With U.S. Steel continuing to keep idle their Keewatin Taconite plant due to the soft demand caused by the pandemic, they are using their other Iron Range plant, Minntac, to produce pellets for th... (more)
A four pack of IC EMDs scream through South Mt. Iron Minnesota with a load of fresh ore pellets from Mintac bound for Two Harbors.
Leading the pack is an SD40-3 still sporting its Black IC Dea... (more)
CN 2948 comes around the bend from U.S. Steel Minntac with the first seasonal loads of BFT (blast furnace trim - crushed raw taconite) for CN-Hallett Dock 5 in Duluth. The train brought up car lo... (more)
Perhaps the first Minntac BFT train to run this season but unlike previous years, BFT is now being routed through CN-Hallett Dock 5 instead of Dock 1 in Two Harbors. This train brought limestone l... (more)
Descending from the USS Minntac plant with 130 loads of pellets the CN crew is heading for CN Keenan yard with this BNSF all-rail train that is going to a final destination at Granite City Works b... (more)