Bring taconite rock from the mine down towards the plant.

The evening sun shines on the Fairlane Taconite Plant in Forbes, Minnesota as a pair of Dash 8's on U73085-04 pull a string a raw ore empties out of the loop track after unloading. Once they get t... (more)

A nice afternoon along the Missabe.

Snow falls and flies around as this train travels back to the mine to reload.

CN 2119 + CN 2112 have a T Bird crude ore train behind them heading from the mine to the processing plant

CN C40-8's 2119 + 2112 shuttle another load of crude rock towards the pellet plant at Forbes.

CN 2119 takes limestone towards Duluth.

After spending the better part of daylight dumping limestone at U.S. Steel Minntac it's now time to head back south to Proctor yard.

A humming and a rumbling down the Missabe sub back to Proctor, MN with limestone empties.

A trio of -8's lead a mostly empty limestone train back to Proctor, MN on a cold and very windy day.

Rounding the bend and coming up on the outside it's CN 2119 passing CN 2180 near M.P. 65.3 on the CN Missabe sub under less than ideal weather conditions. CN 2119 was light power heading to their... (more)

A pair of CN C40-8s lead train R90183 out of Keenan. The train is swinging north at the wye in Keenan to head toward Iron Junction Minnesota.

A pair of Canadian National Dash 8's lead a T-Bird mine shuttle of raw iron ore through Wolf, Minnesota, crossing the intersection of Highway 7 and Kane Road with a grade crossing that cuts a diag... (more)

One of the last T-bird runs of 2017 bring with it bitter cold temperatures. The overnight night low was a cool -27 F but the daylight sun brought the air temp up a bit to -15 for this shot.

CN C40-8 2119 leads a T-bird north through Keenan.