Another T-Bird has begun loading at Thunderbird Mine at Largo. 100 cars of raw iron ore will be loaded into this train for the 10 mile trip down to the plant at Forbes for processing. 2 trains run... (more)

On a rainy day the T-Birds keep moving back on forth between Fairlane and Largo moving raw iron ore over the Missabe Sub. Here the empty train heads north on main one between North Keenan and Iron... (more)

Although not rare, it is quite unusual to catch both of the B&LE tunnel motors assigned to the Missabe on a train together without a CN-painted unit in the consist. Here 903 and 909 lead an empty... (more)

With 78 loads or ore in tow, a southbound XB Turn crosses the Allegheny River Bridge.

A light snowfall dusts DM&IR shop forces at Proctor as they pose on the first (of four) rebuilds they did for sister railroad B&LE. Proctor rebuilt 907-910 for the B&LE using kits from Boise. To... (more)

901 heads southbound through Fredonia with ore on a warm March afternoon.

After delivering what is not frozen in the bottoms of the cars, this limestone extra heads back south from U.S. Steel's Minntac plant to Proctor.

6:38 pm: B&LE 908 leads hoppers southbound over the Osgood Viaduct and the NS Meadville Line. They had to cut their train in half at KO 7 because something was wrong with 907 and they had to shut ... (more)

Loade crude ore train from Thunderbird North to Fairlane rolls south in -4F temps.

While the dust from the freshly mined and coarse crushed taconite rock rolls off the cars, this T-Bird train heads south bringing that raw taconite to the processing plant on a cold Minnesota afte... (more)

A set of empty crude cars departs the plant behind the B&LE 903 under clear blue skies brought on be 7 below zero temps.

A crude ore train makes it's way from the mine to the processing plant at Forbes, MN this was shot at the the high temp of the day, 5 below zero.