The Duluth ore docks are over 100 years old, but still are put to good use by CN with the daily loading and unloading of trains and boats. Here a 120 car ore train doubles over as the crew get in ... (more)
IC 6251 runs up the Missabe Sub from Proctor to Minntac and kicks up some of the freshly fallen snow, dusting a CN M-343 working on setting out cars for Keenan Yard.
A trio of SD40-3's pulling veteran Missabe ore cars southbound along the Minntac Sub after departing U.S. Steel, Minntac with factory fresh taconite pellets streaming in the cold night air while r... (more)
A pair of IC ore pool SD40-3s lead GE 2104 north with a short 17-car MRF just out of Proctor. The dark clouds from a line of thunderstorms over Lake Superior complement the paint on 6251.
Illinois Central 6251, which is usually in the ore pool service on Minnesota's Iron Range, holds a siding in the CN Virginia yard in charge of a rail train. The irony here may be that the 6251 pr... (more)