Rolling south along the CN Missabe sub as the sun sets. That plume on the horizon is the U.S. Steel Minntac plant where this train originated about an hour or so previous.
Heading back to Proctor traveling down the CN Missabe Sub.
Hot taconite loads in the pre-dawn cold air.
Coal and corn. Apparently still a 20-cylinder, this leaser has picked up a train of empties from INRD at Beehunter and is running SB on trackage rights. They will soon gain home rails at the jun... (more)
A chilly -10F morning finds the light of a lantern briefly illuminating the nose of 409 as a waning crescent moon rises in the sky above.
After loading and departing United Taconite, it was a nice run to the siding here at Alborn were they had to wait on three northbounds to pass and clear before getting back underway for Proctor ya... (more)
Lancaster and Chester Train 12 has just picked up some cars from LC 12 and is now heading to Richburg to work the various industries there. With all of the changed I have seen on the L&C in 25 yea... (more)
The elements all lined up for a spectacular show of steam on the CN U717 loaded taconite pellet train as it departed Fairlane Pellet Plant on the way to Proctor. The right negative degree tempera... (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)
IIRC this is the train that brought all the boys to the yard. A trio of BLE tunnels sit in the siding at the former DWP yard at Virginia with their train of limestone loads after a trip to the Mi... (more)
The Keenan switch job bringing back a healthy cut of sand cars from out of storage on the former Erie Mining Co. property.
A cold morning as evident by the heat distortion off the locomotives and the exhaust from the Minntac taconite plant located about 12 miles back.
A little snow is falling as DMIR 409 heads north with limestone loads for the Minorca taconite plant.
The red nose of CN amongst the yellows and oranges of fall foliage.
Typical fall day across northern Minnesota except for the trio of BLE's adding a little color.
