Breaking the silence of a still Minnesota landscape, DMIR 408 leads a four pack EMD consist and 145 ore cars at the control point Nugget on the CN Iron Range sub as they continue the trek to Two H... (more)

A trio of dash 8's pass under county road 666 at CN Nugget as they travel thru heavy falling snow on their trip to Two Harbors.

Kicking out carbon to the sky and tugging on the trailing ore cars, IC 6251 and crew continue on towards Two Harbors, MN.

Shortly after loading at the processing plant, an Erie Mining Company train of taconite pellets will get a cooling shower before departing Hoyt Lakes, and sometimes the engines will get a bath as ... (more)

An Erie Mining Company RS-11 with a not-so-pretty chopped nose is awaiting it's turn to bring a load of iron ore to the processing plant.

CN's uniquely built former DMIR ore cars roll through Hoyt Lake on CN's Iron Range Subdivision to Two Harbors, Minn., slicing between a pair of searchlight signals.

A loaded ore train heads for Two Harbors with a fleet of Canadian National EMDs doing the honors. The train is passing searchlight signals still in use on this section of CN's Iron Range Subdivisi... (more)

BLE 909 leads a quartet of SD40s with hot taconite loads in tow through Hoyt Lakes and bound for Two Harbors.

Empty tac cars make their way east behind a recently repainted BLE 900

After meeting an empty train headed for Minntac from Two Harbors, the engineer throttles up DMIR 408 and they begin to pull 144 loaded ore cars from Minntac through Allen Jct. on the journey back ... (more)

A somber day as crew members affix a large American flag to 4211 prior to departing with the last LTV Steel Mining Company ore train to Taconite Harbor. The former Erie Mining property closed in 2... (more)

The Keenan switch job had the rare task today of picking up 6 loads and a switch engine from the idled Mesabi Nugget plant. Steel Dynamics, the parent company of Mesabi Nugget and Mining Resourc... (more)

The definition of a sucker hole. A short train rounds the bend at CN Nugget as the clouds break just enough for a quick shot.

The final moments of the Erie Mining Co. F units in Minnesota begins to unfold as the Keenan Switch races back to it's namesake yard with the last two F units that were left on the property of the... (more)

Four of LTV's former Erie Mining Company S-12 switchers rest in the deadline, never to run again. Some of these ended up on SMS.