Zipping through the S curve at Culver with taconite pellets following along.
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)
Three IC's lead taconite loads about to pass under the Highway 33 bridge at Saginaw as they head to Proctor.
IC 6252 leads taconite loads under the former DW&P main at Munger as they head to Proctor yard.
After the triple set of BLE orange units came the triple set of DMIR 40's and now here's the latest installment of cool things on the former Missabe, the IC 40's in triplicate. IC 6252 leads pell... (more)
After a M.O.W. work window recently expired, three classic EMD SD40-3s with DMIR 408 leading now sits and waits for their turn to enter the CN Missabe Sub to head south while a T-Bird shuttle wi... (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.
The gritty face of a taconite hauler.
Signals to depart the yard and head down to Proctor with taconite pellets out of the United Taconite plant.
A damp and dreary spring afternoon as CN 2040 departs the United Taconite plant with pellets bound for Proctor and ultimately the CN dock 6 at Duluth, MN where they'll be loaded on a boat and head... (more)
Just underway down the CN Missabe sub for a quiet and uneventful trip to the yard at Proctor.
DMIR 400 thunders over the Whiteface River at Kelsey, MN with taconite loads bound for Proctor, MN.
Steaming taconite pellets blend into the fog that's rolling across the yard as IC 6254 begins to pull out of United Taconite and head down the Missabe sub for Proctor, MN.
Under darkening skies, IC 6252 has just departed United Taconite and is underway hauling pellets towards CN's Proctor yard on the CN Missabe sub.
IC 6252 pulling taconite loads slows at N. Kelsey where they will sit and wait for a work block to expire up ahead on the CN Missabe sub.
