Loading crude ore at Largo
DMIR SD40T-3 400 and CN C40-8 2107 roll through Iron, MN with crude ore empties for the Thunderbird Mine.
More snow for northern Minnesota! An empty BFT (Blast Furnace Trim) train with the very old DM&IR regular side ore cars rolls north on the Iron Range Sub about to cross the Ramshaw Diamond with t... (more)
Morning roadswitch eases ore loads down Proctor Hill for Duluth.
The morning roadswitch eases 58 empty limestone cars down the ramp to Missabe Junction.
DMIR 400 and an ex IC SD40-3 head 18 loads through Iron Junction.
Racing south. This is my first attempt at a pace shot. I like the results. Thanks to Christopher Muller (driver) for making this shot possible. Shot with a shutter of 1/40 and f/25.
Three units power a train of new ore cars through the woods of northern Minensota.
DM&IR 400,193,206 head 40 empties south at Iron Junction.
My 2008 photography draws to a close with a clean 400 leading CN 6262 and B&LE 909 and 29 limestone loads as they clear the plant at Collingwood.
PRS starts its trip down Proctor Hill with empties to be filled with limestone for Minorca taconite pellet plant.
DMIR 400 + 408 + 409 lead Limestone empties in to Proctor yard.
Empty limestone headed back to Proctor.
The morning Proctor Roadswitch crew uses three former Missabe tunnel motors that just arrived on a limestone empty to move ore loads to Dock 6 in Duluth. The front door is open despite a chilly m... (more)
Three matched former DM&IR tunnel motors arrive back in Proctor with an empty Minntac limstone train.
