This loaded Minntac pellet train leans hard into the curve at Iron Junction on it's way to Two Harbors.

The DMIR 408 and IC 6259 make their way south towards Fairlane with a loaded crude ore train in the waning light of the first day of January.

The cold air (-7 C) combined with the freshly loaded pellets combine to create a rolling fog bank that obscures everything behind the fifth car.

In a now classic scene of flying snow, singing rails and steaming taconite, DM&IR 407 and 408 head downgrade, full dynamics whining, toward Two Harbors, Mn. Forcasting the train's arrival, the we... (more)

DM&IR 400,193,206 head 40 empties south at Iron Junction.

DM&IR 403 puts on a little smoke show for the EJ&E 674 sitting in the shadows at Allen Jct.

Ore loads from Minorca roll through Highland in a sea of white.

Ore loads from Minorca roll south through Fairbanks behind the only repainted Missabe SD38-2. A Minntac empty waits in the siding.

Ore loads from Minntac roll south through Fairbanks in a heavy snow as an empty waits in the siding for its turn to head north.

As light snow falls and empty limestone train passes by a stopped A-438 at Adolph, just north of Proctor. Duluth/Proctor received two feet of snow between Christmas Eve and this morning.

DMIR 166, WC 588 westbound with 30 cars. The SD9 is paying back horsepower hours for WC units working ore trains on the DMIR.

Loaded ore train from United Taconite rolls south towards Proctor.

Cold, but clear!

With an air temp of -10F this loaded taconite train rolls south at 30 mph towards Proctor as steam from the freshly baked pellets cascades off the ore cars and creates a moving cloud.

With an air temp of -10F this loaded taconite train rolls south at 30 mph towards Proctor as steam from the freshly baked pellets cascades off the ore cars and creates a moving cloud.