A TBird mine shuttle with a BLE duo as power heads south on a nice spring morning with rock for the plant.
A TBird mine shuttle heads south on a nice spring morning with rock for the plant.
A duo of Bessemer tunnel motors depart Fairlane with a T-bird.
Was nice to see maroon working Proctor yard again. It was a short-lived stint, but it was nice none the less. She's now back working in Canada.
A lengthy ballast train returns off the CN Iron Range Sub here at East Wye after dumping further south down by Two Harbors, MN as CN continues to rehab the route from the mines of the Iron Range t... (more)
Sitting. Waiting. Patience. A work block in between them and their destination is providing a time to sit and relax until things clear up and traffic moves allowing them to move. Eventually.
Coming off the CN Iron Range Sub and now shoving into the CN Keenan yard with a long empty ballast train.
Repainted DMIR 404 leads a T bird South at Wolf.
The last two DMIR units left in Missabe maroon on the CN roster work the E-lead in Proctor.
The gritty face of a taconite hauler.
Loading rock at the mine on a cold spring day.
Preparing to shove back into United Taconite to deliver 45 loads of limestone to the plant for so the pellet making process can continue.
A pair of SD40-3 rebuilds leads a GE C40-8 headed South towards Proctor with a loaded Taconite train out of the Thunderbird mine.
A nice looking yard set sorts out some manifest traffic brought in overnight. CN SD40-2W's 5270 + 5258 & DMIR SD40-3 403 have the honours.
Bad order locomotive will eventually get sold and moved off the property a year later after this photo.
