DMIR SD40T-3 409 leads Fairlane-Proctor train U717 south as its taconite pellets steam during the cool morning temperatures.

A rolling steam bank down the Missabe sub behind BLE 900, CN 5338 and IC 6253 and pulling DMIR/Missabe ore cars loaded up at the United Taconite facility. The exhaust plume is from said facility ... (more)

The R901 job out of Keenan usually has about 5 or 6 cars when they come back and usually come back much earlier in the day but today they have 181 cars total and 7500 feet behind them with 174 san... (more)

Limestone empties are southbound on the Missabe Sub behind BLE SD40T-3s 909, 904 and 906.

U718's train slows for the north switch at Kelsey where they'll head into the siding for a crew change.

Minorca-Proctor train U718 is southbound on the Missabe Sub between Fairlane and Kelsey behind a trio of Bessemer & Lake Erie tunnelmotors.

DMIR 400 leads an empty ore train north on the Missabe Sub.

A Southern Pacific Railroad freight prepares to depart the railroad’s West Colton Yard late in the day. SP SD45T-2 9340, SD45 8956, SD45T-2 9228 and SD40 8443 will have the honors of lifting th... (more)

A trio of BLE tunnelmotors head south with empty limestone train U718.

After a crew change at Kelsey, U718's train departs the siding.

U712's train is at the south end of Alborn with DMIR SD40T-3 409 on the point.

DMIR 409 North leads an empty pellet train on the Missabe Sub at Burnett, MN.

DMIR 409 North leads an empty pellet train on the Missabe Sub between Coons and Alborn.

Along with their normal task of switching the Dyno Nobel facility outside Biwabik, today's R901 Keenan job also had the project of retrieving 174 sand empties from storage on the former Erie Minin... (more)

The last slivers of light illuminate the R901 with it's 732 total axels that are coming off the CN Iron Range Sub and heading south on the CN Missabe Sub at Iron Jct. with sand empties from storag... (more)