's shove to Missabe Junction with limestone loads for US Steel's Minntac Mine. Interlake Steamship Co's "James R. Barker" sits backed onto Dock ... (more)

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)

A trio of DMIR SD40-3's (rebuilt SD45T-2 Tunnel Motors of SP heritage) leads a southbound empty limestone train through the "S" curve at Culver, MN.

A CN crew spots ore cars at ore dock number 6 while a BNSF switch job rolls past underneath. Two vessels from Canadian company Lower Lakes Towing are loading at the dock (Manitoulin and Michipicot... (more)

The world of modernization is closing in on the Ex Duluth Missabe and Iron Range main lines of Northern Minnesota. The DMIR's maroon locomotives that once ruled these rails have transitioned to Ca... (more)

A nice matched set of tunnel motor bodies ease a loaded ore train toward the Fairlane processing plant near Forbes, Minnesota on the former DM&IR. Finding a matched set like this is fairly hard (D... (more)

A trio of EMD's have just dropped a loaded iron ore train on the ore dock in Duluth, Minnesota as the sun rises. The consist is in the process of pulling down past the crossover and will then run ... (more)

DMIR 404 is seen shoving a small ore train onto Dock 6 in Duluth. Just to the right of Dock 6 is the abandoned Dock 5. Back in its hay day, Dock 5 set a record for itself by loading 60 boats with ... (more)

A cut of limestone loads are being shuffled around under Lake Superiors largest ore dock. Three SD40 variants hustle the cars around under the massive structure.

A night switch crew with clean 6013 shoves empty ore cars to the outgoing yard at Two Harbors while Canada Steamship Line's vessel Atlantic Huron loads taconite for Quebec City (overseas export).