An early morning departure out of Proctor now finds this trio of tunnelmotors pulling limestone loads at 0700 thru the yard at Virginia at track speed to climb the hill up the south side of the La... (more)
A trio of dash 8s and 145 cars following along make the run from Two Harbors and are about a half hour away from their destination of loading pellets at the Cliffs owned Minorca mine just north of... (more)
The crew from train A439 sits in the siding at Virginia giving a roll-by to a southbound container train.
A loaded taconite train from the Minntac plant gets a roll-by from the crew of the Keenan local job at Biwabik. The taconite pellets are headed to Two Harbors while the local will do their work a... (more)
Sun filled late summer afternoon and an empty ore train heading for a load time at the mine.
Sunny day along the Missabe.
The snow is falling as an empty for the Minorca mine glides along.
CN 2041 navigates the chicane between Iron Jct. and Wolf along the double track portion of the Missabe Sub.
Not much going on trackside but the sky was full of action as the Northern Lights were dancing.
It was as cold as it looks.
CN 3000 leads an all-rail taconite train down from U.S. Steel's Minntac plant on a nice afternoon.
KCS 5000 leads taconite pellets south on the CN Minntac Sub on a cold winter afternoon.
The Keenan local coming home about to shove into their yard as a northbound stack continues on.
In a winter wonderland comes five hundred ninety-eight axels.
After loading at U.S. Steel's Keetac taconite plant, BNSF 6545 shoves the train through the small town of Keewatin, MN and proceeds all the way back to Kelly Lake, where they will reverse ends and... (more)
